[BiO BB] Final CFP (Deadline Extended): APBC2006

[Phoebe Chen]

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Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been
extended to July 22nd 2005 !!!
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The Fourth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
Taipei, Taiwan 13-16 February 2006

Conference Web site:
http://binfo.ym.edu.tw/apbc2006/

On line Submission Web site at:
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/APBC2006/CallForPapers.aspx

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The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an annual forum for
exploring research, development, and applications in bioinformatics. The 4th
Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2006, will be held in Taipei,
Taiwan.

High-throughput sequencing and functional genomics technologies have given us a
human genome sequence and have enabled large-scale genotyping and gene
expression profiling of human populations. Databases containing large numbers
of sequences, polymorphisms, and gene expression profiles of normal and
diseased tissues in different clinical states are rapidly being generated for
human and model organisms. Bioinformatics is thus rapidly growing in importance
in the understanding of the interplay between genes and proteins, in the
analysis the genetic variability of species, etc. The aim of this conference is
to bring together researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners for
interaction and exchange of knowledge and ideas. We invite submissions that
address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics.

Topics of Interest
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
?Novel Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics
?Data Mining & Statistical Modeling of Biological Data
?Computational Analysis of Biological Data
?Modeling and Simulation of Biological Processes
?Visualization of Biological Processes and Data
?Management, Migration, and Integration of Biological Databases
?Access, Indexing, and Search in Biological Databases
?Pathways and Systems Biology
?Structural Bioinformatics
?Population and Statistical Genetics
?Comparative Genomics
?Evolutionary Biology

IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper Submission Deadline July 15, 2005 (Extended to 22 July 2005)
Notification of Paper Acceptance Aug 20, 2005
Tutorial proposals Aug 25, 2005
Camera Ready Papers Due Sep 10, 2005
Author Registration Sep 10, 2005
Poster & demo proposals Sep 20 2005
Conference Feb 13 2006 ~ Feb 16 2006

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Deakin University)
Wen-Hsiung Li (The University of Chicago)
Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Tao Jiang, University of California ?Riverside
Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto University)
Vineet Bafna (University of California ?San Diego)
Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milano-Bicocca)
David Bryant (McGill University/Niversity of Auckland)
Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University)
Francis Chin (Hong-Kong University)
Ross Coppel (Monash University)
Michael Cummings (University of Maryland)
Bhaskar DasGupta (University of Illinois ?Chicago)
Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal)
Janice Glasgow (Queens University)
Sridhar Hannenhalli (University of Pennsylvania)
Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica)
Haiyan Huang (University of California ?Berkeley)
Ming-Jing Hwang (Academia Sinica)
John Kececioglu (University of Arizona)
Chris Langmead (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sang-Yup Lee (Korea Adv. Institute of Sci. & Technology)
Jinyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research)
Jing Li (Case Western Reserve University)
Guohui Lin (University of Alberta)
Stefano Lonardi (University of California ?Riverside)
Horng-Shing Lu (National Chao-Tung University)
Bin Ma (University of Western Ontario)
Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo)
Laxmi Parida ( IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
Kunsoo Park (Seoul National University)
Christian Pedersen (University of Aarhus)
Alexander Schliep (Max Planck Institute for Mol. Genetics)
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie University)
Christian Schoenbach (RIKEN)
Larry Ruzzo (University of Washington)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong-Kong)
Wei Wang (University of North Carolina ?Chapel Hill)
Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael Zhang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Yang Zhong (Fudan University)
Xianghong Zhou (University of Southern California)
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Jorng-Tzong Horng (National Central University)
Cheng-Yan Kao (National Taiwan University)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
APBC2006 invites high-quality original papers on any topic related to
Bioinformatics. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to
the formatting instructions for the series Advances in Bioinformatics &
Computational Biology (instructions available at the APBC2006 website). Each
paper will be fully refereed by an international program committee. Papers will
be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Authors should
submit one copy of a PDF or PS file to APBC2006 Paper Submission Website. The
full paper must be submitted by 15 July 2005. The proceedings will be published
as a volume in the series Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology by
Imperial College Press. Expanded version of the best papers will be invited for
publication in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. To
publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to register for
and present at the conference.