ISMB/ECCB 2013 Call for Special Sessions, Proceedings, Tech Track
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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues, and Past ISMB and ECCB Conference
Attendees,
Following this year's separate and highly successful ISMB in
Long Beach, California, and ECCB in Basel, Switzerland, we are pleased to
announce these calls for participation for next year's joint
ISMB/ECCB 2013, taking place July
21-23 in Berlin, Germany.
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Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be
accessed here <<
The Special Sessions run throughout the
ISMB/ECCB conference in parallel to all other tracks. Specifically, Special
Sessions are sought on "hot topics" of emerging themes that most attendees are
not currently approaching with desired proficiency. Proposals should be of
topics not covered in previous Special Sessions at ISMB or ISMB/ECCB meetings,
but that nonetheless importantly influence bioinformatics and computational
biology. If you are interested in organizing a Special Session at ISMB/ECCB
2013, please link to the details of the call and submission form above, and be
sure to submit your proposal by the October 26th deadline.
>>
Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be
accessed here <<
Submissions are also being solicited for
the Proceedings Track. These are original research papers that, if selected,
will be presented as talks and published in the conference proceedings in an
open access, online-only section of a regular issue of Bioinformatics. Papers
should be submitted in their final form; poor quality submissions or
insufficiently prepared papers are very often rejected. ISMB Proceedings result
in fully citable articles, indexed by Medline and ISI. We encourage you to
submit an unpublished paper of your very best work for consideration by January
7th.
>> Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be accessed here <<
The Technology Track provides an
opportunity for organizations to showcase their software and/or hardware that is
relevant to the bioinformatics-molecular biology community. To apply for a
Technology Track presentation slot, organizations must complete an online form
by April 26th. Accepted Tech Track applicants are required to make a payment
based on the organization's status as a non- or for-profit enterprise. This
payment is in addition to the conference registration fees required of all
attendees, including presenters in each of the parallel tracks.
On behalf
of the ISMB/ECCB 2013 Steering and Scientific Organizing Committees, we look
forward to seeing you in Berlin next July!br>
Sincerely,
Michal
Linial, Special Sessions Chair
Nir Ben-Tal, Proceedings Track Chair
Rodrigo Lopez, Technology Track Chair
December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
Dear ISCB
Members and Colleagues,
The 10th
Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is now less than two months
away. Over the last decade this conference series has grown into an
international program with a spotlight on regional development in the
computational biosciences. Invited and accepted presenters represent a broad
spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and
medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know
your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find
synergies that can drive our field forward.
EARLY REGISTRATION DATE IS APPROACHING: Be sure to take
advantage of early registration rates while they last. If you are not a current
member consider joining ISCB now
for immediate additional savings on your conference registration to this and any
other ISCB conference. Please note that accepted presenters must register at
applicable conference attendee rates by November 6 in order to give a
presentation at Rocky 2012.
Register Here Now
Early Registration Deadline: November 8,
2012
ACCOMMODATIONS SELLING OUT: The
conference has moved to the new Viceroy Snowmass Hotel this year. A special
group rate has been negotiated for Rocky 2012 attendees: $105 single or $140
double occupancy, plus tax. As rooms are booking up fast be sure to book yours
before these special rates are no longer accessible. You must enter the group
code of Rocky2012 to secure rooms at the special rate (if linking to the online
hotel booking form from the conference website, double check that the correct
code auto fills - if it fills as ISCB2012 please manually correct it as that
code is an error and may not result in presenting the deeply discounted group
rate).
Access Full
Hotel Details Here
Until November 8th the Rocky conference offers a special Academic Retreat
package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free
student registration. Forward this invitation to your colleagues and
collaborators and come for a lab retreat in addition to attending for the great
science and networking.
We look forward to your participation!
Sincerely,
The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team
Nomination deadline: November 30, 2012
ISCB's annual awards are the most prestigious international awards designated
exclusively to researchers in the field of computational biology/bioinformatics,
and you are invited to submit nominations for the 2013 Overton Prize and the
2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award.
