CALL FOR PAPERS
EXTENDED
Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2013
BIOCOMP'13
The 2013
International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
Indexing:
Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...
INDEXING:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been
evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI
databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation
index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the
BIOCOMP proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier
indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex,
Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). In
addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science
citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.
INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper or poster paper
for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed
conference books/ proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online.
Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear
in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
BMC, and others). In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and
Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a
significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given
the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in these books. The web sites for the two book series will be
made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the
publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) We anticipate having
between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book
in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing
products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...). 264248
BIOCOMP'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including:
tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials
are free to registered conference attendees - for a partial list of approved
tutorials,
The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
O Microarrays
O Bioinformatics
and Big Data
O Big Data in
genomics and cancer research O
Bioinformatics and new cloud resources 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 and experimental
medicine O Cancer informatics 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.
IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED:
April 20, 2013:
Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:
The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13)
*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive
their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11,
2013.
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of March 14, 2013, papers published in Congress
proceedings that BIOCOMP is part of, have received 27,591 citations (includes
3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
.
SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:
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 April 20, 2013 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 (ie, BIOCOMP) must also be stated on the
first page of the paper 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.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the
field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee
would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would
involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a
member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type,
or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels/presentation).
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 include: relevant Elsevier
indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); Inspec /
IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National
Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from
INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
International); and others.
The printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the conference - online/soft versions will also be made
available world-wide.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and
Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a
significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given
the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a
year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be
subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).
SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS)
except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author
should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster
papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted
paper wishes to do so.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
BIOCOMP is an international conference that serves
researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are
looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest
research results.
It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences; namely, The 2013 World Congress in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more
attendees from over 85 countries.
The 2013 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), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad
Institute of MIT & 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.), Prof. Haym
Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of
Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr.
Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other
distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see
the 2012 delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
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.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org