The ECCB conference provides an outstanding opportunity to present cutting edge research in Computational Biology. It is a multi-disciplinary conference that bridges the field of computer science, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmaceutics, and medicine by bringing together involved scientists from all over the world. The ECCB 2002 marks the start of a revolving scheme, in which each year, another of the national computational biology conferences (France, UK, Scandinavia, etc.) plays the role of the European conference.
Papers reporting on original research in all areas of computational molecular biology are sought, including surveys of important recent results/directions.
Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems including computational techniques such as
Biological areas of interest include but are not limited to
All submissions will be reviewed by several members of the ECCB 2002 Programm Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by mail. A final copy of each accepted paper will be required subsequently. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference and present the paper; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper presented. All accepted papers will appear in the published proceedings that will be available at the time of the conference.
A manuscript 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 12 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, using at least 11 point font size on letter format and double spacing with no less than a 2.5 cm 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. Manuscripts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Send your manuscript via e-mail to [email] You will receive confirmation of receipt (or notification that the manuscript was unprintable) within a day. Your confirmation will go to the e-mail address from which the manuscript was sent. Please contact us if you do not hear from us.
To be considered, your submission must conform to these simple rules. The file must be an e-mail attachment, not embedded in the body of the message. The file format must be PostScript or PDF. The printed manuscript must contain the e-mail and street address of the corresponding author.
The following suggestions are recommendations only. Your file should be small because files over a few megabytes may not survive e-mail. Your file should be compressed, preferably with bzip2, gzip, compress or zip. Compression reduces the size of your e-mail message, and provides us with a simple test for e-mail corruption.
ECCB 2002 will include a poster session. Accepted posters will appear in a special poster book. Poster submission instructions will be posted on this web site.
Saarbruecken is located in the heart of Europe close to Germany's borders with France and Luxembourg. Information technology, biotechnology and knowledge management are being promoted as the major platforms for future development and growth of the region.
The conference itself will take place in Saarbruecken's Congress Hall which is located in the city center.
PROGRAMM COMMITTEE
Ewan Birney EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Alvis Brazma EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Soeren Brunak Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Philipp Bucher Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research,
Epalinges s/Lausanne, Switzerland
Nir Friedman Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
David GilbertCity University, London, United Kingdom
Inge Jonassen University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Pavel Pevzner University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United
States
Knut Reinert Celera Genomics, Rockville, United States
Thomas Lengauer Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science,
(Chair) Saarbruecken, Germany
Hans-Peter Lenhof Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Marie-France Sagot Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Manfred Sippl Center of Applied Molecular Engineering, Salzburg, Austria
Janet Thornton EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Anna Tramontano University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Esko Ukkonen University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Alfonso Valencia Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Martin Vingron Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany
Ralf Zimmer Ludwig-Maximillian-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen,
Germany
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