Biotechnology
and Bioinformatics Symposium
Call
for Papers
The 5th Annual Biotechnology and
Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2008) will be held in Arlington, Texas, on
October 17 and 18, 2008.
History
The symposium started in Colorado Springs in 2004 and
was held at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs in 2004, 2005 and
2007.
In 2006 it took place at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Started
as a regional event, the symposium now attracts paper and poster contributions
from all over
the United States and several foreign countries, from authors of diverse
scientific backgrounds.
Selected papers from the Symposium have been published in special issues of the
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
Because of its true multidisciplinary orientation and the high quality of the
presented work, the interest in this symposium and its reputation have been
steadily growing over the years.
Objectives
The symposium's objective is to showcase research and
development activities in bioinformatics and computational biology, and
biotechnology, and to promote future interdisciplinary activity and research in
these areas. Like previous years, BIOT-2008 will
bring together scientists, engineers and other practitioners from
biotechnology, bioinformatics and the medical research community.
Each field that BIOT
attracts has its own tradition. For example, in computer science, it is
customary to require the submission of full papers for review several months
prior to a conference or symposium. Conferences in other disciplines generally
require that an abstract or extended abstract be submitted for review. The
organizing committee of BIOT understands these differences, and the speakers
will be invited from both accepted papers and posters, although for posters
it will be only the abstract printed in the appendix to the
conference proceedings (for more
details, please see the Call for Posters). Paper submissions are invited as
either short or full papers.
Major
themes, areas and suggested topics
We invite contributions
in any
area of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, theoretical as well as practical.
The topics of interest include: 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 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, Pathways, Pattern
recognition, Phylogenetics, Physiology, Population biology, Promoter analysis
and discovery, Protein structure and analysis, RNAi analysis, Sequence
alignments, SNPs, Systems biology, Theoretical and mathematical biology.
Additional topics include Commercial applications of biotechnology and
bioinformatics, Industrial applications of biotechnology and bioinformatics,
Legal impacts of biotechnology and bioinformatics, Social impacts of
bioinformatics and biotechnology, Technology transfer and Venture capital for
biotechnology and bioinformatics industry,.
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 full papers
concentrating on computational techniques, algorithms, models or enginnering
solutions must have them validated on real biological data sets. However,
short papers 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.
Manuscripts will be considered in two categories: short papers and full papers.
Short papers must be 5 or 6 pages in length, single-spaced, and in 2-column
format. 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 poster
abstracts, and submissions longer than 10 pages will be rejected without
review. For manuscript preparation, please use
the IEEE author style available at
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.
All submitted manuscripts must
show the names of the authors, their mailing and electronic addresses, and up
to 3 keywords.
All papers must contain an abstract or summary followed by
other sections.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members
expert in the relevant area, so it is essential that the abstract and keywords
provide enough information for the assignment of the most appropriate reviewers.
Final Version
Submission
If your manuscript is accepted, you will be asked to revise it in accordance
with the reviewer's comments and submit in the IEEE Transactions author style,
single-spaced, 2-column format. Final version of a short paper should be up to
6 pages in length, although it can be extended to 8 (however, if you would
need that extension you should have it approved by the Conference Chair prior
to the submission). Final version of a full paper should be up to 10 pages in
length, although it can be extended to 12 (however, if you would
need that extension you should have it approved by the Conference Chair prior
to the submission).
The final version must show the names of the authors, their
mailing and electronic addresses, and up to 3 keywords on the top page.
Each
paper must contain an abstract or summary followed by
other sections.
You
must submit a camera-ready paper by the date specified below. The papers will
be printed in the Symposium proceedings. At least one of the authors must
register for the event before the final submission can be accepted.
Submission Procedure
PDF
submissions are accepted through an automated submission system .
Journal
Publication
Extended versions of the
best full papers from BIOT-2008 will be published in the
International Journal of
Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA). Please note that short
papers will not
be considered for journal publication.
Important Dates
.
Submission deadline: June 6, 2008
.
Acceptance decision: July 7, 2008
.
Final papers due
after revision: August 8, 2008
.
Symposium date: October 17 and 18, 2008
Hosted by:
University of Texas at Arlington
Contact:
Nikola Stojanovic
nick@cse.uta.edu, (817) 272-7627
Location:
University of Texas at Arlington
This page last updated on: February 17, 2008