Call for Highlights - ISMB/ECCB 2015

Highlights Track Chairs: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany, and,
                                              Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg

Highlights Track Submission Site - Closed: February 27, 2015

Highlights Track: About
Highlights Track: Deadlines
Highlights Track: Review Criteria
Highlights Track: Submission Guidelines

Highlights Track: About

 

We invite the submission of full papers that have been published, or accepted for publication, between January 1, 2014 and the submission deadline, February 27, 2015. Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by February 27, 2015 are also 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 biomedical research, in general. Accepted presenters for the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves, and must register and pay to attend the conference.

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. More details are given below.

New for 2015 will be the presentation of talks by Thematic area. Oral presentations from accepted submissions from Highlights, Proceedings and Late Breaking Research will be presented by theme area. These themes are:

Genes:
Includes work in genes (including non-coding RNA), transcriptomes, genomes and variation.

Proteins:
Includes analysis of proteins and their structures and proteomics.

Systems:
This theme includes higher level systems such as cells, tissues, whole organisms and ecosystems. Includes systems biology, molecular interactions and genetic regulation.

Disease:
Includes analysis of mutations, phenotypes, drugs, epidemiology and other clinically relevant areas

Data:
Includes data and text-mining, ontologies, databases and machine learning approaches that do not fit in other categories.

Other:
Research areas that do not fall within the five (5) main thematic areas. The organizers may, at their discretion, move submissions to other thematic areas.
 

Highlights Track: Deadlines and Presentation Length
 

All papers published in peer-reviewed journals (no book chapters) between January 1, 2014 and February 27, 2015 are eligible to be presented as talks. Papers in press are acceptable only if already available through the journal web site. Note that presenters are be encouraged to also present more recent work, however, that work will not be considered in the decision. Up to 2 papers can be submitted as one single PDF if the authors intend to present the results of multiple qualifying papers.

Acceptance notifications will be sent no later than Friday, April 10, 2015.  **Revised**

The selected Highlights will be presented in tracks that run in parallel at the conference. All presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes and will be followed by a maximum of 3-minute discussions.  Presenters should focus on the chosen paper(s), and are encouraged to include more recent results. In fact, closed stories that conclude with a particular publication not bearing follow up perspectives might not constitute the best Highlight presentations.
 

Highlights Track Deadlines

Monday, December 8, 2014

Call for Highlights Track Opens

 
Friday, February 27, 2015
Highlights Submission Deadline
 
Friday, April 10, 2015 Highlights Acceptance Notification **Revised**
 

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Highlights Track: Review Criteria


All submissions will be evaluated by a group of Area Chairs and the submission will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

  1. Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to conference attendees,
  2. Impact of the paper(s) on biology/medicine (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),
  3. "Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse audience,
  4. Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if known),
  5. Submissions that permit the presentation of related interesting unpublished new results will be viewed favorably.

These "soft" criteria attempt to capture the underlying goal of the Highlights Track, namely the presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both contribute to the success of the conference and to the impact the meeting has on advancing computational biology and bioinformatics.

Highlights Track: Submission Guidelines

PDF files of the papers,  the 250-word Scientific Justification (support abstract) and a 150-word presentation description must be submitted through the automated system by February 27, 2015 (midnight by any time zone). No exceptions will be allowed.

Submissions must be made to the automatic Highlights Track Submissions Site.
Submissions should include the following:

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