September 7th, 2014
Strasbourg, France (official workshop of ECCB 2014)
http://cmsr2014.wordpress.com

SCOPE

Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) play key roles in various aspects of the gene transcription and regulation processes, and are the focus of an ever-increasing interest in all areas of molecular biology. Deciphering the function of a non-protein coding RNA requires an intimate knowledge of its structure, motivating the development of structure-centric analyses.

This workshop aims to gather researchers and students, developing or using computational methods for predicting RNA structures or analyzing their contribution to biological processes. It will provide a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art methods and tools using discrete representations of folding landscapes in the context of big data. It will contribute to establish best-practices towards a better support for large-scale data within structure-centric algorithms.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission opens: April 24st, 2014
Paper Submission deadline: June 1st, 2014
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 23rd, 2014
Final version of accepted papers: July 7th, 2014

Proceedings of the workshop will be published in a special issue of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). A selection of regular papers will be invited, but not required, to submit an edited version of the manuscript to the Journal of Computational Biology with high priority publishing. Authors of accepted papers (regular papers and highlights) will be given the opportunity to present their work at the workshop.

Submission guidelines: Contributions should be uploaded on the conference EasyChair instalment at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsr14