[hpc-announce] AlCoB 2016: 1st call for papers

Sun Nov 15 12:45:15 CST 2015

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3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

ALCOB 2016 

TRUJILLO, SPAIN 

JUNE 21-23, 2016

Organized by: 

Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO)

University of Extremadura 

Extremadura Centre for Advanced
Technologies (CETA-Ciemat) 

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
(GRLMC) 

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/

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AIMS: 

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research
using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal
with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement,
evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. 

Previous events were
held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015). 

The conference will
address several of the current challenges in computational biology by
investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a
complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3)
recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing
genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. 

Particular focus will
be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young
scholars at the beginning of their career. 

VENUE: 

AlCoB 2016
will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called "conquistadores"
who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue will be the
Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies. 

SCOPE: 

Topics of
either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

Exact sequence analysis 

Approximate sequence analysis 

Pairwise
sequence alignment 

Multiple sequence alignment 

Sequence assembly

Genome rearrangement 

Regulatory motif finding 

Phylogeny
reconstruction 

Phylogeny comparison 

Structure prediction

Compressive genomics 

Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction
networks 

Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and
quantification, differential analysis 

Next-generation sequencing:
population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics 

Microbiome
analysis 

Systems biology 

STRUCTURE: 

AlCoB 2016 will consist
of: 

invited lectures 

invited tutorials 

peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS: 

tba 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be
completed): 

Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) 

Timothy
L. Bailey (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 

Vladimir
Bajic (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi
Arabia) 

Geoff Barton (University of Dundee, UK) 

Inanc Birol
(University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) 

Alan P. Boyle
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) 

Vladimir Brusic
(NazarbayevUniversity, Astana, Kazakhstan) 

Liming Cai (University of
Georgia, Athens, USA) 

Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, Italy)

Ken Chen (University of Texas MD AndersonCancerCenter, Houston, USA)

Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 

Laurent
Gautier (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA)

Manolo Gouy (ClaudeBernardUniversity Lyon 1, France) 

Michael
Gribskov (PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, USA) 

Iman Hajirasouliha
(Stanford University, USA) 

John Hancock (Genome Analysis Centre,
Norwich, UK) 

Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis,
USA) 

Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, Japan) 

Evangelos Kranakis
(Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) 

Bill Majoros (DukeUniversity,
Durham, USA) 

Lennart Martens (Ghent University, Belgium) 

Maria-Jesus
Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) 

Carlos
Martín-Vide (Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, Tarragona, Spain, chair)

Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) 

Kenta Nakai
(University of Tokyo, Japan) 

Matteo Pellegrini (University of
California, Los Angeles, USA) 

Mihaela Pertea (JohnsHopkinsUniversity,
Baltimore, USA) 

Ben Raphael (BrownUniversity, Providence, USA) 

Denis
Shields (UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland) 

Fredj Tekaia (Pasteur
Institute, Paris, France) 

Fuli Yu (BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston,
USA) 

Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)

Kaizhong Zhang (University of WesternOntario, London, Canada)

Weixiong Zhang (WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA) 

Zhongming
Zhao (VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, USA) 

Yaoqi Zhou
(GriffithUniversity, Brisbane, Australia) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) 

Carlos Martín-Vide
(Tarragona, co-chair) 

Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) 

LOCAL COMMITTEE: 

Leslye
Alarcón (Cáceres) 

María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) 

José M.
Granado-Criado (Cáceres) 

Sergio Santander-Jiménez (Cáceres) 

Miguel
A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) 

SUBMISSIONS: 

Authors are
invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original
and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and
should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer
Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2016 

PUBLICATIONS: 

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the
LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. 

A
special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers
contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION: 

The period for registration is open from October
30, 2015 to June 21, 2016. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/Registration.php 

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: January 26, 2016 (23:59 CET) 

Notification of paper
acceptance or rejection: March 1, 2016 

Final version of the paper for
the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 15, 2016 

Early registration: March
15, 2016 

Late registration: June 7, 2016 

Submission to the journal
special issue: September 23, 2016 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER
INFORMATION: 

florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 2016 

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University 

Av. Catalunya, 35 

43002 Tarragona,
Spain 

Phone: +34 977 559 543 

Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 

Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas
(CETA-CIEMAT) 

Universidad de Extremadura 

Universitat Rovira i
Virgili 

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