Monday, June 25, 2012

Call for Participation: The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012



                      Call For Participation

                           BIOCOMP'12
        The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics
                    and Computational Biology

                 July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA


This is an invitation to attend BIOCOMP'12 Conference. BIOCOMP'12 is an important part of WORLDCOMP'12 Congress (a federated congress). The Congress is composed of 22 main tracks (9 tutorials, 188 sessions and workshops, and 39 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. We anticipate about
2,000 attendees for the Congress: 62% from academia; 24% from industry; 11% from government agencies; and 3% unknown. About half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 88 different countries. Speakers are affiliated with 320 academic institutions, 89 major corporations, and multiple government agencies.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information
D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students E. List of Co-Sponsors F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs G. Location of BIOCOMP H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes

We look forward to seeing you in July.
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A. General Information - select the tab "BIOCOMP"
   Or go directly to:

B. Topical Scope of BIOCOMP'12 (list of topics that appeared in CFP):

   Microarrays; Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions
   Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly; Molecular
   sequence and structure databases; Computational Systems Biology; Gene
   regulation; Gene pattern discovery and identification; Gene expression
   analysis; Gene expression databases; Genetic network modeling and
   inference; Comparative genomics; Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences;
   RNA and DNA structure and sequencing; Biomedical engineering; Combinatorics
   and bioinformatics; Biological data mining and knowledge discovery;
   Biological databases and information retrieval; Bio-ontologies + semantics;
   Biological data integration and visualization; Image processing in medicine
   and biological sciences; Pattern classification and recognition; Sequence
   analysis and alignment; Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical
   Research; Software tools and methods for computational biology and
   bioinformatics; Protein modeling; Proteomics; Protein folding and fold
   recognition; Metabolic modeling and pathways; Evolution and phylogenetics;
   Macromolecular structure prediction; Medical informatics; Epidemic models;
   Structural and functional genomics; Amino acid sequencing; Stochastic
   modeling; Cheminformatics; Computational drug discovery; Experimental
   medicine and analysis tools; Personalized medicine; Cancer informatics;
   Graph theory and computational biology; Experimental studies and results;
   Application of computational intelligence in drug design; High-performance
   computing and applications in biology; Computer-based medical systems
   (automation in medicine, ...).

C. Registration Information:

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students:

   The congress has finalized the financial assistantship decisions for students
   who are affiliated with non-USA institutions (decisions were communicated
   with the awardees in March and April 2012). Unfortunately, 26 of the awardees
   are not able to secure USA visa in a timely manner to attend the meeting. The
   congress is now providing these 26 slots to full-time graduate students who
   are enrolled in USA institutions. This financial assistantship is for
   attendance only (ie, excludes speakers and authors of papers). Sponsored
   students will receive the complete conference package (printed books/proceedings,
   CD, dinner reception, 4 breakfasts, 12 refreshments, access to all tracks and
   tutorials, ...), registration fee waiver, partial help with hotel accommodation,
   and/or possibly some help with airfare. In order to apply, send the following
   information for consideration to sc@world-comp.org as soon as possible
   (include as attachments in pdf only): a 2-page CV; a letter from your major
   professor or Department Head/Chair stating that you are a full-time graduate
   student in good standing; and a break-down of your itemized costs (airfare,
   hotel, ...). In the Subject Header of your email write "student sponsorship".
   Award decisions will be finalized within 24 hours of receipt of the requested
   information.

E. List of Co-Sponsors:
   Appears on the right-most column of Home Page below:

F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs: (look for BIOCOMP)

G. Location of BIOCOMP:

H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes: (WORLDCOMP)

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Deadline of June 4, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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           CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 4, 2012

                 The 2012 International Conference on
               Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
                              BIOCOMP'12

                   July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages) for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The conference proceedings
will be made available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/
data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that BIOCOMP is part of
enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored
by various associations and groups as well as centers, large labs, and
institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason University,
Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of Minnesota,
US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel
Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors
who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their
papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were
emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent to them).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to different deadlines; those
who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines mentioned on the
web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference web site because we
would like to control the number of submissions - we can only manage a limited
number of additional submissions at this late date). What appears below are
the current deadlines.

June 4, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
                    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
                    uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
                    http://world-comp.org
June 17, 2012:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 27, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
                    Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12)

July 30, 2012:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
                    (papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
                    will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
                    will go to press soon after the conference.)

Those who wish to participate as attendees can register to attend the conference
by using the online registration system below:


SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Microarrays
O  Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions
O  Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly
O  Molecular sequence and structure databases
O  Computational Systems Biology
O  Gene regulation
O  Gene pattern discovery and identification
O  Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases
O  Genetic network modeling and inference
O  Comparative genomics
O  Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
O  RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
O  Biomedical engineering
O  Combinatorics and bioinformatics
O  Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
O  Biological databases and information retrieval
O  Bio-ontologies + semantics
O  Biological data integration and visualization
O  Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
O  Pattern classification and recognition
O  Sequence analysis and alignment
O  Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
O  Software tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics
O  Protein modeling
O  Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition
O  Metabolic modeling and pathways
O  Evolution and phylogenetics
O  Macromolecular structure prediction
O  Medical informatics
O  Epidemic models
O  Structural and functional genomics
O  Amino acid sequencing
O  Stochastic modeling
O  Cheminformatics
O  Computational drug discovery
O  Experimental medicine and analysis tools.
O  Personalized medicine
O  Cancer informatics
O  Graph theory and computational biology
O  Experimental studies and results
O  Application of computational intelligence in drug design
O  High-performance computing and applications in biology
O  Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
O  Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements
   in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.

SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by June 4, 2012 and must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and
references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers
will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first
page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should
also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of
the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must
be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, BIOCOMP) as well as a 100 to
150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if
accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core
scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals;
only about 9% are proceedings; the set of proceedings that BIOCOMP is part
of has been selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar,
Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.
Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in
EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings that BIOCOMP
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers. These books
will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be
forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. For a
few examples of such recent books and journal issues formed based on BIOCOMP,
see the links below:
+ a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics:

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final
Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the
conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship
the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the
conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4043

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper
is being submitted as a poster for BIOCOMP". Poster papers (if accepted) will
be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have
his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

BIOCOMP conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. The congress will be composed of research
presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan),
Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.  of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe
(Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer
of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of
Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California),
Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL
Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC,
CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available

An important mission of the congress is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared;
for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. BIOCOMP 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:

CONTACT:

Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org