Session on Genome-wide Analysis and
Comparative Genomics
Topics relevant to this
session include, but are not limited to,
·
Gene
finding using multiple organisms.
·
Development
of reliable gene sets for sequenced genomes.
·
Approaches
to discover alternative gene structures generated by alternative promoters,
alternative splicing and alternative polyadenilation.
·
Alignment
techniques for large sequences and whole genomes.
·
Comparative
study of orthologous genes and biological discovery.
·
Evaluation
of evolutionary distance and alignment matrices.
·
Promoters,
regulatory elements, transcription factor binding sites, and other motif
recognition through comparative genomics.
·
Sequence
assembly and error correction using sequence comparison.
·
Database
design for efficient storage and retrieval of whole genomes.
·
Visualization
of whole genomes; visualization of results of genome-wide analysis.
·
Non-homology
approaches to finding patterns in a genome and to comparing two or more genomes.
·
Genome-wide
prediction of gene function and gene interaction
·
Study
of synteny and genome rearrangement.
Session
Co-chairs (in alphabetical order):
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Victor Solovyev, Ph.D.
EOS Biotechnology
Nexus Genomics, Inc.
The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page abstract, and present their work in discussion, poster and demonstration sessions. Workstations and internet connections will be available for demonstrations. Please submit detailed requests for demonstration facilities along with your paper or abstract.
Important dates
Paper submissions due: July 15, 2002
Notification of paper acceptance: August 19, 2002
Final paper deadline: September 23, 2002
Abstract deadline: November 1, 2002
Meeting: January 3-7, 2003
Paper format
All papers must be submitted to russ.altman@stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.pdf or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review.
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following:
Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at http://www.smi.stanford.edu/projects/helix/psb-online/psb-submit/. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit.
Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission.
Contact Russ Altman (russ.altman@stanford.edu) for additional information about paper submission requirements.
Travel support
We have been able to offer partial travel support to many PSB attendees in the
past, including most authors of accepted full papers who request support and
many graduate students. However, please note that no one is guaranteed travel
support. Travel support applications will be available on the web site soon.