From tcan at ceng.metu.edu.tr Sat Mar 2 02:58:36 2013 From: tcan at ceng.metu.edu.tr (Tolga Can) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 09:58:36 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] CFP: 8th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT 2013) [Paper deadline: May 3, 2013] In-Reply-To: <5F06D538-AD44-45A8-BFA3-E270ABFC3D1E@hibit.org.tr> References: <5F06D538-AD44-45A8-BFA3-E270ABFC3D1E@hibit.org.tr> Message-ID: *CALL FOR PAPERS***** *8th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics***** *HIBIT 2013***** *METU, Ankara, Turkey***** *September 25-27, 2013* *http://www.hibit.org.tr***** ** ** *PURPOSE***** The *International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, (HIBIT)*, now in its eighth year (HIBIT 2013), aims to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners who work in these popular and fulfilling areas and to create the much-needed synergy among medical, biological and information technology sectors. HIBIT is one of the few conferences emphasizing such synergy. HIBIT provides a forum for discussion, exploration and development of both theoretical and practical aspects of health informatics and bioinformatics and a chance to network with others working and researching in this area.**** *SCOPE* The topics of the conference include but are not limited to:**** *Bioinformatics * - Genomics - Transcriptomics - Proteomics - Epigenetics - Interactomics - Protein Structure Analysis and Prediction - Next Generation Sequencing Technology - Comparative Sequence Analysis - Systems Biology - Text Mining and Information Extraction *Health Informatics* - Electronic Health Records and Standards - Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Instrumentation - Decision Support Systems and Computer Aided Diagnosis - Evaluation Methods in Health Informatics - Clinical Informatics and Hospital Information Systems - Telemedicine and Mobile Applications - Health Informatics (HI) Education - Computational Neuroscience - Security, Ethics and Privacy - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in HeaIth Informatics *IMPORTANT DATES***** Submission of full papers: May 3rd, 2013 Notification of acceptance: June 14th, 2013 Submission of poster abstracts: June 14th, 2013 Camera-Ready Papers: August 15th, 2013 Notification of acceptance of posters: September 5th, 2013 **** *PAPER SUBMISSIONS* Papers will be selected on the basis of originality, significance and clarity. Length of submitted full papers is limited to 8 pages. Submissions can be made electronically at *http://2013.hibit.org.tr/submissions/ * *ORGANIZATION* *HONORARY CHAIR* Ne?e Yalab?k, Middle East Technical University *CONFERENCE CO- CHAIRS***** Reng?l ?etin-Atalay, Bilkent University**** Aybar C. Acar, Middle East Technical University *ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE* Can Alkan, Bilkent University**** Volkan Atalay, Middle East Technical University**** Ye?im Ayd?n-Son, Middle East Technical University**** Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University**** Bala G?r-Dedeo?lu, Ankara University**** ?zlen Konu, Bilkent University**** Beste Mimaro?lu-Altunay, Middle East Technical University**** ?. Erkan Mumcuoglu, Middle East Technical University**** Ergin Soysal, Hacettepe University**** Ay?e G?l Yaman, Middle East Technical University**** **** *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Osman Abul, TOBB University of Economics and Technology**** Ay?en Akkaya, Middle East Technical University**** Jens Allmer, Izmir Institute of Technology**** Mehmet Serkan Apayd?n, Istanbul Sehir University**** Abdullah Arslan, Texas A & M University - Commerce**** Ergin Atalar, Bilkent University**** Burcu Bak?r-G?ng?r, Bahcesehir University**** Nazife Baykal, Middle East Technical University**** Elif Erson Bensan, Middle East Technical University**** H?seyin Boyac?, Bilkent University**** Zehra ?ataltepe, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi**** Mustafa ?ulha, Yeditepe University**** Murat ?okol, Sabanci University**** U?ur Do?rus?z, Bilkent University**** Melih El?in, Hacettepe University**** Burak Erman, Ko? University**** Hakan Ferhatosmano?lu, Bilkent University**** ?i?dem G?nd?z-Demir, Bilkent University**** Attila G?rsoy, Ko? University**** T?rkan Halilo?lu, Bo?azi?i ?niversity**** ?zlem ?lk, Middle East Technical University**** Yal??n ??ler, Zonguldak Karaelmas University**** Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida**** Zeynep Kalayl?o?lu, Middle East Technical University**** S?leyman Kaplan, Ondokuz May?s University**** Bilge Kara?al?, Izmir Institute of Technology**** Zeki Kaya, Middle East Technical University**** Mehmet Koyut?rk, Case Western Reserve University**** I??l Kurnaz, Yeditepe University**** Mohy Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center**** Banu Onaral, Drexel University**** Hasan Otu, Istanbul Bilgi University**** Hasan O?ul, Baskent University**** Vilda P?r?t??o?lu-Gazi, Middle East Technical University**** Hakan ?ktem, Middle East Technical University**** Murat ?zg?ren, Dokuz Eyl?l University**** Sevgi ?zkan, Middle East Technical University**** Cenk ?ahinalp, Simon Fraser University**** ?mer Sinan Sara?, Dresden University of Technology**** Ahmet Sa?an, Drexel University**** Ivo Sbalzarini, ETH Zurich University**** U?ur Sezerman, Sabanci University**** Kulwinder Singh, University of Calgary**** Ca?da? D. Son, Middle East Technical University**** ?nci Togan, Middle East Technical University**** Kemal Turhan, Karadeniz Technical University**** G?zde ?nal, Sabanci University**** Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University**** Malik Yousef, The Galilee Society R&D Center**** *CONGRESS SECRETERIAT* Asterya Destination and Events Management, Ankara, Turkey**** * * *CONTACT* *HIBIT2013* c/o Graduate School of Informatics**** Middle East Technical University**** Dumlup?nar Blv. #1**** 06800 ODT?