Biotechnology
and Bioinformatics Symposium
Call
for Posters - Closed for extended abstracts, short still
accepted
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 Papers).
Poster presentations can be done with (extended peer-reviewed abstract
necessary, please see below) or without a podium talk.
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 abstracts must report original research
results, findings or advances within their own fields.
Posters with focus on biological, biochemistry or biophysics discovery must
concern research having an in silico component (such as
the use of databases, software tools or novel technologies), and these
concentrating on computational techniques, algorithms, models or enginnering
solutions should report the results on biological data sets.
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 talks
must be presented in a lucid manner accessible to such individuals.
Poster abstracts will be considered in two categories: short abstracts and
extended abstracts.
Short abstracts must be of at most 2 pages, with no
specific format requirements (they must be well organized, spell-checked and
properly typeset, though), and they should be submitted by the short
poster abstract deadline specified below. Short abstracts will not be peer
reviewed, but at least one of the authors must be registered for the event
before a short abstract can be accepted.
Extended abstracts should be submitted
by authors interested in giving a podium talk. They must be 3 to 4
pages long, providing enough detail (including the summary and keywords) for
the proper assignment of reviewers and the peer review itself. Submissions
longer than 4 pages will be considered papers (please see the Call for Papers).
Extended abstracts submitted for peer review can be written in a format of
author's choosing, but they
must be submitted as PDF documents through the automated
submission system.
Each extended abstract
will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members
expert in the relevant area.
Final Version
Submission for Extended Abstracts
If your extended abstract is accepted for a podium talk,
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.
For manuscript preparation, please use
the IEEE author style available at
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.
Final version of an extended abstract
should be up to
6 pages in length.
It must show the names of the authors, their
mailing and electronic addresses, up to 3 keywords and a summary
on the top page.
You
must submit a camera-ready version by the date specified below. The
extended abstracts selected for talks will be
printed in a special section of
the Symposium proceedings. At least one of the authors must
register for the event before the final submission can be accepted.
Submission Procedure
Extended abstracts (in PDF format)
are accepted through an automated submission system .
Short abstracts can be submitted either through the automated system, or by
e-mail to
nick@cse.uta.edu. At least one of the authors must register for the
event before a short abstract can be accepted, and only registered individuals
will be allowed to present a poster at the conference.
Journal
Publication
Poster abstracts (either short or extended) from BIOT-2008 will not be
considered for journal publication. If you are interested in that opportunity,
please consider submitting a full paper (see Call for Papers).
Important Dates
.
Submission deadline for extended abstracts:
.
Talk acceptance decision for extended abstracts:
.
Final version of extended abstracts due
after revision:
.
Short abstracts submission
deadline: September 1, 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:
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