Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB Members
and Colleagues,
The deadline for submissions for the 5th annual joint
RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, is
just two weeks away. We invite you to participate by submitting a paper or
abstract.
For more information, visit:
http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.
The 5th annual joint RECOMB
Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges is one of
the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the
fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology, and is now an official
conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. The meeting
will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.
All submissions of full-length papers will 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 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original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for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Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation.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.
***The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012 ***
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. Areas of interest for
papers, abstracts, and nominations include:
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. Lastly, we are also still inviting 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). See our website above for
more information.
We are looking forward to very exciting program. Our 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.
Registration is also now open and early registration rates will expire October 12th. 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
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
During the ISMB conference in July we announced that ISCB would be opening
an international competition to improve the coverage on Wikipedia of any aspect
of computational biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission to further the
scientific understanding of living systems through computation is to communicate
this knowledge to the public at large. Wikipedia has become an important way to
communicate all types of science to the public. The ISCB aims to further its
mission by increasing the quality of Wikipedia articles about computational
biology, and by improving accessibility to this information via Wikipedia. The
competition is open to students and trainees at any level either as individuals
or as groups.
We are now pleased to announce that the competition is
officially open as of the 9th of September 2012, coinciding with the start of
the ECCB conference, and will finish four months later on the 10th of January
2013.
The prize for the best article will be an award of $500 (US)
provided by the ISCB and a year's membership to the ISCB. A second prize will be
$200 and a year's membership to the ISCB.
For full details visit the
WikiProject Computational Biology/ISCB Competition Announcement. There you
will find information on how to enter the competition, how to create and edit
Wikipedia articles if not already trained in doing so, the rules and regulations
of the competition, and a special note for educators and course coordinators.
Please help spread the word - the more participants the higher the quality
will be of Wikipedia articles about computational biology for all. Feel free to
forward this mail, or share the URL of the competition announcement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISCB_competition_announcement).
Sincerely,
The ISCB Wikipedia Competition Judging Panel
Burkhard Rost
Alex Bateman
Predrag Radivojac
Janet Kelso
Thomas
Abeel
Geoff Macintyre
Darren Logan
Daniel Mietchener Center
Ohio
University (Russ College; Vice President Research; College of Arts and Science)
Ohio University Edison Biotechnology Institute
Procter & Gamble
Springer
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
Children's Hospital
University of Michigan - DCM&B and OVPR
University of
Michigan - Biomedical Research Core Facilities
University of Michigan -
Metabolomics Core
University of Pittsburgh
Wittenberg University
Wright
State University
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.
Call for Highlights: 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).
Call for Posters: Poster abstracts in the same topic areas are also
invited. Please submit your poster directly to the
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site by the submission deadline of
October 31, 2012.
Register Today: Conference registration is now open! ISCB members
and BGI staff are eligible for special 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
November 12-15,
2012
Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay
Redwood City, CA
Please join us for the fifth annual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory
and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges. Now an official conference of the
International Society for Computational Biology, this event is one of the
premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the
areas of regulatory genomics and systems biology.
Register now to take
advantage of early registration discounts. ISCB members are entitled to special
member rates for registration.
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