Call for Papers and Posters
Molecular Bioinformatics
for Diseases
Pacific
Symposium on Biocomputing Session
January 5-9, 2009
This session
focuses on computational analysis of the molecular mechanisms that underlie
diseases. We are interested in studies that promote understanding of the
molecular underpinnings of diseases and pathologies and in studies that could
enhance diagnosis, analysis of prognosis and treatment. A main goal of this
session is to bring together bioinformaticians, systems biologists, biomedical
informaticians, physicians, pharmacologists, computer scientists,
statisticians, members of the pharmaceutical industry and others to share their
experience and scientific findings in this area. Of particular interest are
studies that integrate biological, clinical, genomic and molecular data to
provide disease-related predictions.
We would like to
invite contributions that use informatics and computational approaches to
analyze diseases at any scale of biology: from single nucleotide, through gene
expression, RNA, protein, and protein interactions to the phenotypes of the organisms.
Desired topics include, but are not limited to:
·
macromolecular
interactions in diseases
·
miRNA
and RNAi in diseases
·
clinical, medical and
pharmaceutical applications of micro-fluidics and other nanotechnologies
·
biological networks, pathways and systems
analysis of disease
·
studies in cis/co- regulation in diseases
·
association studies
·
effects of SNPs and haplotypes on diseases
·
protein, structure, misfolding or aggregation as
related to diseases
·
phenome-genome relationship
and datasets
·
comparative phenomics
·
integrative phenomics
or methods to integrate large datasets comprising heterogeneity of measurements
and representation at the molecular level and phenotypic levels
·
significant innovation
in standards for exchanging and reusing phenomes or phenotypes associated with
genetic or model organism databases or electronic medical records.
·
original methodologies
for quantitative trait loci or other genetic analyses that also include prior
probabilities derived from high throughput phenomic studies
·
visualization systems
for cross-scale genome-phenome networks
Other
topics within the subject area are welcome. Note
that all submitted papers should make clear their relevance for the study
of disease. If unsure whether your paper fits the session theme, please
contact one of the co-chairs.
Session Co-Chairs
(alphabetical order)
Stanford University
abutte@stanford.edu
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
mkann@umbc.edu
The
lussier@uchicago.edu
Bar Ilan University
yanay@ofranlab.org
Indiana University
predrag@indiana.edu
Submission Information
Please note that the submitted papers are reviewed and accepted on a competitive basis. At least three reviewers will be assigned to each submitted manuscript.
Important Dates
Paper submissions due: July 14, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance: September 8, 2008
Final paper deadline: September 22, 2008 at 11:59pm PT
Camera-ready tutorial handouts due: November 3, 2008
Paper Format
Papers must be submitted to the PSB 2009 paper management system at
http://acamedics.com/submissions/index.php/psb/psb2009/login
Please click the "Not a user? Create an account with this site" link to create an author account and upload your paper.
All papers must be submitted in electronic format to the paper management system.
The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps) and Adobe
Acrobat (*.pdf). Attached files should be
named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state
the following:
·
The email address of the corresponding author
·
The specific PSB session that should review the
paper or abstract
·
The submitted paper contains original,
unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere.
·
All co-authors concur with the contents of the
paper.
Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format and submit your paper according to instructions found at http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit/. If figures cannot 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 (psb.hawaii @ gmail.com) for
additional information about paper submission requirements.