If accepted, full papers will be published as a special issue of the journal Bioinformatics and indexed in the Medline database. Presenters of accepted full papers will be given a 25-minute slot (plus 5 minutes for questions) in the conference schedule. Full papers must include an abstract of not more than 250 words. Submitted papers should be a maximum of 10 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography), single spaced, margins 2.5 cm and set in 12 point type. The first page should give keywords, postal and electronic mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Papers should be submitted electronically to CyberChairPRO in either Postscript or PDF format. Click here to submit your paper to CyberChairPro. Papers will only be accepted electronically. For accepted papers, figures with multiple colors can be printed at the author's expense. Upon acceptance, authors must comply with the formatting instructions for final papers (available soon). Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work. At the time the full paper is submitted to ISMB/ECCB 2004, and for the entire review period, the paper should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal. Short papers must include an abstract of not more than 100 words and should be should be a minimum of 1 page and a maximum of 4 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography) of single spaced text set in 12 point type. Accepted short papers will have their abstracts printed in the conference program and these papers will be available online on the ISMB/ECCB 2004 website but, because they won't be published in a journal, presenters will be able to choose where to publish the work that they present at ISMB/ECCB 2004. Presenters of accepted short papers will be given a 15-minute slot (plus 5 minutes for questions) in the conference schedule. Short papers on any aspect of computational biology are encouraged; typical topics include biologically interesting discoveries using established bioinformatics techniques, analysis of biological data, novel software, implementations, databases and network services. Short papers should be submitted electronically to CyberChairPRO in either Postscript or PDF format. Click here to submit your paper to CyberChairPro. Papers will only be accepted electronically. |