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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
18 and 19 October 2006
The Microsoft Research - University of Trento
Centre for Computational and Systems Biology
TRENTO - ITALY
http://www.msr-unitn.unitn.it/events/cmsb06.php
The CMSB (Computational Methods in
Systems Biology) conference series was established in 2003 to help catalyze the
convergence of modellers, physicists, mathematicians, and theoretical computer
scientists from fields such as language design, concurrency theory, program
verification, and molecular biologists, physicians, neuroscientists
interested in a systems-level understanding of cellular physiology and
pathology.
CMSB'06 solicits original research articles (including
significant works-in-progress), surveys of current research and posters. These
may cover theoretical or applied contributions that are motivated by a
biological question and can demonstrate either actual or potential usefulness
towards answering that question. They may also cover models of computation
inspired by biological processes; the motivation may be as much computational
as biological. Particularly relevant case studies and open issues from the
biological side that demands modeling of systems are of interest as well. The
introduction of formal models should be supported by theoretical arguments
about the model and/or on the analyses that they enable, by comparisons with
other network models, and/or by examples of representation and analysis of a
biological system.
Topics of interest include:
1. Biological systems and networks: inference,
properties, modeling, dynamics, simulation and reverse engineering
2. Formal methods for drug discovery and design
3. Methods to predict biological network behavior from
incomplete information
4. Models including symbolic evolution and learning
5. Models of Self-assembly
6. Detailed case-studies on how a biological question
was successfully addressed using formal models
7. Emergence of properties in complex biological
systems
8. Theoretical comparisons between different formal
models of cellular processes
9. Differential, discrete and/or stochastic
modeling-language frameworks
10. Quantitative formal languages
11. Biologically-inspired extensions to concurrency theory,
constraint programming, logical methods or language equivalences
12. Computer models in nano-sciences applied to biological
domains
13. Definition and study of theoretical properties of
biologically-inspired formal languages
14. Biological data bases and exchange formats for
biological data and standards
History
2003 held in Trento, chaired by
2004 held in Paris, co-chaired by Vincent Danos and Vincent Schachter
2005 held in Edinburgh, chaired by Gordon Plotkin.
Paper and poster submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original research papers or
survey papers of no more than 15 pages in .pdf format using the LNCS templates,
available at the url below
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
We also accept poster proposals in
the form of a text-only abstract describing the poster contents.
Papers and posters descriptions
should be sent by e-mail to
The subject line should be CMSB Paper: (Title of Paper).
The body of the e-mail should contain the title, authors and
affiliations, an abstract, and the themes to which the paper/poster refers
according to the topics of interest list. If no theme is listed, please insert
some keywords.
All submissions will be reviewed by
the program committee. Accepted papers will be included in
the proceedings available at the conference. Publication as an LNBI volume by
Springer is under negotiation.
Important Dates
(deadlines are strict):
Submission of
papers:
May, 10
Notification of paper acceptance:
June, 10
Revised version of papers
due: June, 30
Submission of
posters:
July, 10
Notification of poster acceptance:
July, 30
Venue
The conference will be held in
Trento (
Steering Committee
Finn Drablos, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim (NO)
Monika Heiner, TU Cottbus (D)
Patrick Lincoln, Stanford Research International (US)
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (JP)
Magali Roux-Rouquié, CNRS-UPMC (FR)
Vincent Schachter, Genoscope, Evry (FR)
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (D)
Program Committee
Program Committee Chair
Computational and Systems Biology - (I)
Charles Auffray, CNRS (F)
Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow (UK)
Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and
Medicine (IT)
David Harel, Weizmann Institute (Israel)
Monika Heiner, University of Cottbus (D)
Ela Hunt, University of Zürich (CH)
François Kepes, CNRS / Epigenomics Program, Evry (F)
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Birmingham (UK)
Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna (IT)
Eduardo Mendoza, LMU (D) and University of the
Philippines-Diliman (PH)
Bud Mishra, New York University (US)
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (JP)
Christos Ouzounis, European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Alessandro Quattrone, University of Florence (IT)
Magali Roux-Rouquié, CNRS-UPMC (F)
David Searls, Senior Vice-President, Worldwide
Bioinformatics - GlaxoSmithKline (US)
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (D)
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC (ES)
Organizing Committee
Matteo Cavaliere and Elisabetta Nones - The Microsoft
Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology
(IT)
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