-Ankara **** TURKEY**** Phone: +90 (312) 210 3742, **** Fax: +90 (312) 210 3745, E-mail: *hibit2013 at hibit.org.tr***** From admase at decsai.ugr.es Mon Mar 4 10:09:01 2013 From: admase at decsai.ugr.es (Antonio D. Masegosa) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:09:01 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] CFP: Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013) **Student scholarships offered** Message-ID: <5134B90D.4080808@decsai.ugr.es> ******** PLEASE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES ******** *********************************************************** The VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2013 September 2nd - 4th, 2013 Canterbury, United Kingdom http://www.nicso2013.org *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * Full paper submission: April 15, 2013 Acceptance notification: May 15, 2013 Final camera ready: June 5, 2013 NICSO: September 2-4, 2013 NICSO 2013 will be the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization. This workshop aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners from different disciplines in order to discuss recent advances and exchange ideas on the current state of the art of cooperative problem solving strategies. All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers from the Program Committee. Selection criteria will be based on relevance, originality, significance, impact, technical soundness and quality of the presentation. Contributions are expected to provide original results, insights and experimental innovations. Manuscripts must be in PDF, not exceeding 12 pages and conforming to the Latex template at Instructions for Authors page for the book series Studies in Computational Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/series/7092). Contributions are welcome to submission through the system available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2013 **STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS**: Successfully accepted postgraduate research student papers will automatically enter a competition from where the best will be chosen and offered a scholarship that offsets the student registration fee. The selection process criteria will be based on originality, technical soundness, positioning and writing style. More information in http://www.nicso2013.org/scholarships_scheme.html The accepted papers will be published in the book series on STUDIES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Springer) (http://www.springer.com/series/7092) indexed by ISI Web of Science Conference Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink. The authors of a selection of the best accepted papers will be invited to revise and extend their contributions for publication in a special issue in the JOURNAL OF MEMETIC COMPUTING (Springer) (http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293). * Plenary Speakers (more to confirm) * - Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms with Genetic Programming - Alex Freitas, University of Kent, UK Target topics (but not limited to): Adaptive Behaviour Ants Colonies Amorphous Computing Artificial Life Artificial Immune Systems Bioinformatics Bio-inspired architecture Biological and Chemical IT Complex Systems Distributed Computing Evolutionary Algorithms Evolutionary Robotics Evolvable Systems Games and Game Theory Genetic Algorithms Genetic Programming Hyperheuristics Membrane Computing Memetic Algorithms Quantum Computing Software Self-Assembly Systems Biology Systems Coevolution Swarm Intelligence * Workshop Organizers * Fernando Esteban Barril Otero German Terrazas Antonio D. Masegosa * Steering Committee * Natalio Krasnogor David A. Pelta * Programme Committee * Alex Freitas, University of Kent, UK Andr?s R. Masegosa, University of Granada, Spain Bel?n Melian, University of La Laguna, Spain Blas J. Galv?n, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Carlos Cruz Corona, University of Granada, Spain Carlos Garc?a Mart?nez, Univeristy of C?rdoba, Spain Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, US Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK Davide Anguita, University of Genova, Italy Enrique Onieva, University of Deusto, Spain Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, UK Gianluigi Folino, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy Gisele Pappa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Giuseppe Scollo, University of Catania, Italy J. Marcos Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK Jean-Louis Giavitto, Universit? d'Evry, France Jim Smith, University of the West of England, UK Jon Timmis, University of York, UK Jorge Casillas, University of Granada, Spain Jos? A. Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain Jos? Alejandro Castillo, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico Jos? Luis Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain Jos? Manuel Cadenas, University of Murcia, Spain Juan Jos? Merelo, University of Granada, Spain Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mar?a Teresa Lamata, University of Granada, Spain Marian Gheorghe, University of Sheffield, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Oliver Korb, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK Paolo Arena, University of Catania, Italy Ren? Doursat, Complex Systems Institute, France Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Shengxiang Yang , University of Leicester, UK Stefano Pizzuti, Energy, New Technologies & Envir. Agency, Italy Steven Gustafson, General Electric Global Research Center, US Thomas Stibor, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Kwang-Hyun Cho, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), korea From clements at galaxyproject.org Tue Mar 12 18:00:26 2013 From: clements at galaxyproject.org (Dave Clements) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:00:26 -0700 Subject: [BiO BB] 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, We are pleased to announce that early registration and paper and poster abstract submission are now open for the 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) . GCC2013 will be held 30 June through July 2 in Oslo Norway, at the University of Oslo . GCC2013 is an opportunity to participate in two full days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, keynotes, lightning talks and breakouts, *all about high-throughput biology and the tools that support it*. The conference also includes a Training Day for the second year in a row, this year with more in-depth topic coverage, more concurrent sessions, and more topics. If you are a biologist or bioinformatician performing or enabling high-throughput biological research, then please consider attending. GCC2013 is aimed at: - Bioinformatics tool developers and data providers - Workflow developers and power bioinformatics users - Sequencing and Bioinformatics core staff - Data archival and analysis reproducibility specialists *Early registration * *saves up to 75% off regular registration costs,* and is very affordable, with combined registration (Training Day + main meeting) starting at ~ ?95 for post-docs and students. Registering early also assures you a spot in the Training Day workshops you want to attend. Once a Training Day session becomes full, it will be closed to new registrations. Early registration closes 24 May. *Abstract submission * for oral presentations closes 12 April, and for posters on 3 May. Please consider presenting your work. If you are working with big biological data, then the people at this meeting want to hear about your work. Thanks, and hope to see you in Oslo! The GCC2013 Organizing Committee PS: And please help get the word out ! -- http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2013 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/ From washington3 at countermail.com Fri Mar 22 14:36:40 2013 From: washington3 at countermail.com (washington3 at countermail.com) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:36:40 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] introductory book Message-ID: <8bf8eb1f111b6ead07541dbeb3165b69.cm1@countermail.com> Can you suggest an introductory book on Bioinformatics? From skhadar at gmail.com Fri Mar 22 18:24:35 2013 From: skhadar at gmail.com (Khader Shameer) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:24:35 -0500 Subject: [BiO BB] introductory book In-Reply-To: <8bf8eb1f111b6ead07541dbeb3165b69.cm1@countermail.com> References: <8bf8eb1f111b6ead07541dbeb3165b69.cm1@countermail.com> Message-ID: Here is a nice discussion on introductory books for bioinformatics at Biostar http://www.biostars.org/p/181/ On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, wrote: > > Can you suggest an introductory book on Bioinformatics? > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > BBB at bioinformatics.org > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > From camda at bioinf.jku.at Sat Mar 23 08:45:24 2013 From: camda at bioinf.jku.at (CAMDA 2013) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:45:24 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] CAMDA 2013 Challenge: Big Data in Life Sciences Message-ID: <6626B67A-0230-4DF0-9A4B-04F60CEF1842@bioinf.jku.at> CAMDA 2013 Challenge: Big Data in Life Sciences http://www.camda.info The CAMDA conference contains a competitive challenge on Big Data in life sciences. Extracting usable knowledge from Big Data is an extremely pressing topic which requires advanced data mining, machine learning, statistical, and data management techniques. The challenge includes the analysis of large toxicogenomic and genetic data obtained by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). Relevant tasks for the toxicogenomics data include, but are not limited to, feature selection, classification, regression, and clustering. Relevant