Call for Papers and Posters

Session on Informatics Approaches in Structural Genomics

at the Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing 2003
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The goal of structural genomics is to discover and characterize the three dimensional structure of all the proteins and other macromolecules found in nature. Currently there are ongoing efforts to develop high-throughput methods for protein structure determination both in industry and in academia. This session will present progress and achievements in solving the computational challenges in this field. Topic areas included in the discussions will be (1) Determination of all common scaffolds found in naturally evolved proteins, (2) Structure-based prediction and classification of function and (3) Elucidating structurally defined function and phenotype.

Potential Topics:

• Applications in the high-throughput structure determination pipeline
• Computational projects aimed to determine and store large numbers of theoretically and experimentally determined structures
• Controlled vocabularies for the annotation of structure and function
  
• Semi-automated/automated fold and motif determination
  
• Tools and methods for the semi-automated/automated characterization of a protein's structure, function, and chemistry
  
• Methods for identification of functionally important residues
• The structural consequences of genomic variation
  
• Structure-based drug discovery in the age of structural proteomics
  
• Structure-based protein-protein interaction mapping and characterization
  
• Pharmacogenomics applications

Other topics within the subject area are welcome. If unsure whether your paper fits within the session, please contact one of the session chairs

Session Co-Chairs

Sean D Mooney, PhD
Stanford University
mooney@smi.stanford.edu

Patricia C Babbitt, PhD
University of California San Francisco
babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu

Submission information

• Submissions are due July 15, 2002
  
• Decisions are announced September 9,2002
  
• Camera ready copy due September 23, 2002
  
• Poster abstracts due November 1, 2001

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:

• 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 your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resised 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.