CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RECOMB'99) April 11-14, 1999 Lyon, France Organized by INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) Sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - SIGACT with support from SLOAN Foundation US Department of Energy Smith Kline Beecham http://www.inria.fr/RECOMB99/ The Third Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 99), sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) with support from the SLOAN Foundation, US Department of Energy and Smith Kline Beecham, will be organized by INRIA in Lyon, France, April 11-14, 1999. 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, - Combinatorial libraries and drug design. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are requested to send 10 copies (preferably two sided copies) of a detailed extended abstract (5-10 pages) to: Dr. Sorin Istrail RECOMB 99 Program Chair Sandia National Laboratories Applied Mathematics Department MS 1110 Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 USA An abstract must be received by October 9, 1998. This is a firm deadline. Simultaneous submission to another conference or journal is allowed. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The extended abstracts for the Conference will be published by ACM Press and will be available at the Conference. 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 99. 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 5, 1998. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by January 6, 1999. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the Symposium 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 nonspecialists. 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, preferably using 11 point font size on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper. If authors believe that more details are necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix. An E-mail address for the contact author should be included. CONFERENCE EVENTS: RECOMB 99 will feature 9 invited 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 the submission letter. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. CALENDAR Deadline for reception of papers: October 9th, 1998 Notification of acceptation/rejection: December 5th, 1998 Deadline for reception of final papers: January 6th, 1999 STEERING COMMITTEE Sorin Istrail, RECOMB General Vice-Chair (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Richard Karp (University of Washington, USA) Thomas Lengauer (GMD-SCAI, Germany) Pavel Pevzner, RECOMB General Chair (University of Southern California, USA) Ron Shamir (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Michael Waterman, RECOMB General Chair (University of Southern California, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stephen Altschul (NCBI, NIH, USA) Alberto Apostolico (Purdue University, USA, and University of Padova, Italy) Gary Benson (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA) David Botstein (Stanford University, USA) Jean-Michel Claverie (CNRS, France) Ken Dill (University of California, San Francisco, USA) Andreas Dress (Bielefeld University, Germany) Misha Gelfand (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Alain Guénoche (Universite de Marseille, France) Sorin Istrail, Program Committee Chair (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Tao Jiang (McMaster University, Canada) Richard Karp (University of Washington, USA) John Kececioglu (University of Georgia, USA) Richard Lathrop (University of California Irvine, USA) Thomas Lengauer (GMD-SCAI, Germany) Arthur Lesk (Univeristy of Cambridge, England) Michael Levitt (Stanford University, USA) Pavel Pevzner (University of Southern California, USA) Mireille Regnier (INRIA, France) Rich Roberts (New England Biolabs, USA) Chris Sander (Millenium Pharmaceutical, USA) Miyano Satoru (Tokyo University, Japan) Sophie Schbath (INRA, France) Ron Shamir (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Jeffrey Skolnick (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) Donna Slonim (Whitehead Institute, USA) Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Martin Vingron (Cancer Research Center, Germany) Michael Waterman (University of Southern California, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Florence Balax (INRIA, France) Daniel Kahn (INRA, France) Gregory Kucherov, Publicity Chair (INRIA, France) Mireille Regnier, Organizing Committee Chair (INRIA, France) Sophie Schbath (INRA, France) Annick Theis-Viemont (INRIA, France) INFORMATION INRIA Rocquencourt Relations Exterieures BP 105 78153 Le Chesnay, France Phone: +33 1 39 63 50 53 Fax: +33 1 39 63 56 38 email : symposia@inria.fr http://www.inria.fr/RECOMB99/