From chemistry-request#* at *#www.ccl.net Tue Oct 27 11:27:59 1998 Received: from mail.gmd.de (mail.gmd.de [129.26.8.90]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with ESMTP id LAA29606 Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:27:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from cartan (cartan.gmd.de [129.26.8.171]) by mail.gmd.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA08357 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:27:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from gmd.de (boyer) by cartan with SMTP id AA08070 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:27:47 +0100 Sender: hoffmann $#at#$ gmd.de Message-Id: <3635F483.EFA5710C ":at:" gmd.de> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:27:47 +0100 From: Daniel Hoffmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: chemistry- at -www.ccl.net Subject: Intelligent Systems for Molec. Biol. (ISMB '99) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '99) August 6 - August 10, 1999 Heidelberg, Germany http://ismb99.gmd.de Sponsored by the International Society for Computational Biology ATTEND ONE OF THE PREMIER INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS AND ENJOY THE RARE SIGHT OF A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE The ISMB conference provides a general forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics. ISMB is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics and statistics. Its scope includes the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems. Relevant computational techniques include, but are not limited to: machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge representation, databases, combinatorics, stochastic modeling, string and graph algorithms, linguistic methods, robotics, constraint satisfaction, and parallel computation. Biological areas of interest include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis, evolution and phylogenetics, molecular interactions, metabolic pathways, regulatory networks, developmental control, and molecular biology generally. Emphasis is placed on the validation of methods using real data sets, on practical applications in the biological sciences, and on development of novel computational techniques. The five-day conference is going to be held in the Stadthalle Heidelberg in the center of the picturesque town of Heidelberg in Germany. Heidelberg is one of the scientific centers of Molecular Biology in Germany. In addition to its renown University and two Max-Planck Institutes, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the German National Cancer Research Center are located there as well as many pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The region receives special funding as one of three BioRegio regions in Germany. Heidelberg can be reached conveniently by train or shuttle from Frankfurt airport. The conference precedes a total solar eclipse which will happen just south of Heidelberg on August 11, 1999. Total solar eclipses are extremely rare astronomical events, happening only every few hundred years over a given point on earth. The next total solar eclipse in central Europe is going to happen in the year 2081; over North America the next total solar eclipse is in the year 2017. The conference will feature original, refereed papers, software demonstrations, posters and introductory tutorials. There will also be an exhibition of hardware and software vendors. Papers will be published by the AAAI in an archival proceedings and are indexed in the Medline database, and will be provided to participants as a bound volume at the conference. The previous ISMB meetings were: 1993: National Library of Medicine, USA 1994: Stanford University, USA 1995: Cambridge University, UK 1996: Washington University, USA 1997: Halkidiki, Greece 1998: Montreal, Canada Keynote speakers Manfred Eigen, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen Germany (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1967) Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Switzerland Richard Karp, University of Washington, Seattle WA Anthony Kerlavage, Celera Genomics Corporation, Rockville MD Eugene Koonin, NCBI, Bethesda MD Rob Lipschutz, Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara CA Matthias Mann, Odense University, Denmark Michael Sternberg, ICRF, London UK Paper format Papers should be a maximum of 12 pages, single-spaced and set in 12 point type, including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. The first page should give keywords, postal and electronic mailing addresses, telephone, and fax numbers. See the WWW page for other conference details. Submission information For physical submission, please send five copies of your paper to: ISMB '99 c/o Thomas Lengauer GMD-SCAI Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin Germany Papers can also be sent electronically (postscript format only) to ismb99-!at!-gmd.de ISMB-99 Organizing Committee Peer Bork EMBL Heidelberg and MDC Berlin, Germany Doug Brutlag Stanford University, USA Janice Glasgow Queen's University, Canada Thomas Lengauer GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany Hans Werner Mewes MIPS Martinsried, Germany Reinhard Schneider LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany Ralf Zimmer GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany Key Dates Meeting: Tutorial presentations: Aug 6, 1999 Paper presentations: Aug 7-10, 1999 Paper Submissions Papers must be received by: Jan 31, 1999 Replies to authors by: Mar 20, 1999 Revised papers must be received by: Apr 9, 1999 Open Poster Submissions Abstracts must be received by: May 15, 1999 Tutorial Proposals Short (1-para) proposals must be received by: Jan 10, 1999 Full (3pp) proposals must be received by: Feb 5, 1998 Replies to proposers by: Mar 26, 1998 Draft handouts must be received by: Apr 25, 1998 Final handouts must be received by: Jun 20, 1998 Tutorials presented: Aug 6, 1998 ISMB-99 Contact address: ismb99#* at *#gmd.de