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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical
Systems </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Special Track: BIOINFORMATICS and its MEDICAL
APPLICATIONS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Special Track Webpage: <A
href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/CBMS_Bioinformatics06.html">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Nadia.Bolshakova/CBMS_Bioinformatics06.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Major computational challenges have been raised in
the post-genomic era. Novel computational <BR>methods and approaches are
required to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyse and visualize <BR>the
large amount of biological and biomedical data. The goal of the track is to
share ideas related <BR>to bioinformatics challenge among biological, biomedical
and computer scientists. <BR>Authors are invited to submit original papers
addressing any computational biology issue. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Papers are invited (but not limited) to the
following key themes:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Biomedical Research <BR>Evolution and Phylogenetics
<BR>Data Mining in Bioinformatics <BR>Microarray Analysis <BR>RNAi Analysis
<BR>Sequence Alignment <BR>Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology <BR>Functional
Genomics <BR>Visualization <BR>Protein Structure and Analysis <BR>Comparative
Genomics <BR>Pattern Recognition <BR>Ontologies <BR>Software Systems
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unlike workshops, where position papers and reports
on initial and intended work are appropriate, <BR>papers selected for a special
track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for <BR>publication
as a conference paper. More information about the symposium, registration fees,
venue <BR>can be found here: <A
href="http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu">http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu</A>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>January 31, 2006 Submission of (6-page,
maximum) paper<BR>March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance<BR>April,
5, 2006 Final camera-ready paper due<BR>April, 8,
2006 Pre-registration deadline<BR>May 22, 2006 Hotel room
reservations due</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You must pre-register to have your paper published
in the proceedings. If you only plan to <BR>attend and are not submitting a
paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. <BR>This conference is
space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR PAPER</DIV>
<DIV>No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of
original technical research papers <BR>will only be accepted in PDF format. File
size is limited to 2 MB. Use a maximum of six A4 pages, including <BR>figures
and references. Include one cover sheet, stating the track title (Special Track
on Bioinformatics <BR>and its Medical Applications), paper title, authors,
technical area(s) covered in the article, corresponding <BR>author's information
(telephone, fax, mailing address, e-mail address), and your preference for oral
or <BR>poster presentation. Author names should appear only on the cover sheet,
not on the paper. Submit your <BR>manuscript no later than January 31, 2006.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 2006 after <BR>a review
process by three independent experts. Each accepted paper to the Special
Track on Bioinformatics <BR>and its Medical Applications will be published in
the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press, conditional <BR>upon the author's
advance registration. Papers that were not accepted by the Program Committee of
the track <BR>can be considered for publication as regular submissions by the
General Program Committee of IEEE CBMS 2006. <BR>Please note that the format of
IEEE CBMS 2006 proceedings will be the IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch
<BR>format. Submission is encouraged in this format. For more details please see
the website of <BR>IEEE CBMS 2006: (<A
href="http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/how.html#submission">http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/how.html#submission</A>).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>All submissions will be done electronically via the CBMS web submission
system.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>TRACK CHAIR</DIV>
<DIV>Nadia Bolshakova -Trinity College Dublin, Ireland </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE</DIV>
<DIV>Francisco Azuaje, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland<BR>Nadia
Bolshakova, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<BR>Fernando Martin-Sanchez,
Institute of Health "Carlos III", Spain <BR>James McInerney, National University
of Ireland<BR>Heather Ruskin, Dublin City University, Ireland<BR> <BR>For
further questions, please contact <A
href="mailto:Nadia.Bolshakova@cs.tcd.ie">Nadia.Bolshakova@cs.tcd.ie</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>