ISCB-LA / X-meeting / BSB / SoIBio 2014

Belo Horizonte

Locations of interest in Belo Horizonte - MAP

The Venue

Here is a map of the UFMG Campus.  The main auditorium will be CAD1, accross from the World Cup Soccer Stadium.  The second auditorium for the breakout sessions will be Auditório 3 at the Biology Institute - ICB, accross the street from CAD 1.  Coffee break, poster sessions and sponsor booths will be located on the ground floor of CAD 1.

CAD 1 Auditorium

About Belo Horizonte

Flying into town.  Belo Horizonte is a hub for two of the main brazilian airlines, Gol and Azul.  People can reach the city form anywhere in the country with no stops or at the most one stop.  There are two airports in town, Pampulha, right next to the University for short flights and the international airport of Confins.  International flights arrive directly in Belo Horizonte from Panama, Miami and Lisbon.  This will enable visitors from the US or Europe to reach town with one stop in most cases.

Weather in October is mild in Belo Horizonte.  For October the temperature will fluctuate between 65^oF-83^oF.  Sunshine is expected for just 12h per day.  Rainfall is just average between the driest in July and wettest in December.  For detailed climate information visit this web site.

Hotels around the venue

There are over 12 hotels nearby.  The map indicates some of these hotels.  Prices will range from ~100USD to 60 USD for individual rooms.  The fast bus service that just opened to downtown facilitates transit to town where many hotels are available.

At the moment we have discount agreements with two hotels:

1 - San Diego Suites Pampulha
2 - Pampulha Flat
3 - Fino da Bola Hostel (if you want to have it cheap!)

Things to do around Belo – some tips

• Hiking – The natural parks of Serra do Cipó and Caraça are nice day trips and offer opportunities for tracking and bird watching.
• History – Ouro Preto is a UNESCO World Heritage historical site.  It was the first capital of Brazil.  Other historical sites nearby are Tiradentes, Congonhas, São Joal Del Rei, among others.
• Museums in Belo – Belo Horizonte recently inaugurated a series of culture sites around Liberty Square.  Near town there is the well known Inhotim Botanical Garden and Natural Art museum, a truly unique experience.
• The Central Market is a tourist favourite for all the diversity of food and local crafts.
• On Sundays the open market known as Hippie Fair attracts thousands of people.
• Belo Horizonte is know as the city of bars.  Read this NY Times piece.
• Her is also a NY Times article on what to do in Belo for 36 hours.
• Visit the city tourism web site.
• FIFA's host city web page

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

BSB Symposium

BSB Symposium

The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2014 is an initiative sponsored by the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, and its special interest group in Computational Biology.

BSB provides a general forum for presentation and discussion of original research on COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, BIOINFORMATICS and SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. BSB 2014 would like to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers, both in the exact sciences (computer science, mathematics and statistics) and in the life sciences (molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology and others).

BSB 2014 will accept both full papers (for oral presentation) and short papers (to be presented as posters). Proceedings containing accepted full papers will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series, from Springer. We also expect to have best papers invited for revised and expanded submission to a special issue in an international journal.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

•     Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
•     Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining
•     Structural and Functional Genomics
•     Comparative Genomics
•     Protein Structure and Modeling
•     Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression
•     Gene Networks
•     Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
•     Computational Systems Biology
•     Computational Proteomics
•     Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
•     Big data applications in Bioinformatics

Dates:

    Submission deadline: July 17th, 2014.

    Author notification: August 7th, 2014.

    Final version due: August 19th, 2014.

    Poster deadline: August 15th, 2014.

