You are invited to submit a paper to the 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2004). The conference's goal is to facilitate collaboration between computer scientists and biologists by presenting cutting edge computational biology research findings. While such research has an interdisciplinary character, CSB2004 emphasizes the computational and systems aspects of bioinformatics research. Computer science papers must contain a concise description of the biological problem being solved, and biology papers must stress the computational and systems aspects of the results. CSB2004 will accept 30 papers for podium presentation, and these will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Papers are limited to 12 pages, single-spaced, in 12 point type, including title, abstract (250 words or less), figures, tables, text, and bibliography. The first page should give keywords, authors' postal and electronic mailing addresses. Papers must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submit papers electronically in MS Word, postscript or PDF format to http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/conference/CSB2004/webconf/. A select subset of accepted papers will be invited to publish an extended version in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The Best Paper will be selected by the program committee and announced at the awards ceremony.

Submissions must be received no later than March 22, 2004. Authors will be notified of their submission's status by May 10, 2004, and final corrected versions of accepted papers must be received by June 7, 2004.

Note: For each accepted paper at least one author must be registered in CSB2004 to be included in the IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Proceedings and to be presented in the plenary session.

Important Dates:
• Submission deadline: March 22, 2004
• Paper acceptance decision: May 10, 2004
• Final revised draft due to publisher: June 7, 2004

Send e-mail queries to bioinformatics@computer.org.

Program Committee

• Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University
• Terry Braun, University of Iowa
• Jake Chen, Indiana University
• Phoebe Chen, Deakin University
• Terry Gaasterland, Rockefeller University
• Sridhar Govindarajan, DNA 2.0, Inc.
• Roderic Guigo, Instituto Municipal de Investigacion Medica
• Dan Gusfield, UC Davis
• Bailin Hao, Academia Sinica
• Sorin Istrail, Celera
• Tao Jiang, University of California Riverside
• Chug-Sheng Li, IBM Research
• Ming Li, University of Waterloo
• Jun Liu, Harvard University
• Xiaole Shirley Liu, Harvard University
• Shoudan Liang, NASA Ames Research Center
• Ann Loraine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
• Peter Markstein, Hewlett-Packard, co-chair
• Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo
• Sean Mooney, Indiana University
• Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute and Tel Aviv University
• Youlian Pan, National Research Council Canada
• Antonio Piccolboni, Affymetrix Corp
• Sven Rahmann, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
• Steven Salzberg, The Institute for Genomic Research
• Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM
• Dennis Wall, Harvard Medical School
• Liping Wei, Nexus Genomics
• Stephen Wong, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Dong Xu, University of Missouri
• Ying Xu, University of Georgia, co-chair
• YanChing Q Zhang, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions


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