Call for Papers

Tools for Visualization and Interaction

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
(http://psb.stanford.edu)
Sheraton Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
January 5-9, 2000

Session Co-chairs:


Data continues to flood in from large-scale sequencing projects as well as from such methods as X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy. The vast volume of sequence, structural, and functional data, the wide variety of analyses and annotations to be performed, and the variety of organisms and projects represented in this deluge of information combine to present the bioinformatics community with unprecedented challenges.

This session deals with one particular challenge of enormous importance to the molecular biology and structural biology communities: tools and techniques to assist scientists in evaluating, absorbing, navigating, and correlating this sea of information, through visualization and user interaction. We are seeking novel contributions from groups working in a wide range of computational biology and bioinformatics areas, including:

During the conference, we plan to have both low- and high-end workstations available for live demonstrations during talks. In addition, the demo room will be equipped with systems to load software for interactive discussion during the poster sessions and open free time.

The ultimate goal of this session is to provide a forum for presentation of recent results and discussion among tool developers, researchers, and practitioners in visualization, user interaction, computational biology, and bioinformatics.


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