ISMB/ECCB 2007 Highlights Track: Call for Proposals
posted 04 Oct 2006
***Highlights Track Submissions to ISMB/ECCB 2007 is Now Closed***
**Highlights Track Submission Site**
Highlights Track: About
Highlights Track: Deadlines
Highlights Track: Review Criteria
Highlights Track: Submission Guidelines
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 Highlights Track: About |
Manuscripts submitted to the ISMB/ECCB proceedings must be original, unpublished research work; if accepted it will not be publishable elsewhere.
We invite the submission of full papers that have been published between 2006 and the submission deadline (or are in press). 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 makes a good presentation, and the relevance for molecular and medical biology, in general.
Submissions must include a 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how the submitted paper(s) suit the goal of presenting highlights that impacted the field. More details are given below.
Highlights Track: Deadlines |
Submission Schedule Highlights Track
November 17, 2006 — Highlights Track Call for Papers Opens
April 6, 2007 — Highlights Track Paper Submission Deadline (any time zone)
April 23, 2007 — Highlights Track Acceptance Notification
All submissions will be evaluated by a group of editors. Upon submission, the authors will identify the editor/expert most suitable to suitable to review their work.
All papers published in peer-review journals (no book chapters) between 2006 and February 2007 are eligible to be presented as talks. Papers in press are acceptable only if the authors submit the PDF with the proofs. Up to 2 papers can be submitted as one single PDF if the authors intent to compose their presentations of multiple papers.
All PDFs with the covering 250-word argument that explains how the papers suit the selection criteria will have to be submitted through the automated system by April 6, 2007 (midnight by any time zone). No reason will exempt submissions from this deadline.
The editors will notify authors of the acceptance by April 23, 2007.
The selected Highlights will be presented in tracks that run in parallel to the main ISMB/ECCB meeting, July 22-25, 2007. All presentations will have to be completed within 20 minutes and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. While presenters are expected to focus mostly on the chosen paper(s), short infusions of more recent data are welcome.
Highlights Track: Review Criteria |
All submissions will be evaluated by a group of editors to be named. Editors will consider the following criteria:
- Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to ISMB/ECCB attendees,
- Impact of the paper(s) on biology (while the impact of papers on science is not fully reflected by ISI/Google-like impact factors or high number of downloads, high values in such factors will clearly stand as a strong argument for acceptance),
- “Presentability” of the work to a large, diverse audience,
- Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if none).
These “soft” criteria attempt to capture the underlying concept, namely the presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both contribute to the success and attraction-value of ISMB/ECCB and to the impact the meeting has on advancing computational biology and bioinformatics.
The criterion of “presentability” accounts for the fact that some papers that will completely change the field, or will become citation records may not translate to exciting seminars.
Highlights Track: Submission Guidelines |
All PDFs with the covering 250-word argument that explains how the papers suit the selection criteria will have to be submitted through the automated system by April 6, 2007 (midnight by any time zone). There will be no exception.
Submissions will have to be made to the automatic system at:
http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismb07/highlights.php
Submissions will include the following:
- Name/affiliation of submitter (assumed to be the presenter)
- Names/affiliations of coauthors
- Contact information (for presenter)
- 250-word limited abstract-like Argument that explains the adequacy of this work
- Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages)
- PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both have to be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the content of this PDF).
- optional: link to Google Video demonstrating presentation skills of presenter
Note that we will need PDF submissions; the system will neither be able to handle ASCII, nor Word, nor LaTeX, nor anything other than PDF. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the PDF is completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems (LINUX, MacOS, Windows).
