Plant & Animal Genome Bioinformatics Workshop

Call for Competitive Paper Submissions

Background

Based on feedback from PAG meeting attendees it was decided to change the structure and organization of the bioinformatics workshops at the conference, such that the three bioinformatics workshops previously held on three separate days in 2001-3, are now consolidated into two sessions to be held on one day, Monday, January 12^th, 2004.

As an additional innovation, the afternoon session of the revised bioinformatics workshop will now be structure into one keynote speaker and five (5) competitive slots, the paper proceedings of which will now be peer reviewed and published in the Bioinformatics Journal (http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org) following the model of other conferences such as the ISMB.

This new format intends to provide a fresh public venue for the presentation and publication of exciting bioinformatics-driven genome research at PAG. Here are the details:

Papers To Be Presented

1.
Kimmen Sjolander
(kimmen@uclink.berkeley.edu)
University of California, Berkeley
PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSIS FOR FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PROTEINS: IS IT WORTH THE TROUBLE?

2.
Brad Chapman
(chapmanb@uga.edu)
University of Georgia
A COMPARATIVE PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH FOR DATING WHOLE GENOME DUPLICATION EVENTS

3.
Lei Liu
(leiliu@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MULTI-SPECIES COMPARATIVE MAPPING IN SILICO USING THE COMPASS STRATEGY

4.
Scott Emrich
(semrich@iastate.edu)
Iowa State University
STRATEGY FOR ASSEMBLING THE MAIZE GENOME

5.
Nikoleta Juretic
(njuret@po-box.mcgill.ca)
McGill University
THE TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT ANNOTATION OF THE RICE GENOME

6.
Youping Deng
(ydeng@ksu.edu)
Kansas State University
COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL CHITINASE-LIKE PROTEINS IN THE Drosophila melanogaster GENOME

Schedule

Papers will be peer reviewed and published by a stepwise process:

August 15^th, 2003	Deadline for submission of abstracts for pre-selection by peer review
September 1^st, 2003	Submissions of full papers invited for competitive peer review from authors of selected abstracts.
September 30^th, 2003	Deadline for submission of full papers by authors of selected abstracts
October 31^st, 2003	Successful authors notified of acceptance for paper presentation; papers sent to the Bioinformatics for layout; papers not accepted for presentation may still be published at the discretion of Bioinformatics editors.
November 30^th, 2003	Corrections to final proofs to Bioinformatics Journal should be submitted
January 2004	Papers in print

Length and Formats

Abstracts: should be submitted to the session organizer, Richard Bruskiewich, via email (r.bruskiewich@cgiar.org), should not exceed 250 words in length and should provide full details of paper authorship including affiliation. Abstracts should generally follow the Bioinformatics journal format of abstract subheadings (i.e. “Motivation”, “Results”, “Availability”, “Contact”, “Supplementary Information”) as required.

Papers: invited papers will be limited to 8 pages with about 750 words per page, following the normal formatting guidelines and word processing templates of the Bioinformatics Journal (see instructions to authors at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/bioinformatics/instauth/auth1.html). Bioinformatics editors will have the final say on suitability of papers for publication.