FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RECOMB 2001) April 22-25, 2001 Montréal, Canada Organized by Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de Montréal Sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-SIGACT) with support from Celera Genomics Compugen IBM Corporation International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) SLOAN Foundation SmithKline Beecham US Department of Energy US National Science Foundation http://recomb2001.gmd.de The Fifth Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2001), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) with support from Celera Genomics, Compugen, IBM Corporation, SLOAN Foundation, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), SmithKline Beecham, US Department of Energy, and US National Science Foundation will be organized by Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université of Montréal, in Montreal, Canada on April 22-25, 2001. The conference will be held at the Montréal Wyndham Hotel. Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of computational molecular biology are sought, including surveys of important recent results/directions. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: Genomics Molecular sequence analysis Recognition of genes and regulatory elements Molecular evolution Protein structure Gene expression Gene networks Combinatorial libraries and drug design Computational proteomics Structural and functional genomics ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts ELECTRONICALLY. The respective email address is recomb01@sigact.acm.org Electronic submission instructions can be found at http://sigact.acm.org/~recomb01/RECOMB2001.html Authors who are unable to do so are requested to send 10 copies (preferably two-sided copies) to: Thomas Lengauer Program Chair RECOMB 2001 Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin Germany Tel: +49 2241 14 2777 Fax: +49 2241 14 2656 email: recomb2001@gmd.de Abstracts must be received by September 30, 2000, 23:59 local time. This is a firm deadline. Simultaneous submission to another conference or journal is allowed. Authors are asked to inform the program chair at the time of submission of the simultaneous submission. The deadline for submission to RECOMB 2001 has been extended to Oct 5, 2000 23:59 middle European time. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The extended abstracts for the conference will be published by ACM Press and will be available at the conference. If the paper has been accepted to another conference or a journal before RECOMB 2001, the authors will be allowed only a short abstract (1 page) in the proceedings of RECOMB 2001 and not an extended abstract. A selection of the accepted extended abstracts in their final journal versions will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology devoted to RECOMB 2001. NOTIFICATION: The conference submissions will be refereed by the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a letter mailed on or before December 8, 2000. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by January 5, 2001. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference and present the paper; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper presented. ABSTRACT PREPARATION: An abstract should start with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. This material should be understandable to non-specialists. A technical exposition directed to the specialist should follow. The length, excluding cover page and bibliography, should not exceed 10 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, using at least 11 point font size on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper with no less than one inch margin all around. If authors believe that more details are absolutely necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix. An email address for the contact author should be included. Abstracts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. POSTERS: RECOMB 2001 will include a poster session. Accepted posters will appear in a special poster book published by Centre de recherches mathématiques. Poster submission instructions will be announced later. CONFERENCE EVENTS: RECOMB 2001 will feature 9 Plenary Lectures (to be announced later) including the following conference events: The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational Biology Address: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the computational aspects of the field. The Distinguished Biology Lecture: awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the biological aspects of the field. The Distinguished New Technologies Lecture: describing emerging, new technologies. Best Paper by a Young Scientist Award: This award will be given to the best paper written solely by one or more recent graduates or students. An abstract is eligible if all authors are recent graduates (within 3 years from Ph.D.) or full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated in a letter to the program chair that accompanies the submission. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. The Conference occasionally awards the "Fred Howes Distinguished Service Award Lecture" in recognition of exceptional service on behalf of the Computational Biology community. INVITED SPEAKERS: George Church Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Philip Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Ruedi Aebersold University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA Mark Adams Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA Roger Brent Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Franz Lang Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Klaus Lindpaintner F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland Yvonne Martin Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA Mark Ptashne Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA CALENDAR: Deadline for submission of papers: Sep 30, 2000 Deadline extended until: Oct 5, 2000, 23:59 MET Notification of acceptance/rejection: Dec 5, 2000 Deadline for reception of final papers: Jan 5, 2001 STEERING COMMITTEE: Sorin Istrail, RECOMB General Vice-Chair Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Thomas Lengauer GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Pavel Pevzner, RECOMB General Chair University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Ron Shamir Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Michael Waterman, RECOMB General Chair University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steve Bryant NCBI, Bethesda, USA Philipp Bucher Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland Gordon Crippen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Antoine Danchin Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Sridhar Hannenhalli Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Liisa Holm EMBL.EBI, Cambridge, England Sorin Istrail Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Richard Karp University of California, Berkeley Thomas Lengauer (Chair) GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany Hans-Peter Lenhof MPI for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany Michal Linial The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Pavel Pevzner University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Isidore Rigoutsos IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA David Sankoff Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Donna Slonim Genetics Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA Terry Speed University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Mike Sternberg Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, England William Taylor National Institute of Medical Research, London, England Martin Vingron German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Tandy Warnow University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Michael Waterman University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Ralf Zimmer GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Thomas Lengauer (Program Chair) GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology   Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany David Sankoff (Conference Chair) Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Nadia El-Mabrouk Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Michael Hallett McGill University, Montréal, Canada François Major Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Thomas Hagedorn Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Theo Mevissen GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology   Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany Louis Pelletier Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Ralf Zimmer GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology   Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany INFORMATION: David Sankoff Conference Chair RECOMB 2001 Centre de recherches mathématique Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville Montréal (Québec) CANADA H3C 3J7 Tel: (514) 343-7501 Fax: (514) 343-2254 email: recomb01@CRM.UMontreal.CA Thomas Lengauer Program Chair RECOMB 2001 Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin Germany Tel: +49 2241 14 2777 Fax: +49 2241 14 2656 email: recomb2001@gmd.de URL: http://recomb2001.gmd.de -> RECOMB 2001