Program Committee Chair

    Sérgio Campos, UFMG, Brasil

Program Committee

    André Fujita, IME/USP, Brazil

    David Sankoff, University of Ottawa

    Duncan Ruiz, PUC-RS, Brazil

    Emidio Capriotti, University of Balearic Islands, Spain

    Guilherme Oliveira, Fiocruz

    Guilherme P. Telles, UNICAMP, Brazil

    Gustavo Parisi, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina

    Ivan Gesteira Costa, RWTH, Germany

    João Setubal, USP, Brazil

    Katia S. Guimarães, UFPE, Brazil

    Luis Antonio Kowada, UFF, Brazil

    Marcelo M. Brígido, UNB, Brazil

    Maria Emilia T. Walter, UNB, Brazil

    Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France

    Marília D. V. Braga, INMETRO, Brazil

    Nalvo F. Almeida Jr., UFMS, Brazil

    Natasa Przulj, Imperial College, England

    Osmar Norberto de Souza, PUC-RS, Brazil

    Ronnie Alves ITV, Brazil

    Said S. Adi UFMS, Brazil

    Sergio Campos, UFMG, Brazil

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SUBMISSIONS

POSTERS

Flash Poster Presentations
10 min + 5 for questions
Authors must bring the presentation on a flash drive in PPT and/or PDF.

Poster Presetations
Posters will be presented half in day 2 and half in day 3 of the meeting.  Announcements on which day you will present will be out shortly.

SUBMIT POSTER PRESENTATIONS

SUBMIT LATE POSTER PRESENTATIONS

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Poster Deadline: August 15, 2014

Late Poster Deadline: September 15, 2014

The ISCB-LA/X-Meeting/BSB welcomes the submission of abstracts for poster presentation.  Poster abstracts are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods covering a range of topics reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature.

Accepted posters are displayed at the conference. Authors will be assigned a presentation time in one of two sessions.

Participants interested in presenting a poster at ISCB-LA 2014 are required to complete the submission form and submit a max. 450-word abstract. 

Submission Topics:

• Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment
• Computational aspects
• Comparative Genomics
• Education --The examination of how different models of learning and educational programming in bioinformatics (e.g. tutorials, workshops, courses and e-learning) can be used to impact the understanding and use of bioinformatics across different audiences.
• Epigenetics
• Functional Genomics
• Genome Organization and Annotation
• Genetic Variation Analysis
• Metagenomics
• Pathogen informatics
• Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
• Protein Structure and Function Prediction and Analysis
• Proteomics
• Sequence Analysis
• Systems Biology and Networks
  
  

Abstract template pdf (click here)

Poster template

**Poster Submission Form** Note: abstract maximum 450 words.

FLASH PRESENTATIONS

FLASH PRESENTATIONS

Deadline: August 15, 2014

The ISCB-LA 2014 Conference will provide opportunities for short "flash" presentations (10 minute talks) on current projects. Original presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.

Flash Talk submissions can also be marked for poster presentations in the submission system.

Submission Topics:

Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment
Computational aspects
Comparative Genomics
Education --The examination of how different models of learning and educational programming in bioinformatics (e.g. tutorials, workshops, courses and e-learning) can be used to impact the understanding and use of bioinformatics across different audiences.
Epigenetics
Functional Genomics
Genome Organization and Annotation
Genetic Variation Analysis
Metagenomics
Pathogen informatics
Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
Protein Structure and Function Prediction and Analysis
Proteomics
Sequence Analysis
Systems Biology and Networks

**Flash Presentation Submission Form**

GUIDELINES

Manuscript Preparation

The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. ALL manuscripts MUST be written in ENGLISH and include an abstract.

Deadline for submissions is July 17th, 2014.  The deadline will not be extended!

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Categories of Contributions/Manuscripts

ISCB-LA/X-meeting/BSB will accept two different categories of contributions:

• Full papers --- AB3C BMC Genomics track.
• Short papers ---  8 pages, Lecture Notes series, BSB track.  Papers in this track may be selected for submission to BMC Bioinformatics.

Manuscripts that deviate significantly from these guidelines may risk rejection without consideration of scientific merit.

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Manuscript Submission

Submission will be electronic through the meeting submission system.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by ac hoc experts in the field.

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PROMOTION

Updated June 26, 2014

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