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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:
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