tasks for the NGS data set, include, but are not limited to, variant detection, identical by descent detection, structural variants detection, and population genetics. To facilitate the data handling, we provide the data set in several formats: - CSV (toxicogenomics) - LIBSVM (toxicogenomics) - VCF (NGS data) - EXCEL Sheet (annotation data and labels) which are ready to use e.g., for binary classification. The raw data is provided as - CEL files (Affymetrix microarray measurements) - BAM files (NGS data) IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline for oral presentation / 20 May 2013 - Abstract submission deadline for poster presentation / 25 May 2013 - CAMDA Conference / 19?20 July 2013 You find additional information about the challenge data sets, submissions, etc. at the conference website: http://www.camda.info We look forward to a lively contest! The organizers and chairs of CAMDA 2013 Chairs: Joaquin Dopazo, CIPF, Spain Sepp Hochreiter, Johannes Kepler University, Austria David Kreil, Boku University, Austria Simon Lin, Marshfield Clinic, U.S.A. Local organizer: Djork-Arn? Clevert, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Contact: camda at bioinf.jku.at Conference website: http://www.camda.info From cannataro at unicz.it Mon Mar 25 13:36:57 2013 From: cannataro at unicz.it (Mario Cannataro) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:36:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [BiO BB] Euro-Par 2013 - 4th International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB) In-Reply-To: <5ef1e4bd7aebe7bd69da47a45ee9d058.squirrel@email.unicz.it> References: <49488aa30fce78e7e8b644f2b6443229.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <0b90f151c841a8029f34aa95146d4a02.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <637f7d51898906671cc8ef02e2be2ccc.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <2bfa571d2421ca5842919c2d8038f74e.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <057ca61063d2df86dbfedb3f33fe06f8.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <29b4f0ef371de5adb52505f83a1d153a.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <8a9b80c485a3eac1ad09c3134eb1841d.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <5ef1e4bd7aebe7bd69da47a45ee9d058.squirrel@email.unicz.it> Message-ID: <8e6a0eaa020399bfb82507040c017757.squirrel@email.unicz.it> I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ===================================================================== 4th International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB) http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/hibb2013/ held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013 Aachen, Germany August 26-30, 2013 http://www.europar2013.org ===================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ===================================================================== High-throughput technologies (e.g. microarray and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging) are producing an increasing amount of experimental and clinical data. In such a scenario, large-scale databases and bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine. High-performance computing may play an important role in many phases of life sciences research, from raw data management and processing, to data analysis and integration, till data exploration and visualization. In particular, at the raw data layer, Grid infrastructures may offer the huge data storage needed to store experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. At an higher layer, emerging biomedical applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks and patient?s clinical data, that require seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing. Service Oriented Architectures and semantic technologies, such as ontologies, may allow the building and deployment of the so-called ?collaboratories? where remote scientists may conduct experimental research in a collaborative way. The goal of HiBB is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance computing, computational biology and medicine to discuss, among the others, the organization of large-scale biological and biomedical databases and the parallel implementation of bioinformatics algorithms and biomedical applications. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of biomedical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models (e.g. Cell, GPUs) for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes PROGRAM The workshop will take place on August 26 or 27, 2013 (To Be Announced). It is scheduled as half-day. The program is not available yet. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION We invite original previously unpublished contributions. Submission implies that at least one author will register for the workshops at Euro-Par 2013 and present the paper in the workshop session, if accepted. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Download LNCS Latex style here (ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip). Springer's author guidelines are available here. Paper submission has to be performed by using the HiBB-2013 EasyChair submission server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hibb2013). In case of problems, authors may send their manuscript in PDF to the workshop chair: cannataro AT unicz.it. