Fifth Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology

The Fifth Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2001), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) with support from Celera Genomics, Compugen, IBM Corporation, SLOAN Foundation, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), SmithKline Beecham, US Department of Energy, and US National Science Foundation will be organized by Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, in Montreal, Canada on April 21-24, 2001. The conference will be held at the Montréal Wyndham Hotel.

Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of computational molecular biology are sought, including surveys of important recent results/directions.

Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:

Genomics

Molecular sequence analysis

Recognition of genes and regulatory elements

Molecular evolution

Protein structure

Gene expression

Gene networks

Combinatorial libraries and drug design

Computational proteomics

Structural and functional genomics

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts electronically. The respective email address is [email]

Electronic submission instructions can be found at [www]

Authors who are unable to do so are requested to send 10 copies (preferably two sided copies) to:

Thomas Lengauer

Program Chair RECOMB 2001

Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing

GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

Schloss Birlinghoven

53754 Sankt Augustin

Germany

Tel: +49 2241 14 2777

Fax: +49 2241 14 2656

[email]

Abstracts must be received by September 30, 2000, 23:59 local time. This is a firm deadline. Simultaneous submission to another conference or journal is allowed. Authors are asked to inform the program chair at the time of submission of the simultaneous submission.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

The extended abstracts for the Conference will be published by ACM Press and will be available at the Conference. If the paper has been accepted to another conference or a journal before RECOMB 2001, the authors will be allowed only a short abstract (1 page) in the proceedings of RECOMB 2001 and not an extended abstract. A selection of the accepted extended abstracts in their final journal versions will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology devoted to RECOMB 2001.

NOTIFICATION:

The conference submissions will be refereed by the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a letter mailed on or before December 8, 2000. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by January 5, 2001. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the Symposium and present the paper; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper presented.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION:

An abstract should start with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. This material should be understandable to non-specialists. A technical exposition directed to the specialist should follow. The length, excluding cover page and bibliography, should not exceed 10 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, using at least 11 point font size on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper with no less than one inch margin all around. If authors believe that more details are absolutely necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix. An email address for the contact author should be included. Abstracts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

POSTERS:

RECOMB 2001 will include a poster session. Accepted posters will appear in a special poster book published by the Centre de recherches mathématiques. Poster submission instructions will be announced later.

CONFERENCE EVENTS:

RECOMB 2001 will feature 9 Plenary Lectures (to be announced later) including the following conference events:

• The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational Biology Address: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the computational aspects of the field.
• The Distinguished Biology Lecture: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the biological aspects of the field.
• The Distinguished New Technologies Lecture: describing emerging, new technologies.
• Best Paper by a Young Scientist Award: This award will be given to the best paper written solely by one or more recent graduates or students. An abstract is eligible if all authors are recent graduates (within 3 years from Ph.D.) or full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated in a letter to the program chair that accompanies the submission. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers.
• The Conference occasionally awards the "Fred Howes Distinguished Service Award Lecture" in recognition of exceptional service on behalf of the Computational Biology community.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

George Church Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Philip Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Ruedi Aebersold University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA

Mark Adams Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA

Roger Brent Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA

Franz Lang Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Klaus Lindpaintner F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland

Yvonne Martin Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA

Mark Ptashne Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

CALENDAR:

Deadline for submission of papers: Sep 30, 2000

Notification of acceptance/rejection: Dec 5, 2000

Deadline for reception of final papers: Jan 5, 2001

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Sorin Istrail, RECOMB General Vice-Chair Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA

Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Thomas Lengauer GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Pavel Pevzner, RECOMB General Chair University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ron Shamir Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Michael Waterman, RECOMB General Chair University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Steve Bryant NCBI, Bethesda, USA

Philipp Bucher Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gordon Crippen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Antoine Danchin Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Sridhar Hannenhalli Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA

David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Liisa Holm EMBL.EBI, Cambridge, England

Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA

Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Lengauer (Chair) GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany

Hans-Peter Lenhof MPI for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

Michal Linial The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Pavel Pevzner University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Isidore Rigoutsos IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

David Sankoff Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Donna Slonim Genetics Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

Terry Speed University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Mike Sternberg Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, England

William Taylor National Institute of Medical Research, London, England

Martin Vingron German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Tandy Warnow University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Michael Waterman University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ralf Zimmer GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Thomas Lengauer (Program Chair) GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

David Sankoff (Conference Chair) Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Nadia El-Mabrouk Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Michael Hallett McGill University, Montréal, Canada

François Major Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Thomas Hagedorn Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Theo Mevissen GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Louis Pelletier Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Ralf Zimmer GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

INFORMATION:

David Sankoff

Conference Chair RECOMB 2001

Centre de recherches mathématiques

Université de Montréal

C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville,

Montréal (Québec),

CANADA H3C 3J7

Tel: (514) 343-7501

Fax: (514) 343-2254

[email]

 

Thomas Lengauer

Program Chair RECOMB 2001

Institute for Algorithms and Scienfitic Computing

GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

Schloss Birlinghoven

53754 Sankt Augustin

Germany

Tel: +49 2241 14 2777

Fax: +49 2241 14 2656

[email]

http://recomb2001.gmd.de