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PSB 2013
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The paper submission deadline has passed; paper decision notification has been sent. The list of accepted papers has been selected by our referees and will be announced soon.
The eighteenth Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), will be held January 3-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. PSB will bring together top researchers from North America, the Asian Pacific nations, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB will provide a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. PSB intends to attract a balanced combination of computer scientists and biologists, presenting significant original research, demonstrating computer systems, and facilitating formal and informal discussions on topics of importance to computational biology.
To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve both formal research presentations and open discussion groups. The PSB 2013 sessions are:
Please see the PSB paper format template and instructions at http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit/index.html.
The accepted file formats are: postscript (*.ps) and Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf).
Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author
(e.g. altman.ps or altman.pdf). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or
LATEX files or electronic submissions not submitted through the paper management system will be rejected without review.
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter should be the first page of your paper submission. The cover letter must state the following:
Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages (not including the cover letter) in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit/. If figures can not 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 images are accepted for publication at no additional charge.
Contact PSB (psb.hawaii @ gmail.com) for additional information about paper submission requirements.
The session will focus on computational approaches to interpret very large,
high-dimensional data sets, generated by epigenetic and genomic studies of
cancer, functional elements in the human genome, GWAS, proteomic and
metabolomic studies. We are particularly interested in data integration
methods that include pathway and network modeling and in tools that can be
used to mine the complex databases in which results of these studies are
being stored.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 5, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Rachel Karchin
Email: rachel dot karchin at gmail dot com
De novo drug discovery continues to be a lengthy and resource-consuming process in spite of all the advances in life sciences and technology. In response, there is an ever-growing effort to apply computational power to improve this process. In recent years, a new set of computational methods are being developed at a system level for discovering alternative uses of known drugs. In this session, all aspects of computational drug repositioning research will be considered, with emphasis on novel approaches and their applications.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 5, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Zhiyong Lu
Email: zhiyong dot lu at nih dot gov
This session will focus on computational methods for the analysis and interpretation of various types of epigenomic data, including histone modifications, DNA methylation, nucleosome positioning, chromatin structure and accessibility, and DNA-DNA interaction. The session will include papers that describe methods for building computational models of physical phenomena as well as methods for interpreting the functional significance of epigenomic data.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 8, 2012 for this session.
Contact: William Noble
Email: william-noble at uw dot edu
This session will address open and new problems pertaining to genotype data, intermediate phenotypes, clinical variables and disease. Problem areas within the scope include methods for genome sequencing, genome-wide association studies, gene expression modeling with relevance to disease, and causal modeling integrating information from multiple sources. The session is intended to have a broad target audience including method developers and practitioners in the fields of medical and human genetics, statistical genetics and related areas.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 5, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Oliver Stegle
Email: oliver dot stegle at tuebingen dot mpg dot de
Phylogenomics and population genomics involve analyzing the evolutionary relationships among genomes from different species as well as different individuals of the same species. This session is about developing and using new mathematical models and computational techniques for enabling these two fields.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 5, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Luay Nakhleh
Email: nakhleh at rice dot edu
The Post-NGS session recognizes the vast amount of information generated by next generation sequencing (NGS) methods and will provide a forum for methods and algorithms developed for analysis of finalized NGS data. Novel computational methods that interpret post-NGS data for research and clinical applications are invited to this session.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 8, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Gurkan Bebek
Email: gurkan at case dot edu
This session will bring together researchers with a strong text or data mining background who are collaborating with bench scientists for the deployment of integrative approaches in translational bioinformatics. It serves as a unique forum to discuss novel approaches to text and data mining methods that respond to specific scientific questions, enabling predictions that integrate a variety of data sources and can potentially impact scientific discovery.
Paper submission deadline extended to August 5, 2012 for this session.
Contact: Graciela Gonzalez
Email: Graciela dot Gonzalez at asu dot edu