CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference

Singapore, 17-21 January 2005

http://www.deakin.edu.au/APBC2005

The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development and novel applications of Bioinformatics. The Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2005, will be held in Singapore.

Key Information

High-throughput sequencing and functional genomics technologies have given us a draft human genome sequence and have enabled large-scale genotyping and gene expression profiling of human populations. Databases containing large numbers of sequences, polymorphisms, and gene expression profiles of normal and diseased tissues in different clinical states are rapidly being generated for human and model organisms. Bioinformatics is thus rapidly growing in importance in the annotation of genomic sequences, in the understanding of the interplay between genes and proteins, in the analysis the genetic variability of species, etc. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners for interaction and exchange of knowledge and ideas. We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics.

Topics of Interest

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Novel Applications in Bioinformatics

• Computational Analysis of Biological Data 

• Data Mining & Statistical Modeling of Biological Data 

• Modelling and Simulation of Biological Processes 

• Visualization of Biological Processes and Data 

• Management, Migration, and Integration of Biological Databases 

• Access, Indexing, and Search in Biological Databases

GENERAL CHAIR

Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Limsoon Wong, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Catherine Abbott, Flinders Univ, Australia
Vineet Bafna, University of California San Diego, USA
Phil Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA
Kevin Burrage, University of Queensland, Australia
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
RunSheng  Chen,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ross Coppel, Monash University, Australia 
Terry Gaasterland, Rockefeller Univesity, USA
David Dagan Feng, University of Sydney, Australia
Gavin Huttley, Australia Nat of Uni, Australia 
Nik Kasabov, Auckland Univ of Tech, New Zealand 
Sang-Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea  
Tak-Wah Lam, Univ of Hong Kong
Tim Littlejohn, IBM Asia
Jingchu Luo, Peking Univ, China
Bin Ma, Univ W. Ontario, Canada
Hideo Matsuda, Osaka Univ, Japan
Satoru Miyano, Univ of Tokyo, Japan
See-Kiong Ng, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jong H. Park, KAIST, Korea
Michael Poidinger, ANGIS, Australia
Mark Ragan, Univ of Queensland Australia
Shoba Raganathan, Macquarie Univ, Australia
Wing-Kin Sung, National Uni of Singapore, Singapore
Tin Wee Tan, National Uni of Singapore, Singapore
Hong Yan, City Univ of Hong Kong, China
Ueng-Cheng Yang, Nat Yang-Ming Univ, Taiwan
ChunTing  Zhang, Tianjin University, China
Ren Zhang, Wollongong Univ, Australia
Michael Zhang, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA
Xiaofang Zhou, Univ of Queensland, Australia

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS

Shoba Raganathan, Macquarie Univ, Australia
Vladimir Brusic, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

Vladimir Brusic, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore

IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission Deadline     Jul  16, 2004 
Notification of Paper Acceptance Aug 27, 2004
Tutorial proposals:                        Aug 28, 2004
Camera Ready Papers Due             Sep 10, 2004
Author Registration                      Sep 10, 2004
Poster & demo proposals               Sep 20 2004
Conference                                   Jan 17 2005 ~ Jan 21 2005

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

APBC2005 invites high-quality original papers on any topic related to Bioinformatics. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (instructions available at the APBC2005 website). Each paper will be fully refereed by an international program committee. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Authors should submit one copy of a PDF or MS Word file to APBC2005 Paper Submission Website. The full paper must be submitted by 16 July 2004. The proceedings will be published as a volume in the series Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology by Imperial College Press. Expanded version of the best papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to register for and present at the conference.