Call For Papers, Abstracts and Demonstrations
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Big Island of Hawaii -- January 4-8, 2008

See: http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp.html for more information about the call-for-papers, and http://psb.stanford.edu for the general information about the conference.

The thirteenth Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), will be held January 4-8, 2008 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. PSB will bring together top researchers from North America, the Asian Pacific nations, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB will provide a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. PSB intends to attract a balanced combination of computer scientists and biologists, presenting significant original research, demonstrating computer systems, and facilitating formal and informal discussions on topics of importance to computational biology.

To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve both formal research presentations and open discussion groups. The PSB
2008 sessions are:

* Beyond Gap Models: Reconstructing Alignments and Phylogenies Under Genomic-Scale Events
* Computational Challenges in the Study of Small Regulatory RNAs
* Computational Tools for Next-Generation Sequencing Applications
* Knowledge-Driven Analysis and Data Integration for High-Throughput Biological Data
* Molecular Bioinformatics for Diseases: Protein Interactions and Phenomics
* Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: from Molecules to Cells to Organisms
* Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Integrating Structure, Sequence, and Function
* Tiling Microarray Data Analysis Methods and Algorithms
* Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools that Work

Papers and posters
The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page abstract by November 9, 2007 to present their work in the poster sessions.

Important dates
Paper submissions due: July 17, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance: September 5, 2007
Final paper deadline: September 24, 2007 midnight PT
Abstract deadline: November 9, 2007
Meeting: January 3-7, 2008

Tandy Warnow, Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin