The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB) 2009 invites submission of original papers in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2009 aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, microbiology, and medicine.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
– Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
– Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining
– Biomedical Text Mining
– Structural, Comparative, and Functional Genomics
– Protein Structure, Modeling, and Simulation
– Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression Analysis
– Gene and Protein Interaction and Networks
– Molecular Docking – Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
– Computational Systems Biology
– Computational Proteomics – Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
– Algorithms for Problems in Computational Biology
– Applications on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology and associated subjects.
Submitted papers will undergo blind peer review. Papers accepted in previous issues of BSB have been published as proceedings volumes in the Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) series from Springer-Verlag, Germany. We are presently negotiating with Springer to have BSB 2009 papers also published in LNBI. As in previous editions, BSB 2009 will accept two kinds of contributions: full papers, with up to 12 pages, and extended abstracts, with at most four pages. Accepted full papers are expected to be orally presented at the conference, while extended abstracts will be presented in the poster sessions. The program committee may accept as extended abstract a paper originally submitted as full. Authors of such submissions may choose to accept this decision and modify their manuscript accordingly, or drop the submission.
The manuscripts should be written in English and start with a cover page containing the title of the work, authors’ names, e-mail of the contact author, keywords, a succinct statement of the problem, and the results obtained. A technical exposition directed to specialists should follow, in pages identified only by the title of the article. Detailed formatting instructions can be found in the Springer-Verlag site, under “Information for LNCS Authors”, at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 17, 2009
Deadline for final paper versions: May 15, 2009
Conference: July 29-31, 2009
WEB SITE AND CONTACT: Complete information on the event can be found in web site http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~bsb2009/.
Questions can be addressed to bsb2009@pucrs.br.