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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
The Fourth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference <br>
Taipei, Taiwan 13-16 February 2006 <br>
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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. <br>
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. <br><br>
Topics of Interest <br>
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics: <br>
• Novel Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics <br>
• Data Mining & Statistical Modeling of Biological Data <br>
• Computational Analysis of Biological Data <br>
• Modeling and Simulation of Biological Processes <br>
• Visualization of Biological Processes and Data <br>
• Management, Migration, and Integration of Biological Databases <br>
• Access, Indexing, and Search in Biological Databases <br>
• Pathways and Systems Biology <br>
• Structural Bioinformatics <br>
• Statistical Genetics and Genomics <br>
• Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Biology<br><br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
Full Paper Submission Deadline Jul 15, 2005 <br>
Notification of Paper Acceptance Aug 20, 2005 <br>
Tutorial proposals Aug 25, 2005 <br>
Camera Ready Papers Due Sep 10, 2005 <br>
Author Registration Sep 10, 2005 <br>
Poster & demo proposals Sep 20 2005 <br>
Conference Feb 13 2006 ~ Feb 16 2006<br><br>
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS <br>
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Deakin University) <br>
Wen-Hsiung Li (The University of Chicago) <br>
Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research)<br><br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS <br>
Tao Jiang, University of California Riverside <br>
Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University <br><br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE <br>
Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto University) <br>
Vineet Bafna (University of California San Diego) <br>
Paola Bonnizoni (Universita' degli Studi di Milano) <br>
David Bryant (McGill University/Niversity of Auckland) <br>
Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University) <br>
Francis Chin (Hong-Kong University) <br>
Ross Coppel (Monash University) <br>
Michael Cummings (University of Maryland) <br>
Bhaskar DasGupta (University of Illinois Chicago) <br>
Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal) <br>
Janice Glasgow (Queens University) <br>
Sridhar Hannenhalli (University of Pennsylvania) <br>
Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica) <br>
Haiyan Huang (University of California Berkeley) <br>
Ming-Jing Hwang (Academia Sinica) <br>
John Kececioglu (University of Arizona) <br>
Chris Langmead (Carnegie Mellon University) <br>
Sang-Yup Lee (Korea Adv. Institute of Sci. & Technology) <br>
Jinyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research) <br>
Jing Li (Case Western Reserve University) <br>
Guohui Lin (University of Alberta) <br>
Stefano Lonardi (University of California Riverside) <br>
Horng-Shing Lu (National Chao-Tung University) <br>
Bin Ma (University of Western Ontario) <br>
Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo) <br>
Laxmi Parida ( IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) <br>
Kunsoo Park (Seoul National University) <br>
Christian Pedersen (University of Aarhus) <br>
Alexander Schliep (Max Planck Institute for Mol. Genetics) <br>
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie University) <br>
Christian Schoenbach (RIKEN) <br>
Larry Ruzzo (University of Washington) <br>
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong-Kong) <br>
Wei Wang (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) <br>
Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University) <br>
Michael Zhang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) <br>
Yang Zhong (Fudan University) <br>
Xianghong Zhou (University of Southern California)<br>
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS <br>
Jorng-Tzong Horng (National Central University) <br>
Cheng-Yan Kao (National Taiwan University)<br><br>
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES <br>
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. <br>
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