1) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
(ISMB '99)
August 6 - August 10, 1999
Heidelberg, Germany
http://ismb99.gmd.de
Sponsored by the International Society for Computational Biology (in cooperation
with Dechema, the German Informatics Society (GI), and the American Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI))
ATTEND ONE OF THE PREMIER INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS AND ENJOY
THE RARE SIGHT OF A TOTAL ECLIPSE
The ISMB conference provides a general forum for disseminating the latest developments
in bioinformatics. ISMB is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together
scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics and statistics.
Its scope includes the development and application of advanced computational
methods for biological problems. Relevant computational techniques include,
but are not limited to: machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge representation,
databases, combinatorics, stochastic modeling, string and graph algorithms,
linguistic methods, robotics, constraint satisfaction, and parallel computation.
Biological areas of interest include molecular structure, genomics, molecular
sequence analysis, evolution and phylogenetics, molecular interactions, metabolic
pathways, regulatory networks, developmental control, and molecular biology
generally. Emphasis is placed on the validation of methods using real data sets,
on practical applications in the biological sciences, and on development of
novel computational techniques.The five-day conference is going to be held in
the Stadthalle Heidelberg in the center of the picturesque town of Heidelberg
in Germany. Heidelberg is one of the scientific centers of Molecular Biology
in Germany. In addition to its renown University and two Max-Planck Institutes,
the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the German National Cancer Research
Center are located there as well as many pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
The region receives special funding as one of three BioRegio regions in Germany.
Heidelberg can be reached conveniently by train or shuttle from Frankfurt airport.The
conference precedes a total solar eclipse which will happen just south of Heidelberg
on August 11, 1999. Total solar eclipses are extremely rare astronomical events,
happening only every few hundred years over a given point on earth. The next
total solar eclipse in central Europe is going to happen in the year 2081; over
North America the next total solar eclipse is in the year 2017.The conference
will feature original, refereed papers, software demonstrations, posters and
introductory tutorials. There will also be an exhibition of hardware and software
vendors. Papers will be published by the AAAI in an archival proceedings and
are indexed in the Medline database, and will be provided to participants as
a bound volume at the conference.
The previous ISMB meetings
were:
1993: National Library of Medicine, USA
1994: Stanford University, USA
1995: Cambridge University, UK
1996: Washington University, USA
1997: Halkidiki, Greece
1998: Montreal, Canada
Keynote speakers
Manfred Eigen, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Goettingen Germany
(Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1967)
Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Richard Karp, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Anthony Kerlavage, Celera Genomics Corporation, Rockville MD
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, Bethesda MD
Rob Lipschutz, Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara CA
Matthias Mann, Odense University, Denmark
Michael Sternberg, ICRF, London UK
Paper format
Papers should be a maximum of 12 pages, single-spaced and set in 12 pointtype,
including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. TheFirst page
should give keywords, postal and electronic mailing addresses, telephone, and
fax numbers. See the WWW page for other conference details.Submission informationFor
physical submission, please send five copies of your paper to:
ISMB '99
c/o Thomas Lengauer
GMD-SCAI
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 Sankt Augustin
Germany
Papers can also be sent electronically (postscript format only)
to ismb99@gmd.de
ISMB-99 Organizing Committee
Thomas Lengauer GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany
Reinhard Schneider LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany
Peer Bork EMBL Heidelberg and MDC Berlin, Germany
Doug Brutlag Stanford University, USA
Janice Glasgow Queen's University, Canada
Hans Werner Mewes MIPS Martinsried, Germany
Ralf Zimmer GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany Key DatesMeeting:
Tutorial presentations: Aug 6, 1999
Paper presentations: Aug 7-10, 1999Paper Submissions
Papers must be received by: Jan 31, 1999
Replies to authors by: Mar 20, 1999
Revised papers must be received by: Apr 9, 1999
Open Poster Submissions
Abstracts must be received by: May 15, 1999Tutorial Proposals
Short (1-para) proposals must be received by: Jan 10, 1999
Full (3pp) proposals must be received by: Feb 5, 1999
Replies to proposers by: Mar 26, 1999
Draft handouts must be received by: Apr 25, 1999
Final handouts must be received by: Jun 20, 1999
Tutorials presented: Aug 6,
1999ISMB-99 Contact address: ismb99@gmd.de
2)
CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, January 4-9, 2000This
is an invitation to submit proposals for sessions in the fifth Pacific Symposium
on Biocomputing (PSB), to be held January 4-9, 2000 in Hawaii. PSB will bring
together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations and around the
world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of
computational biology. PSB will provide a forum for the presentation of work
in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational
methods, as applied to biological problems, with an emphasis on applications
in data-rich areas of molecular biology.The PSB has been designed to be responsive
to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that
reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year
in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders in
the emerging areas, and targeted to provide a forum for publication and discussion
of research in biocomputing's "hot topics." In this way, PSB provides
an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in
this rapidly changing field.Proposals for such sessions are hereby solicited.
A sessions proposal should identify a coherent topic that can be addressed by
3 to 12 papers. For example, a session might bring together papers on alternative
approaches to a particular biological question or it might examine the applications
of a particular technology in a variety of biological areas. A sample of the
more than 30 different sessions at the previous PSB meetings includes:
* Gene Expression and Genetic Networks
* Modeling Metabolic Pathways
* Computer Modeling in Physiology: From Cell to Tissue
* Distributed and Intelligent Databases
* Biocomputing Education and Curriculum.
* Disorder in Protein Structure and FunctionFor more information, you may want
to consult the PSB '99 online
proceedings, available on http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/psb99/
A major goal of PSB is to
create productive interaction among the rather different research cultures of
computer science and biology. Recognizing that many in the computational community
believe the value of a meeting depends on the quality of its review process,
every full manuscript submitted to PSB is reviewed by at least two anonymous
reviewers, as well as the session organizers and meeting chairs. Accepted papers
are distributed in a proceedings volume at the meeting, and are indexed in Medline
and other bibliographic databases. However we also recognize that many potential
participants, particularly from the biological community, do not choose to submit
full papers to conferences, even with assurances of availability and broad indexing.
Therefore PSB also includes a separate open submission abstract book, open poster
presentations, and open computer demonstration sessions in which any registrant
can present research.
Responsibilities
of a session chair:As a proposer of an accepted session, you will become the
session chair. The chair's primary responsibility is to solicit high quality
papers for the session and oversee their review. You are to solicit manuscripts,
have them refereed, collaborate with the conference chairs in determining which
manuscripts are to be accepted and structure presentation time in your session.
Please contact the us at the address below if you have any questions about the
obligations entailed in becoming a session organizer.
Procedure for submitting proposals:
Session proposals can be as short as a single page and should in no case be
more than 6 pages.
The proposal should:
* Define a specific technical area to be covered.
* Justify why the proposed area is appropriate for PSB. Discuss why the
topic is timely and important, and how the topic has been addressed in
other conferences or recent publications.
* Argue that there is likely to be sufficient high quality, unpublished
material to fill the session, e.g., a list of researchers you intend to
solicit for papers.
* Provide a short autobiographical sketch and an explicit statement that
your organization endorses your involvement.
Proposals and all conference related communication must be by email.February
16, 1999 Proposals DueMarch 1, 1999
Notification Regarding the Proposals
Each proposal will be evaluated by the organizing committee. We look forward
to your submissions.
Send proposals to:
Lawrence Hunter, PhD.
National Library of Medicinephone: +1 (301) 496-9303
fax: +1 (301) 496-0673
email: hunter@nlm.nih.gov