Call for Papers and Posters

 

Tiling Microarray Data Analysis Methods and Algorithms

 

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2008

January 4-8, 2008

The Big Island of Hawaii


As the focus of genomics research shifts from the sequencing of genomes to their functional annotation, tiling and other high density microarrays are emerging as key technologies.  These microarrays have been used to perform genome-wide surveys of transcriptional activity and regulation, among others, in a variety of species, tissues, cell lines and conditions. Their use is becoming a routine step in the annotation of a newly sequenced genome. Therefore, a large number of valuable datasets is available to the community and the flow is expected to increase in the next few years. While a small number of related data analysis papers have appeared in the literature, there is need for more powerful and flexible analysis methods and programs. We solicit original papers that report on advancements in the biostatistics and bioinformatics of tiling and high density microarray data.

Biological applications of interest include but are not limited to :

Analytical topics of interest include but are not limited to :


Session Chairs

Antonio Piccolboni
Antonio_Piccolboni @ affymetrix.com

Srinka Ghosh
Srinka_Ghosh @ affymetrix.com

General Information on Papers and Presentations

 

The scientific core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in an archival proceedings volume (fully indexed in PubMed), and a number of the papers will be selected for presentation during the conference. Researchers wishing to present their research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one-page abstract, and present their work in a poster session.

 

Paper Formatting and Submission

 

All papers must be submitted to psb-submit @ helix.stanford.edu in electronic format with PSB in the subject line. The only acceptable file formats are Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) and postscript (*.ps). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g., altman.pdf or altman.ps). 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 the official PSB publication format. Please format your paper according to these instructions, which can be 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.

 

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