[BiO BB] CFP: Special Session on Computer Infrastructure for Systems Biology (March 28th Submission Deadline)

[Chen, Jake]

                                                            CALL FOR
PAPERS

 

 

                        18th International Conference on Systems
Engineering (ICSEng'05)

 

                        Special Session on Computer Infrastructure for
Systems Biology 

 

                                                            August 16-18
2005, 

                                                

                                                            Las Vegas,
Nevada

 

 
http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/bio-05/

 

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Overview

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The special session's goal is to bring forth ideas and collaborations
among industrial and academic bioinformaticians, biocomputing
professionals, data analysts, and system biologists to facilitate
systems biology research and findings. Both research papers (6 pages,
IEEE Proceedings format) and poster papers (2 pages) are solicited to
explore case histories of building and maintaining IT infrastructures
that support advanced biological research. Both industrial and academic
contributions are welcome.

 

 

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Topics

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Systems Biology is an emerging field that seeks to analyze disparate
forms of biological data with an aim of uncovering the function and
interaction of the underlying biological systems. It is characterized by
voluminous and heterogeneous data, incomplete data sets, low data
signal/noise ratios, and extreme difficulties in precisely reproducing
experimental conditions. These drawbacks are offset by the profound
interest in the field by the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries
and by the illumination of biological research in general.

 

We welcome papers/presentations that examine fresh perspectives and
profound experiences in the research and development of computer systems
enabling systems biology. Topics of interests include (but are not
limited to):

 

* Microarray Data Analysis

* Functional Imaging and Pattern Recognition 

* Biological database integration and knowledge representation

* Ontologies and semantic web systems for biology

* Biomedical literature text mining

* Micro-surgery and micro-manipulation 

* Application of nanotechnology to biological systems 

* Protein-protein interactions 

* Proteomics 

* Protein-small molecule interactions 

* Metabolic and Genetic Pathways 

* Visualization of complex data relationships 

* Biological data tracking and labelling 

* Clinical Informatics 

* Laboratory Information Management Systems 

* Measuring cellular metabolism and cellular signalling

 

 

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AUDIENCE

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* Computer and IT professionals from the biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industries. 

* Bioinformatics researchers with an interest in real-world
applications. 

* Researchers and developers interested in application of computational
systems to biological problems.

 

 

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstracts Due: March 28, 2005

Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2005

Final paper Due: May 23, 2005

 

 

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Submission

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Abstracts in English reporting original and unpublished research results
and experience are solicited. All abstracts are to be submitted in PDF
or MS word version electronically. 

 

Abstracts for refereeing should be double-spaced and must include the
special session keyword "Computer Infrastructure for Systems Biology" to
reach us correctly. For detailed submission instruction and submission
site, go to: http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/bio-05/submission.stm.
Note that submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register and present the paper. 

 

All abstracts will be peer reviewed by two indepent members from the
scientific committee, and may be accepted into the program as one of the
format on a competitive basis: 

 

Full papers not to exceed 6 Proceedings-formatted pages, and will be
invited for podium presentations;

Poster papers not to exceed 2 Proceedings-formatted pages, and will be
given a poster board to display work.

 

 

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Publication

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Accepted and registered papers will be included in the ICSEng'05
conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Science Press.
Selected high-quality full papers will also be published in the
International Journal on Computational Intelligence and Applications by
World Scientific Publishing Company Press. 

 

 

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Contact the Chairs

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Jake Y. Chen

Assistant Professor

Indiana University School of Informatics 

Indianapolis, IN 46202

USA 

Email: jakechen at iupui.edu 

Web site: http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/

 

 

Bradley K. Sherman

Director of Bioinformatics

Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

21375 Cabot Boulevard 

Hayward, CA 94545

USA

Email: icse at mendelbio.com 

web site: http://www.mendelbio.com/

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