This announcement solicits papers for a special track to be held as part of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-2000). The track will focus on the automated process of discovery of novel and useful patterns or motifs in molecular databases. A primary objective of the session will be on the mining of sequence and structure databases in order to gain an increased understanding of the underlying relationships among sequence, structure and function.

Papers should describe the underlining computational techniques that were performed. Preference will be given to papers that apply and evaluate novel data mining techniques to real molecular databases. Of particular interest are applications in areas such as protein structure prediction and drug design. As well, papers that discuss the advantages/limitations of alternative computational methods to the mining of molecular data will be considered.

Co-chairs

• Janice Glasgow, Queen's University (janice@qucis.queensu.ca)
• Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto (juris@cs.toronto.edu)
• Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia (rng@cs.ubc.ca).

Deadlines

• July 12 - papers due to PSB-00 as above
• Aug 27 - final paper decisions announced
• Sept 24 - camera ready papers due
• Nov 1 - poster abstracts due (after this date, posters will be accepted on a space available basis; space will be limited especially for interactive/computational posters after this date)

Submission Requirements

• postscript (*.ps),
• adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and
• Microsoft Word documents (*.doc).

1. The email address of the corresponding author
2. The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract
3. The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere
4. All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.