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URGENT DEADLINE

PAPER submission date
April 1, 2003

For

IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2003)
Stanford, California
August 11-14, 2003

There are only 12 days left to submit your paper to CSB2003. Please check
your calendars and make sure your submission reaches us by the APRIL 1, 2003
DEADLINE!

Visit the conference website at
<
http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics> and see the great program
that is being put together for this year. The Call for Papers and the Call
for Posters can also be found at the conference website. Be a major part of
the CSB2003 program by sending us your paper promptly.

Last year we had about 500 participants. This year we expect over 700!

You are invited to submit a paper to the 2003 IEEE Computer Society
Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2003). 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, CSB2003 emphasizes the computational
aspects of bioinformatics research. Computer science papers must show
biological relevance, and biology papers must stress the computational
aspects of the results.

CSB2003 will accept 27 papers for  podium presentation, and these will  be
published in the IEEE conference proceedings. Topics of interest include
(but are not limited to):

· Machine learning · String & Graph Algorithms
· Data Mining · Genome to Life
· Robotics · Stochastic Modeling
· Data Visualization · Genomics and Proteomics
· Regulatory Networks · Gene Expression Pathways
· Comparative Genomics · Evolution and Phylogenetics
· Pattern Recognition  · Molecular Structures & Interactions

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. Submit papers electronically to
bioinformatics@computer.org in either postscript or PDF format. A select
subset of accepted papers will be invited to also publish in the Journal of
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(
http://www.worldscinet.com/jbcb/jbcb.shtml).

The Best Paper will be selected by the Program Committee and announced at
the awards ceremony.  An HP laptop will be given to the first author of the
Best Paper.-

Submissions must be received no later than April 1, 2003. Authors will be
notified of their submission's status by May 19, 2003, and final corrected
versions must be received by June 8, 2003.

Important Dates
· Submission date: April 1,2003
· Acceptance date: May 19, 2003
· Final Revision date: June 8, 2003

Send email queries or submissions to
bioinformatics@computer.org

See website for POSTER submissions
http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics

General Chair: Vicky Markstein, vicky@insilicolabs.com  650-851-8399
Program Co-chairs: Peter Markstein,
peter_markstein@hp.com, 650-857-6662
Ying Xu,
xyn@ornl.gov,  865-574-7263

Program Committee:
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, University of Georgia
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University
Jake Chen, Myriad Proteomics
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin
Luciano Da Fontoura Costa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Antoine Danchin, Institute Pasteur
Charles Dyer, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Mike Eisen, Lawrence-Berkeley Lab
Paolo Frasconi, University of Florence
Terry Gaasterland, Rockefeller University
Sridhar Govindarajan, Maxygen
Roderic Guig̣, Grup de Recerca en Informatica Biomedica, Barcelona
Peter Hammer, Rutgers University
Bailin Hao, Academia Sinica
Tao Jiang, University of California Riverside
Ming Li, University of Waterloo
Xiaole Shirley Liu, Harvard University
Ann Loraine, Affymetrix Corp
Peter Markstein, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo
Sean Mooney, Stanford University
Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute and Tel Aviv University
Antonio Piccolboni, Affymetrix Corp.
Walter L. Ruzzo, University of Washington
Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM
Liping Wei, Nexus Genomics
Dong Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ying Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Peter Markstein, 2003 IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference
Program Co-Chair
Principal Scientist
HP Labs, MS/1163        Tel: 650-857-6662
1501 Page Mill Road       Fax: 650-857-5542
Palo Alto, CA 94304
peter_markstein@hp.com