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (Latex or Word). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshops proceedings that will be published in a separate Springer LNCS Euro-Par 2013 Workshop volume after the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign up a Springer copyright form. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE At the end of the workshop, we plan to invite the best 4-6 papers of the workshop for a special section on an international journal. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop papers due: May 31, 2013 Workshop author notification: July 8, 2013 Revised papers to be distributed at the workshop due: July 29, 2013 Workshop session: August 26 or 27, 2013 Important dates for EuroPar Workshop Proceedings preparation Workshop camera-ready papers for Euro-Par Workshop Proceedings due: October 3, 2013 WORKSHOP ORGANIZER Mario Cannataro, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 2. David A. Bader, College of Computing, Georgia University of Technology, USA 3. Ignacio Blanquer; Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 4. Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University, USA 5. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK 6. Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA 7. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 8. Vicente Hern?ndez, Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain 9. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 10. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK 11. Richard Sinnott; National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom 12. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 13. Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve University, USA 14. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 15. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia From mourad.elloumi at gmail.com Sun Mar 24 09:22:51 2013 From: mourad.elloumi at gmail.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:22:51 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] introductory book In-Reply-To: <8bf8eb1f111b6ead07541dbeb3165b69.cm1@countermail.com> References: <8bf8eb1f111b6ead07541dbeb3165b69.cm1@countermail.com> Message-ID: Here is another one : Mourad Elloumi. _____________________________________________________________ Mobile : +216 55 20 04 62 Skype : Mourad.Elloumi E.Mail : Mourad.Elloumi at gmail.com Blog : http://mourad-elloumi.blogspot.com/ _____________________________________________________________ On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM, wrote: > > Can you suggest an introductory book on Bioinformatics? > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > BBB at bioinformatics.org > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > From jhuan at ittc.ku.edu Mon Mar 25 20:00:27 2013 From: jhuan at ittc.ku.edu (Jun (Luke) Huan) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:00:27 -0500 Subject: [BiO BB] IEEE International Conference on BigData Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <00f501ce29b4$ecff00b0$c6fd0210$@ittc.ku.edu> Apology for cross-posting Call for Workshop Proposals? ? ? ? ?? 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data? http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/index.htm October 6-9, 2013, Silicon Valley, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013) invite proposals for Workshops. ?Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger Conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at BigData form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. ?All papers accepted for workshops will be?included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference.? ? ? ? ?? The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. ?Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of ? authors of accepted papers.? ? ? ? ?? Workshop Topics Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. ?The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. ?Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2013 http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/topics.htm for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. Important Dates? April 5, 2012: Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the ?Workshop Chairs April 15, 2012: Notification to workshop proposers? May 30 , 2012: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers? Guidelines for Workshop Proposals? Proposals for 2013 IEEE BigData Workshops should contain the following components. ?? ? ? ?? 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, Please do not change the camera-ready date) July 30, 2012: Due date for full workshop papers submission August 20, 2012: Notification of paper acceptance to authors? September 10, 2012: Camera-ready of accepted papers? October 6-9: Workshops? 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) Workshop Chairs:? Prof. Xueqi Chen, Institute of Computing Tech. Chinese Academia of Science Email: cxq at ict.ac.cn Prof. Jun (Luke) Huan, Univ. of Kansas, USA Email: jhuan at ittc.ku.edu Dr. Andrew Lewis, Brisbane University, Australia Email: a.lewis at griffith.edu.au