Call for Papers - Computational Methods in Systems bio 2015

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** SCOPE **

CMSB 2015 is organized this year in Nantes (France). CMSB 2015 solicits original research articles on the analysis of biological systems, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. It covers both academic research as well as industrial applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

formalisms for modelling biological processes,
models and their biological applications,
frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation of biological systems,
high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations,
model inference from experimental data,
model integration from biological databases,
multi-scale modelling and analysis methods,
computational approaches for synthetic biology.
Case studies in systems and synthetic biology are especially encouraged.



** FORMAT **

Accepted papers will be fully published in a Springer’s Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) and fully indexed. After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended and submitted for a special issue in journal of Biosystems.

The following type of paper should be submitted for publication. Please note the page number for each type of paper.

(i) Original contribution: The limit of the paper is 12 pages. Appendices will not not be counted in the page limit. Submitted papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of original contributions must fall within one of the following categories:
- Theory
- High performance methods
- Tools
- Case studies (applications of systems biology methods to real cases or new open questions in biology that require a systems biology approach)

(ii) Opinion: The limit of the paper is 2 pages. Appendices will not not be counted in the page limit. Submitted papers should present original descriptions of concrete biological models that lead to open questions or methodological locks when considered as systems biology case studies. These descriptions must be precise enough to motivate future developments of computational methods.

All papers for both categories must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair.

Papers abstract pre-submission: 13th April, 2015

Paper submission deadline: 20th April, 2015

Paper notification: 8th June, 2015

A limited number of travel stipends for students and postdocs will be available.