Call for
Papers and Posters
The 6th Annual
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2009) will be held at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska) on October 9 and 10, 2009. Following the symposium will be the first
workshop for the NSF-funded project to develop the Semantic Cyberinfrastructure
for Investigation and Discovery (SCID).
Biotechnology sessions of BIOT-2009 will be co-sponsored by the Center for Plant Science Innovation at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Major
themes, areas, and suggested topics for BIOT-2009
We invite contributions in any
area of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, theoretical as well as practical. The
topics of interest include (but not limited to): analysis of complex biological
systems, bioenergetics, biomedical research, biotechnology, cellular function,
comparative genomics, data mining in bioinformatics and biotechnology,
databases in bioinformatics and biotechnology, drug delivery systems, evolution
models, functional genomics, genetics, gene identification, genomics, high
performance computing in bioinformatics and biotechnology, mathematical
biology, mathematical and computational models of cellular systems, mathematical
models of biophysical processes, mathematical physiology, microarray analysis,
molecular function, molecular sequence and structure, neural circuits modeling,
ontologies for bioinformatics and biotechnology, pathway analysis, pattern
recognition, phylogenetics, physiology, population biology, promoter analysis
and discovery, protein structure and analysis, RNAi analysis, sequence
alignments, SNPs, and systems biology.
This year the following topics
are particularly emphasized in BIOT-2009:
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Machine learning
application in bioinformatics
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Distributed database,
semantic Web, and ontologies
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Intelligent user interface and decision support
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Omics approaches
and systems biology
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High-throughput
sequencing technologies and related data analysis
·
RNA interference,
microRNA, epigenetics
·
Bioinformatics
application in plant science and plan biotechnology
·
Molecular evolution, phylogeny, and phylogenomics
·
Education in
computational biology and bioinformatics
Submissions
Submitted papers
must report significant research results, findings, or advances within their
own fields. Papers with focus on biological, biochemistry or biophysics
discovery must concern research having a significant in silico component
(such as the use of databases, software tools or novel technologies), and
papers concentrating on computational techniques, algorithms, models or
engineering solutions must have them validated on real biological data sets.
Abstracts may report significant work in progress, for which full validation
has not yet been performed. Since the symposium is geared toward a diverse
audience of biologists, physicians, computer scientists, chemists, engineers,
technology transfer professionals, graduate students, professors and
researchers from the industry, the papers or abstracts must be presented in a
lucid manner accessible to such individuals.
Full paper
preparation
Full papers must be
7 to 10 pages in length, single-spaced, and in 2-column format. Manuscripts
shorter than 5 pages will be considered as abstracts (see Abstracts submission below), and submissions longer than 10 pages
will be rejected without review. Please use the templates provided below or
follow the instruction included. All accepted full papers will
be printed in the Symposium proceedings.
Abstract preparation
Abstracts will be considered in two
categories: 2-page abstracts for oral presentation and 1-page abstracts for
posters.
2-page
abstracts must provide enough detail and
they will be peer reviewed. Please
use the templates provided below or follow the instructions included. All
accepted 2-page abstracts for oral presentation will be printed in the
Symposium proceedings. For 1-page poster
abstracts, follow the instructions provided in the example file provided
below. 2-page abstracts not chosen for oral presentation will be considered for
posters.
BIOT-2009 Template and instruction files
(links to download)
Instructions to
prepare papers and abstracts are included in the files below. Download
appropriate files and follow the instructions. Papers and abstracts not
following the specified formats will not be considered further.
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Paper |
2-Page
Abstract (Oral Presentation) |
1-Page
Abstract (Poster) |
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Instruction (PDF for Word and PDF for LaTex) |
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NA |
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Submission
procedure
All
submissions are accepted in PDF
only. After preparing your papers and abstracts in the required format, convert
your file in PDF. The submissions are accepted through our automated submission system at: http://www.biotconf.org/papersubmission
(will be available in May)
Fill in the author
names, their mailing and electronic addresses, and up to 3 keywords. All
submissions except for 1-page poster abstracts are also required to supply a
short abstract (up to 200 words). The keywords and short abstracts will be used
for selection of reviewers who are expert in the relevant area. Thus it is
essential that the short abstract and keywords provide enough information on
the submitted work.
Final
version submission (for full papers)
If your manuscript
is accepted, you will be asked to revise it in accordance with the reviewer's
comments and submit the final version. The final
version of a full paper should be up to 10 pages in length. If it is
necessary and if it is approved, it can be extended to 12 pages. Contact the BIOT-2009 organizing committee (see
below) for the approval if your manuscript needs to be longer than 10 pages. You must submit a paper in PDF by the date specified below. The final
version of the accepted papers will be printed in the Symposium proceedings.
Author registration
At least one of the authors must register for the event before the final
submission can be accepted.
Journal
publication
Extended versions
of the best full papers from BIOT-2009
will be published in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and
Applications (IJBRA). Abstracts (either for oral presentation or for
posters) are not considered for journal publication.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline for full papers and 2-page
abstracts (for oral presentation): July
22, 2009 (EXTENDED)
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Acceptance decision: August 20, 2009
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Final papers due after revision: September 10, 2009
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Abstracts deadline (for posters): September 10, 2009
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Symposium date: October
9 and 10, 2009
BIOT-2009 is
co-organized by:
Etsuko Moriyama emoriyama2@unl.edu
Stephen Scott sscott@cse.unl.edu
Leen-Kiat Soh lksoh@cse.unl.edu
Location: City Union, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
This page last updated on:
January 31, 2009