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RECOMB
2004 Registration Now open
The
RECOMB conference series will stop in San Diego for the 2004 edition
of the annual event. To be held from March 27 thru 31, RECOMB, short
for Research in Computational Molecular Biology, will showcase some
of the most cutting edge discoveries and techniques to have recently
emerged from a dynamic field of science bridging computer science
and biology. Over 600 attendees from around the world are expected
for the 2004 event. You can register today at recomb04.sdsc.edu/registration.html.
Early registration rates expire on February 15 and all ISCB and
ACM/SIGACT members enjoy additional registration discounts.
RECOMB
2004 will provide a general forum for disseminating the latest research
in bioinformatics and computational biology. It is a multidisciplinary
conference that brings together academic and industrial scientists
from molecular biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics
and statistics. University of California, San Diegos Philip
E. Bourne, will serve as conference general chair and Dan Gusfield
of the University of California, Davis is the meetings program
chair.
RECOMB
was first held in 1997 to provide a forum for theoretical advances
in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology
and medicine. The conference descended from a heritage of formal
studies in theoretical and algorithmic computational biology, and
today there remains a certain focus on computational advances. However,
the effective use of computational techniques to biological innovation
has also become an important emphasis of the meeting.
The
conference program will include 38 contributed papers from some
130 submissions selected by an international program committee through
a rigorous review process that rivals the editorial process for
top-rate scientific journals. Ten page extended abstracts of the
contributed papers are collected in a volume published by ACM Press
and available at the conference, with full versions of a selection
of the papers published annually in a special issue of the Journal
of Computational Biology devoted to the RECOMB Conference.
Another
highlight of RECOMB is a collection of nine keynotes awarded to
an international group of top researchers who are asked to inform
the community about landmark advances in computational and experimental
research and inject new directions into the field of computational
molecular biology. Those include: Carlos Bustamante, University
of California, Berkeley; Russell Doolittle, University of California,
San Diego, 2004 Award Recipient: The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational
Biology Lecture; Andrew Fire, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
2004 Award Recipient: The Distinguished Biology Lecture; Richard
Karp, University of California, Berkeley, 2004 Award Recipient:
Fred Howes Distinguished Service Award; William McGinnis, University
of California, San Diego; Deborah Nickerson, University of Washington;
Martin Nowak, Harvard University; Christine Orengo, University College
London; Elizabeth Winzeler, Scripps Research Institute.
RECOMB
2004 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT)
and will be organized by University of California San Diego, San
Diego Supercomputer Center, and the International Society for Computational
Biology. The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel Horton
Plaza, San Diego. For full conference information, including the
list of accepted papers, please visit recomb04.sdsc.edu/.
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