PLoS Track at ISMB/ECCB 2007
posted 20 Nov 2006
***PLoS Track Submissions to ISMB/ECCB 2007 is Now Closed***
**PLoS Track Submission Site**
The Public Library of Science, through the official journal of ISCB, PLoS Computational Biology, is pleased to offer the PLoS Track at ISMB/ECCB 2007. The PLoS Track will consist of oral presentations of work of exceptional scientific merit, which focuses on the application of computational methods to solving problems of biological significance. A one page abstract of the work to be presented (including figures and references) will be reviewed by session chairs drawn from the PLoS Computational Biology Editorial Board (http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/edboard.php), the ISCB Board (http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/board.shtml) and the computational biology community.
Chairs will seek work which is scientifically novel and appeals to a broad audience of computational biologists and biologists. We are particularly interested in topics that expand the scope of what has traditionally been presented at ISMB conferences, and in work leading to important biological conclusions. Presentations should include original work that is unpublished or published after 1 April, 2007.
Approximately 40 abstracts will be accepted and made available on the PLoS Computational Biology and ISMB/ECCB 2007 web sites as personal communications (in order to not preclude publishing the work elsewhere). One author of each successful abstract must be available to orally present the work at ISMB/ECCB 2007.
Please note that you will be asked to upload a 1-page PDF abstract. Please see our sample abstract (PDF 88 KB) and sample abstract (MS Word 150 KB). Note that including figures is encouraged.
The submission deadline is April 6, 2007. Further details of scientific themes will be forthcoming. Scope and themes will match those of PLoS Computational Biology and beyond.
PLoS Track Deadlines
December 1, 2006 — Call for Abstracts opens
April 6, 2007 — Abstracts Submission Deadline
May 6, 2007 — Abstract Acceptance Notification
PLoS Track Chairs
Barb Bryant (Chair), PLoS Comp. Biol. Deputy Editor in Chief
Steven Brenner (Co-Chair) PLoS Comp. Biol. Founding Editor
Philip Bourne (Co-Chair) PLoS Comp. Biol. Editor in Chief & Founding Editor
PLoS Liaison
Catherine Nancarrow, PLoS Publications Manager
Area | PLoS Chairs |
Ecosystems and Ecology | Judith Cushing, Evergreen State College, judyc@evergreen.edu Barbara Eckman, IBM Software Group, baeckman@us.ibm.com |
Systems Biology and Networks | Chris Sander, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, sanderc@mskcc.org Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, miyano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Health and Disease | Marco Punta, Columbia University, mp2215@columbia.edu Maricel Kann, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NIH, kann@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
Regulation | John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, j.mattick@imb.uq.edu.au M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk |
Protein Structure and Function | Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, thornton@ebi.ac.uk |
Neuroscience | Lyle Graham, Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS, lyle@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr |
Multiscale Modelling | Edmund Crampin, University of Auckland, e.crampin@auckland.ac.nz |
Evolution | Siv Andersson, Uppsala Universitet, siv.andersson@ebc.uu.se |
Population Genetics and Variation | Doris Bachtrog, University of California, San Diego, dbachtrog@ucsd.edu Hua Tang, Stanford School of Medicine, huatang@fhcrc.org |
Genomics | Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego/Scripps Institute for Oceanography, tgaasterland@ucsd.edu |