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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 Guigò, 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