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Call for Papers: 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research. GENSIPS 2013 will also provide best paper awards to students with outstanding technical contributions.

Papers on original research in computational biology and bioinformatics are solicited. Abstracts for poster presentation are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Deep sequencing data analysis

Methods for analyzing SNP/genotype/epigenetic data

LC/MS data analysis and proteomics

Cancer genomics and cancer drug screening

Functions of microRNA and non-coding RNAs

Differential analysis of molecular regulatory networks

Functional meta-genomics and biomolecular dynamics in microbial communities

Dynamics and control of genetic regulatory networks

Modeling of cancer evolution and intra-tumoral heterogeneity

Modeling of genetic networks and signaling pathways

Travel and best paper awards sponsored by National Science Foundation will be provided to student/post doctoral authors of papers with exceptional quality.

Paper Submission: All submitted papers (up to 4 pages) will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings that will be archived in IEEE Xplore. Authors of papers of exceptional quality will be invited to submit a journal version to a special issue of a high-quality journal.

Important Deadlines

Aug. 2, 2013 Full papers due; proposal for special session due

Sep. 9, 2013 Notification of Acceptance

Oct. 21, 2013 Poster abstract due

Oct. 28, 2013 Camera Ready paper due and early registration

Nov. 17-19, 2013 GENSIPS 2013

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

Call for Apps: 2013 VIVO Conference

Aug. 14-16, 2013 St. Louis, Missouri

Entries are due July 31, 2013.

The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.

The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013

Who Should Attend?

If you are interested in scholarly collaboration and research discovery, than the VIVO 2013 Conference may be for you!  This conference is designed for scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of team science.

This year's VIVO conference provides a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

Call for Apps

The conference is sponsoring a competition for applications using VIVO data to support science. Entries are due July 31. Refer to the Call for Applications for submission information, including eligibility, evaluation criteria and prizes.

For details and to submit, visit https://www.eiseverywhere.com/docs/3877/CFA.

Eligibility

Applications can be written in any language. To qualify applications must:

-- Consume VIVO data (linked open data in the VIVO ontology) from more than one VIVO site.

--Be accessible from a single persistent URL, accessible on the public Internet without authentication.

Criteria for Success

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

1. Value to the research community.

2. Functionality: The application performs as described.

3. Presentation: The application is well organized and attractive.

Topics of Interest

Researcher collaboration and networking; Implementation and adoption of VIVO and related systems that interoperate through shared ontologies and Linked Open Data; Open research data and related issues in discovery, reuse, and attribution – including research dataset representation and linkages; Open representations of research and implications for the research process, collaboration, and virtual research communities; Team-based science; Theory and practice of working with the VIVO Ontology and the Integrated Semantic Framework; Applications that use VIVO-compliant Linked Open Data and/or SPARQL queries; visualization, analysis, and metrics; Managing and discovering knowledge about researchers across institutional, disciplinary, and geographic boundaries; The intersection of VIVO and international research information and identifier standards; Policy perspectives, planning, and modelling for compliance and/or knowledge mobilization; Perspectives on policy, research representation, and research impact, including questions of privacy, individual vs. institutional sourcing of data, and change over time; Semantic Web development and extensions of the VIVO platform to reach the full Web community; Development and extensions of the VIVO platform; Use of VIVO data for evaluation and strategic forecasting for institutions and organizations

Call for Papers & Abstracts: PSB'14 Cancer Panomics Session

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2014

January 3-7, 2014 The Big Island of Hawaii

Session tutorial: January 3, 2014

Computational methods and infrastructure for integrative analysis of cancer high-throughput “omics” data to enable precision oncology

Full paper submission deadline:  July 31, 2013

Session Aims

We aim to explore the computational needs to enable precision oncology through cancer panomics, and to encourage computational biologists in academia and industry to come together to tackle the hard problems to implement such a vision. We seek original contributions that discuss new methods or algorithms/infrastructure able to integrate two or more “omics” and/or clinical data types aimed to enable precision medicine in individual cancer patients (as opposed to pattern finding algorithms for cross-sectional studies). Submission could also formally pose a novel problem in cancer integrative analysis that the community will need to address, but more often will describe algorithms, models, and original solutions to a specific data integration analysis problem in cancer.

Possible submission topics:

Integrative analysis of high-throughput "omics" data from related samples or data types

Pathway disruption analysis by combining data from different "omics" sources in single patients

Joint analysis of "omics" data, literature, clinical trial data, and medical records

Data structures & systems to enable big-data integrative analysis in patients