The Overton Prize is awarded to an early career scientist, generally within ten
years post-degree, and the Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award is in
recognition of highly significant, long-term career achievement. The winners of
both awards will deliver keynote talks at ISCB's annual meeting,
ISMB/ECCB 2013, in Berlin,
Germany.
Nominations from all regions of the world are encouraged, and the selection of
award winners will be made by an international panel of current and past members
of the ISCB Board of Directors. The nomination form, list of past winners with
links to their bios, and a link to the full policies and procedures of these
ISCB awards, are all accessed at the above URL.
Please consider nominating your highly accomplished peers and senior researchers
who have helped to advance our field in significant and meaningful ways, and
then proceed to the nomination form to ensure they are considered for these
prestigious awards.
Thank you,
Alfonso Valencia
Chair, ISCB Awards Committe
November 12-15, 2012
Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay
Redwood
City, CA
Early registration closes on Friday, October 12th,
for the fifth annual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and
Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges.
Register now to take
advantage of reduced registration rates.
We are happy to announce
that the conference
agenda is now available online. Any changes to the program between now and
the conference will be made a quickly as possible.
Over four days, the
meeting will feature 15 keynote talks, additional lectures, poster sessions, and
discussion of the results of this year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering
Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a project designed to identify best practices
for predicting the structure of biological networks. Best performers from this
year's DREAM challenges will have an opportunity to present their methods.
Keynote
speakers include:
For more information about the conference,
please visit the
conference website.
We look forward to seeing you in the
Bay Area!
Conference Chairs,
Andrea Califano - Columbia University
Manolis Kellis - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sylvia Plevritis -
Stanford University
Gustavo Stolovitzky - IBM
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
The ISCB Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs. With an expanded scope that includes the emerging field of data science, CSHALS 2013 should be part of your plans for 2013!
Topics covered by CSHALS 2013 span the continuum between standards development and big data workflows - the scope between Life Science data representation and its analysis. To find out more about CSHALS topics follow the link here.
This is YOUR invitation to participate:
>> CALL FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS IS NOW OPEN <<
Call for Oral Presentations closes November 30, 2012
Call for Poster Abstracts closes January 11, 2013
Conference registration will open at the end of October. We look forward to your participation!
Sincerely,
The CSHALS 2013 Organizing Committee
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Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
A reminder that submissions for the ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics are now being accepted. This is the third joint meeting of ISCB and ASBCB, and takes place from March 13th -15th in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting will include topics of general interest in bioinformatics, with a special focus on the bioinformatics of African pathogens, vectors, and human genetics. We especially welcome abstracts on the bioinformatics of diseases relevant to Africa, and with the new Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative the genetics focus is particularly relevant and timely.
Submissions of papers are due by October 24th, and poster abstracts are due by December 12th. Please visit the conference submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper or poster today.
Pre-conference optional events are planned for March 11th and 12th, including a variety of Training Workshops and Tutorials such as EBI Roadshow training, EMBnet eBioKit workshops, LIRMM and EMBL instructor-led introduction to Phylogeny, and a full day session on deep sequencing. For more details on these events please check the conference website frequently to watch for updates as they become available.
A limited number of travel fellowships will be made available to students from African research institutions. Additionally, a grant proposal has been submitted to a U.S. agency that, if awarded, would help fund American students to attend. Information on eligibility and application procedures will be posted to the conference website as soon as full details are known. Early registration will be offered at discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy significant savings.
Don't delay in submitting your paper or poster (or both!) today. We hope to welcome you to Tunisia in March!
Yours sincerely,
Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair
Dan Masiga
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Program Committee Chair
Sept 27, 2012 - How Open is it? The Official PLoS blog invites feedback on accuracy and completeness of how Open Access is defined.
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centersin a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.
Submit your Highlights Paper today: We invite the submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers within the last 12 months (between August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012) on topics including, but not limited to: computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology. Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a co-author to make the presentation).
Poster abstracts in the same topic areas as Highlights are also invited. Please submit your poster directly to the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site.
ISCB members and BGI staff are eligible for special conference registration discounts. All accepted paper and poster presenters must register and pay to attend the conference. If you are not a current ISCB member, consider joining today for instant benefits including discounted registration to this conference.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to Shenzhen in December,
Victor Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair
Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair
