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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical
Systems </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Special Track: </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
size=2>BIOINFORMATICS and its MEDICAL APPLICATIONS</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=2><A
href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/CBMS_Bioinformatics.html">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/CBMS_Bioinformatics.html</A></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Major computational challenges have been raised in
the post-genomic era. Novel computational methods and approaches are required to
acquire, store, organize, archive, analyse and visualize the large amount of
biological and biomedical data. The goal of the track is to share ideas related
to bioinformatics challenge among biological, biomedical and computer
scientists. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Authors are invited to submit original papers
addressing any computational biology issue. Papers are invited (but not limited)
to the following key themes:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Biomedical Research </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Evolution and Phylogenetics </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Data Mining in Bioinformatics </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Microarray Analysis </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RNAi Analysis </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sequence Alignment </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Functional Genomics </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Visualization </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Protein Structure and Analysis </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Comparative Genomics </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pattern Recognition </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Software Systems </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>January 26, 2005 - Submission of (6-page,
maximum) paper<BR> <BR>March 1, 2005 - Notification of
acceptance<BR> <BR>March 24, 2005 - Final camera-ready paper
due<BR> <BR>March 24, 2005 - Pre-registration deadline<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>You must pre-register to have your paper published in the
proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper,
pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited,
and registration may not be available on-site.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR PAPER</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No hardcopy submissions are being accepted.
Electronic submissions of original technical research papers will only be
accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. Use a maximum of six A4
pages, including figures and references. Include one cover sheet, stating the
paper title, authors, technical area(s) covered in the article, corresponding
author's information (telephone, fax, mailing address, e-mail address), and your
preference for oral or poster presentation. Author names should appear only on
the cover sheet, not on the summary. Submit your manuscript no later than
January 26, 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 2005 after
a review process by three independent experts. Each accepted paper will be
published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press, conditional upon the
author's advance registration. Submission in the IEEE Computer Science Press
6x9-inch format is encouraged. Formatting instructions, LaTeX macros and MSWord
templates are available at <A
href="ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings">ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings</A>.<BR>Authors
should indicate the special track title (on the cover sheet). All submissions
should be done electronically via the IEEE CBMS 2005 web submission system at:
<A
href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/mlg/CBMS2005/openconf">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/mlg/CBMS2005/openconf</A>.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TRACK CHAIR</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nadia Bolshakova -Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Francisco Azuaje - University of Ulster,
Northern Ireland <BR>Joaquín Dopazo - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones
Oncológicas, Spain <BR>Mario A. Fares -NUI Maynooth, Ireland <BR>Des
Higgins -University College Dublin, Ireland <BR>Fernando
Martin-Sanchez -Institute of Health "Carlos III", Spain <BR>Manolis
Tsiknakis - Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, FORTH, Greece
<BR> <BR> <BR>For further questions, please contact <A
href="mailto:Nadia.Bolshakova@cs.tcd.ie">Nadia.Bolshakova@cs.tcd.ie</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>