Call for Papers (BLSC07)

The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07)

 

Niagara Falls, Canada

May 21-23, 2007

 

Sponsored by

IEEE Technical Committee Distributed Processing (TCDP)

 

SCOPE

 

The aim of this symposium is to facilitate exchange of ideas and collaborations between computer scientists and biologists by presenting cutting-edge solutions of Modeling,  Computing and Learning in Biology and Life Science. We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics and life science with an interdisciplinary character. For example, computer science and mathematical modeling papers should contain a concise description of the biological problem being solved, and biology papers should show the enhancement of computation tools.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED)

 

-         Data Integration for Microarray Analysis

-         Optimization in Metabolic Pathway

-         Molecular Dynamics

-         Comparative Genomics

-         Protein Structure Prediction

-         Biological Systems as Reactive Systems

-         Algorithms for Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny Reconstruction

-         Genome Annotation Using Software Agents

-         Image Processing for Biomedical Applications

-         Biotechnology Modeling: from Processes to ODEs

-         Mathematical Models of Cancer Immunotherapy

-         Stochastic Dynamics of Gene Networks

-         Hidden Markov Models with Application in Biology

-         High Performance Bio-Computing

-         ODEs in Biological Compartments

-         Biological Applications of Data-Mining and Machine Learning Techniques

-         Quantum-Chemical Calculations

-         E-Learning in Biology

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

-         Submission deadline: December 1, 2006

-         Paper acceptance decision: February 1, 2007

-         Final revised draft due to publisher: February 19, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

 

Full papers are limited to 15 pages, single-spaced, in 12-point type, including title, abstract (250 words or less), figures, tables, text, and bibliography. The first page should give keywords, authors’ postal and electronic mailing addresses. Papers must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

 

Papers should be submitted electronically in MS Word, postscript, or PDF format. Information about paper submissions can be found at http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~blsc07/.

 

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting  the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper is requested to register and present their work at the conference.

 

All accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in proceedings that will be distributed at the symposium. In addition, authors of selected papers from the symposium will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.

 

PROCEEDINGS

 

Proceedings of the conference will be published by IEEE CS.


For Further information, please contact: BLSC@googlegroups.com

 

ORGANIZING & PROGRAM COMMITTEES

 

General Co-Chairs:

Vipin Chaudhary, SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Jacques Demongeot, TIMC Grenoble, France

Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

 

Program Co-Chairs:

Andrei Doncescu, LAAS, National Center for Scientific Research, France

Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia

Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA


Program Committee Members:

TBA