[Socbin] 5th European Conference on Computational Biology - 1st
Announcement
Jaak Vilo
vilo at egeen.ee
Fri Dec 2 12:48:54 CET 2005
5th European Conference on Computational Biology - ECCB ‘06
Eilat, Israel
September 10-13, 2006
www.eccb06.org
** Call for Papers, Posters, Software Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials
The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is the leading
European and one of the primary international conferences in
computational biology and bioinformatics. The fifth meeting in this
series will be held on September 10-13, 2006 in the resort town of
Eilat, Israel. The meeting will be held jointly with the 9th Israeli
Bioinformatics Symposium.
Leading researchers and practitioners in computational biology,
bioinformatics, and bio-IT, from Europe and around the world, will
gather at ECCB ‘06 for four days of presentations, poster sessions,
workshops, software demonstrations, and professional discussions
** Keynote speakers (confirmed)
Prof. Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
** Scientific presentations
We invite you to present your work in any area of computational biology
and bioinformatics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Biomedicine, epidemiology, & agriculture
* Computational genomics
* Computer-aided drug design
* Databases & database integration
* Evolution and phylogenetics
* Metabolomics
* Ontologies
* Pathways, networks, and systems
* Proteomics
* Sequence analysis
* Simulation & system dynamics
* Structural bioinformatics
* Text mining
* Transcriptomics
Original research papers: Papers, which should describe previously
unpublished work, will undergo thorough peer review. Accepted papers
will be published in a leading journal in the field and will be indexed
in Medline and ISI.
Posters: Posters, representing condensed descriptions of ongoing work,
will be displayed during the meeting.
Workshops and Tutorials: The conference will be preceded by a day of
special-interest workshops and tutorials on cutting-edge topics. Please
submit proposals for workshops that you would like to organize and
tutorials that you would like to present.
Software demonstrations: A room will be available for demonstrating
software that is relevant to the computational biology and
bioinformatics community. Presentation will be free of charge for
participants from academic and other non-profit institutions.
** Key dates
15 Mar 2006 - Paper submission deadline
29 May 2006 - Notification of paper acceptance
08 Jun 2006 - Poster submission deadline
22 Jun 2006 - Notification of poster acceptance
08 Jun 2006 - Software demo proposal submission deadline
29 Jun 2006 - Notification of software demo acceptance
15 Mar 2006 - Workshop / tutorial proposal submission deadline
15 May 2006 - Notification of workshop / tutorial acceptance
10 Jul 2006 - Early registration deadline
** Help us get the word out!
Please download the formatted version of this call for participation and
post it on your door or a nearby bulletin board:
http://www.eccb06.org/other/callforparticipation.pdf
** For further information
Please see the conference website, http://www.eccb06.org, or send e-mail
to the conference secretariat at eccb06 at diesenhaus.com.
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