CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, and NOMINATIONS - RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

Dear colleague,

We are still accepting submissions of papers and abstracts for the 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, which is now an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology, and one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.


*** The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012. ***


Submission information is available at http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.

This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation.

Invited speakers include: Howard Chang, Job Dekker, Angela DePace, Joe Ecker, Yoav Gilad, Len Pennacchio, Saurabh Sinha, Stephen Friend, Jonathan Weissman, Dean Felsher, Michael Elowitz, Joe Nadeau, Markus Covert, Joe Gray, and Ernest Fraenkel.

We are now accepting submissions of full-length papers to be considered for publication in Genome Research and the Journal of Computational Biology. Accepted papers will be published in conjunction with the conference and authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work at the meeting. Our program committee will review all submitted papers in collaboration with the journal editors and the conference chairs.

We are also accepting submissions of abstracts, including both original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for publication by a high-impact journal between January 1 and November 1, 2012. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation. Work already accepted for publication will be considered for an oral presentation only.

Lastly, we are also excited to announce that we invite nominations for RegGen-TopTen 2011, our list of the most influential papers of 2011 in the fields of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, in conjunction with the ISMB Special Interest Group on Regulatory Genomics (RegGen SIG). First and last authors of these papers will be honored at the meeting and highlighted online. All nominations will be evaluated by leaders in the field, including our past keynote speakers.

Areas of interest for papers, abstracts, and nominations include:

  • Modeling and recognition of regulatory motifs and modules
  • Chromatin state establishment, maintenance, and role in development
  • Post-transcriptional regulation and small regulatory RNAs
  • Regulatory networks, metabolic networks, proteomic networks
  • Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
  • Phosphorylation, metabolic fluxes, systematic phenotyping
  • Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
  • Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
  • Approaches for aggregation of results arising from different methodologies

We are also still accepting submissions for participation in the DREAM Challenges, designed to identify the best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks.

We hope that you will participate and look forward to seeing you in San Francisco this November!

Best regards,
Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Conference Chairs