Call for Highlights Papers and Posters:  ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012

ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centers. Shenzhen is a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.

Call for Highlights: We invite the submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers between August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012 of topics including, but not limited to: computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology. Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a co-author to make the presentation), and must register and pay to attend the conference.

Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.

Please note the following dates:

• Papers published from Aug 31, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012 considered.
• Submission deadline: Sep 30, 2012
• Notification Date: Oct 29, 2012

Please submit your Highlights papers directly to the ISCB submission site at www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=128

Call for Posters: Poster abstracts in the same topic areas are also invited. Please submit your poster directly to the ISCB submission site at www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=129 by the submission deadline of October 31, 2012. Accepted poster presenters must register and pay to attend the conference.

We look forward to receiving your submissions,

Victor Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair

Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair

Submission Deadline Approaching: RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

The deadline for submissions for the 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, is just two weeks away. We invite you to participate by submitting a paper or abstract.

For more information, visit: http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.

The 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges is one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology, and is now an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.

All submissions of full-length papers will be considered for publication in Genome Research and the Journal of Computational Biology. Accepted papers will be published in conjunction with the conference and authors of selected papers will present their work at the meeting. Our program committee will review all submitted papers in collaboration with the journal editors and the conference chairs.

We are also accepting submissions of abstracts, including both original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for publication by a high-impact journal between January 1 and November 1, 2012. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation. Work already accepted for publication will be considered for an oral presentation only.

***The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012 ***

This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. Areas of interest for papers, abstracts, and nominations include:

• Modeling and recognition of regulatory motifs and modules
  
• Chromatin state establishment, maintenance, and role in development
• Post-transcriptional regulation and small regulatory RNAs
• Regulatory networks, metabolic networks, proteomic networks
• Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
• Phosphorylation, metabolic fluxes, systematic phenotyping
• Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
• Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
• Approaches for aggregation of results arising from different methodologies

We are also still accepting submissions for participation in the DREAM Challenges, designed to identify the best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks. Lastly, we are also still inviting nominations for RegGen-TopTen 2011, our list of the most influential papers of 2011 in the fields of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, in conjunction with the ISMB Special Interest Group on Regulatory Genomics (RegGen SIG). See our website above for more information.

We are looking forward to very exciting program. Our invited speakers include Howard Chang, Job Dekker, Angela DePace, Joe Ecker, Yoav Gilad, Len Pennacchio, Saurabh Sinha, Stephen Friend, Jonathan Weissman, Dean Felsher, Michael Elowitz, Joe Nadeau, Markus Covert, Joe Gray, and Ernest Fraenkel.

We hope that you will participate and look forward to seeing you in San Francisco this November!

Best regards,

Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky

Conference Chairs

Last Call for Submissions: RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

The deadline for submissions for the 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, is just two weeks away. We invite you to participate by submitting a paper or abstract.

For more information, visit: http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.

The 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges is one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology, and is now an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.

All submissions of full-length papers will be considered for publication in Genome Research and the Journal of Computational Biology. Accepted papers will be published in conjunction with the conference and authors of selected papers will present their work at the meeting. Our program committee will review all submitted papers in collaboration with the journal editors and the conference chairs.

We are also accepting submissions of abstracts, including both original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for publication by a high-impact journal between January 1 and November 1, 2012. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation. Work already accepted for publication will be considered for an oral presentation only.

***The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012 ***

This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. Areas of interest for papers, abstracts, and nominations include:

• Modeling and recognition of regulatory motifs and modules
  
• Chromatin state establishment, maintenance, and role in development
• Post-transcriptional regulation and small regulatory RNAs
• Regulatory networks, metabolic networks, proteomic networks
• Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
• Phosphorylation, metabolic fluxes, systematic phenotyping
• Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
• Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
• Approaches for aggregation of results arising from different methodologies

We are also still accepting submissions for participation in the DREAM Challenges, designed to identify the best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks. Lastly, we are also still inviting nominations for RegGen-TopTen 2011, our list of the most influential papers of 2011 in the fields of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, in conjunction with the ISMB Special Interest Group on Regulatory Genomics (RegGen SIG). See our website above for more information.

We are looking forward to very exciting program. Our invited speakers include Howard Chang, Job Dekker, Angela DePace, Joe Ecker, Yoav Gilad, Len Pennacchio, Saurabh Sinha, Stephen Friend, Jonathan Weissman, Dean Felsher, Michael Elowitz, Joe Nadeau, Markus Covert, Joe Gray, and Ernest Fraenkel.

Registration is also now open and early registration rates will expire October 12th. We hope that you will participate and look forward to seeing you in San Francisco this November!

Best regards,

Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky

Conference Chairs

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