March 8-11, 2002
Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Held in Conjunction with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS-02)
Program Chair: Vasant Honavar, , Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Iowa State University
Honorary Chairs:
Terry Magnuson, University of North Carolina;
James Siedow, Duke University; and
Bruce Weir, North Carolina State University
Index
Important Notices
Dec 14: The acceptance notifications for submitted papers will be sent on or before Dec. 30.
Dec 3: The deadline for early registration has been extended to Dec 31. This is to accomodate the delay in notification resulting from the extended deadline for paper submission.
Development of high throughput data acquisition technologies in biological sciences, together with advances in digital storage, computing, and communications technologies have begun to transform biology in general, and molecular biology in particular, from a data poor science to a data rich science. Examples of biological data sets include DNA and protein sequence data, macromolecular structure and function data, and gene expression data.
A major goal of computational molecular biology is to develop information processing or algorithmic accounts of biological questions such as: How is information encoded, stored, decoded, and used in biological systems? What sequence regularities (if any) are predictive of protein function? How can we precisely characterize the syntax (grammar) and semantics (meaning) of macromolecular sequences? How do hundreds of genes interact over time to orchestrate specific biological processes of interest (neural development, disease, aging)? Research in computational biology requires the development of sophisticated databases, knowledge bases, ontologies, algorithms and software tools for data storage and retrieval, data integration, information extraction, exploratory data analysis and discovery (through data mining and data visualization), experiment design, using heterogeneous biological data sources. Design and development of such tools is a major goal of bioinformatics or genome informatics.
Against this background, the Fourth Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics CBGI-02) seeks to bring together researchers working on all aspects of computational biology and bioinformatics to exchange recent research results in this area. The conference also aims to foster a community of researchers interested in this area. CBGI-02 grew out of the Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technology, which was last held in North Carolina in March 01. In response to the growing interest and participation of researchers from around the world in the previous symposia, CBGI-02 marks a transition of the Atlantic Symposium into a major international conference.
CBGI will be held in conjunction with the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS). JCIS includes 10 related conferences and workshops, and CBGI participants paying full JCIS conference registration fees may attend any of the sessions held during the 7-day meeting.
Conference Format
The Fourth Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI-02) will include:
The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion
of original research on all aspects of computational biology and genome
informatics including, but not limited to:
Biological Databases
Program Chair:
Vasant Honavar Iowa State University, USA.
Publicity Chairs:
Stephen A. Krawetz, Wayne State University; and
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University
Tutorials Chair:
Alberto Segre, University of Iowa
Plenary Sessions Chairs:
Drena Dobbs,
Iowa State University; and
Cathy Wu, Georgetown University
Workshops Chair:
Xiaoqiu Huang, Iowa State University
Poster Session Chair:
Rajesh Parekh, Blue Martini
Industrial Liaison:
Lisa Lorenzen, Iowa State University
Richa Agrawala, National Institutes of Health, USA
Local Arrangements Committee
Limited financial support may be available,
subject to the availability of funds, for:
Notice:
The deadline for early registration has been extended to Dec 31. This is to accomodate the delay in notification resulting from the extended deadline for paper submission.
Attendees can register for CBGI-02 or (at a discounted rate) for all the JCIS-02 conferences. Registration information for the conference is available here. If you have any questions concerning registrations, please contact Anna Menzies, JCIS manager.
All accepted papers and extended abstracts of posters will be included in the conefernce proceedings to be published by the Association for Intelligent Machinery.
Biological Data Integration
Biological Data Mining
Biological Data Visualization
Biological Information Extraction
Biological Information Retrieval
Biological Knowledge Bases
Biological Knowledge Representation and Infererence
Bioontologies
Computational Drug Discovery
Functional Genomics
Gene Expression Databases
Gene Expression Analysis
Gene Identification
Genetic Network Modelling and Inference
Gene Regulation
Generative Models of Molecular Sequences
Grammatical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Information Theoretic Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Metabolic Pathway Inference
Molecular Dynamics and Simulation
Molecular Evolution
Molecular Sequence Alignment
Molecular Sequence Assembly
Molecular Sequence Classification
Molecular Sequence Databases
Molecular Sequence Pattern and Motifs
Molecular Structure Databases
Molecular Structural Motifs
Macromolecular Structure Prediction
Phylogeny Construction
Proteomics
Protein Folding
Protein Fold Recognition
Protein Function Prediction
Protein Structure Matching and Alignment
Protein Structure Prediction
Protein-Protein Interactions
RNA Structure Prediction
Software Environments for Bioinformatics
Software Tools for Computational Biology
Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA
Rachelle Bienstock, NIH, NIEHS, USA
Burns C. Blaxall, Incellico, USA
Alvis Brazma, European Molecular Biology Institute, UK
Volker Brendel, Iowa State University, USA
Tom Casavant, University of Iowa, USA
David K.Y. Chiu, University of Guelph, Canada
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA
Hui-Hsien Chou, Iowa State University, USA
Mark Danielsen, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA
Drena Dobbs, Iowa State University, USA
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University, USA
Rohan Fernando, Iowa State University, USA
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Xiaoqiu Huang, Iowa State University, USA
Cheng-Yan Kao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Stephen Krawetz, Wayne State University, USA
Thomas H. LaBean, Duke University, USA
Kim Laurio, University of Skövde, Sweden
Jae K. Lee, University of Virginia, USA
Simon Lin, Duke University, USA
Michael Lutz, Glaxo Smith Kline, USA
Winnell H. Newman, North Carolina State University, USA
Bjorn Olsson, University of Skövde, Sweden
David Page, University of Wisconsin, USA
Rajesh Parekh, Blue Martini, USA
Naren Ramakrishnan, Virgina Polytechnic and State University, USA
Alejandro Schaeffer, NCBI, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA
Stephen Scott, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Alberto Segre, University of Iowa, USA
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, USA
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Jian Su, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Gautam B. Singh, Oakland University, USA
Ralph Silibaldi, Operon Technologies, USA
Bruno Sobral, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA
Steve Thompson, Florida State University, USA
Dake Wang, Lumicyte, USA
Xiong Wang, California State University, USA
Jason Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Cathy Wu, Georgetown University, USA
Anna Menzies, JCIS Manager, Association for Intelligent Machinery
Paul P. Wang, Duke University, USA
Howard Clark, Duke University, USA
Additional details will be posted as they become available.
