From recomb@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Jul 20 18:21:00 1999 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:20:22 PDT From: RECOMB 2000 To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Subject: RECOMB 2000 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RECOMB 2000) April 8-11, 2000 Tokyo, Japan Organized by Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo Sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - SIGACT with support from Compugen IBM Corporation International Society for Computational Biology SLOAN Foundation SmithKline Beecham US National Science Foundation US Department of Energy http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp The Fourth Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2000), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) with support from the SLOAN Foundation, US Department of Energy, US National Science Foundation, SmithKline Beecham, IBM Corporation, Compugen and ISCB will be organized by HGC, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan on April 8-11, 2000. The conference will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight International Exhibition Center. Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of computational molecular biology are sought, including surveys of important recent results/directions. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: - Genomics, - Molecular sequence analysis, - Recognition of genes and regulatory elements, - Molecular evolution, - Protein structure, - Gene Expression, - Gene Networks, - Combinatorial libraries and drug design, - Computational proteomics, - Functional genomics. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts ELECTRONICALLY. Electronic submission instructions can be found at http://sigact.csci.unt.edu/~recomb2k/RECOMB2000.html. Authors who are unable to do so are requested to send 10 copies (preferably two sided copies) to: Prof. Ron Shamir RECOMB 2000 Program Chair Department of Computer Science Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel shamir@math.tau.ac.il An abstract must be received by September 30 1999, 23:59 EST. This is a firm deadline. Simultaneous submission to another conference or journal is allowed. Authors should inform the program chair at the time of submission of the simultaneous submission. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The extended abstracts for the Conference will be published by ACM Press and will be available at the Conference. A selection of the accepted extended abstracts in their final journal versions will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology devoted to RECOMB 2000. NOTIFICATION: The conference submissions will be refereed by the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a letter mailed on or before December 5, 1999. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by January 5, 2000. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the Symposium and present the paper; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper presented. ABSTRACT PREPARATION: An abstract should start with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. This material should be understandable to non-specialists. A technical exposition directed to the specialist should follow. The length, excluding cover page and bibliography, should not exceed 10 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, using at least 11 point font size on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper with no less than one inch margin all around. If authors believe that more details are absolutely necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix. An E-mail address for the contact author should be included. Abstracts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. POSTERS: RECOMB 2000 will include a poster session. Accepted posters will appear in a special poster book published by the Human Genome Center, University of Tokyo. Poster submission instructions will be announced later. CONFERENCE EVENTS: RECOMB 2000 will feature 9 Plenary Lectures (to be announced later) including the following conference events: - The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational Biology Address: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the computational aspects of the field. - The Distinguished Biology Lecture: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the biological aspects of the field. - The Distinguished New Technologies Lecture: describing emerging, new technologies. - Best Paper by a Young Scientist Award: This award will be given to the best paper written solely by one or more recent graduates or students. An abstract is eligible if all authors are recent graduates (within 3 years from Ph.D.) or full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated in a letter to the program chair that accompanies the submission. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. CALENDAR Deadline for submission of papers: September 30th, 1999 Notification of acceptance/rejection: December 5th, 1999 Deadline for reception of final papers: January 5th, 2000 STEERING COMMITTEE Sorin Istrail, RECOMB General Vice-Chair Sandia National Laboratories, USA Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley, USA Thomas Lengauer GMD-SCAI, Germany Pavel Pevzner, RECOMB General Chair University of Southern California, USA Ron Shamir Tel-Aviv University, Israel Michael Waterman, RECOMB General Chair University of Southern California, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Steve Bryant NCBI, USA Andrea Califano IBM, USA Gordon Crippen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Ken Dill University of California San Francisco Richard Durbin Sanger Centre, UK Jim Fickett SmithKline Beecham, USA Phil Green University of Washington, Seattle, USA Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis, USA Sorin Istrail Sandia National Laboratories, USA Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley, USA Jonathan King MIT, USA George Komatsoulis Human Genome Sciences, USA Thomas Lengauer GMD-SCAI, Germany Michael Levitt Stanford University, USA Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Japan Pavel Pevzner University of Southern California, USA Gesine Reinert King's College, Cambridge, UK David Sankoff University of Montreal, Canada Ron Shamir, Program Committee Chair Tel-Aviv University, Israel Donna Slonim Whitehead Institute, USA Temple Smith Boston University, USA Mike Steel University of Canterbury, New Zealand Martin Vingron DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany Lusheng Wang City University of Hong Kong, China Michael Waterman University of Southern California, USA Erik Winfree Princeton University, USA Haim Wolfson Tel Aviv University, Israel ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Tatsuya Akutsu, Publicity Chair HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Nir Friedman Hebrew University, Israel Osamu Maruyama HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Satoru Miyano, Organizing Committee Chair HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Kenta Nakai HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Asako Suzuki, Registration Chair HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Ayako Tomiyasu HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan Toshihisa Takagi, Treasurer HGC, University of Tokyo, Japan INFORMATION Human Genome Center Institute of Medical Science University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-8639, Japan Phone: +81-3-5449-5615 Fax: +81-3-5449-5442 email : recomb2000@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp