RECOMB-Seq 2014

RECOMB-SEQ: FOURTH ANNUAL RECOMB SATELLITE WORKSHOP ON MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING

March 31st - April 1st 2014
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Rangos Hall, Carnegie Mellon University - Directions to Rangos Hall

Conference chairs: Mihai Pop (University of Maryland), Ali Bashir (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

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About the Workshop

RECOMB-seq is a workshop held immediately before the main RECOMB conference, with a distinct paper submission process and program. Our goal is to bring together the community of scientists working on methods for the analysis of modern DNA sequencing data.

Scope

The recent revolution in sequencing technology has opened the door for myriads of new applications and bio-medical discoveries. The genomes of thousands of human individuals have already been sequenced and sequencing is increasingly becoming a part of clinical diagnostics, especially in the context of cancer.  Furthermore, efforts are underway to map the genomic diversity on earth, whether in vertebrate species (e.g., the Genome10K project), or in the microbial ecosystems that live in our bodies (e.g., the Human Microbiome project) and our environment (e.g., the Earth Microbiome Project). The complexity and sheer size of the data generated in such projects have highlighted the limitations of current analytical methods. As technology continues to evolve, we are faced with increasing challenges in managing, processing, and extracting meaningful biological information from the data being generated. 

We would like to invite contributions describing new methodology aimed at dealing all aspects of massively parallel sequencing data, including, but not limited to:

Program and Accepted Papers

Tentative Program for RECOMB-Seq 2014

Keynote Speakers

            Prof. Cecilia Lo
F. Sargent Cheever Chair of the Department of Developmental Biology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Prof. Lo is a world renowned developmental biologist who has pioneered innovative approaches for studying developmental mechanisms of congenital heart disease. Her work provides a compelling example of how genomic technologies can be integrated with imaging, mutagenesis, and other experimental approaches to uncover the basis of complex developmental diseases.

            Prof. Ben Raphael
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Brown University
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Prof. Raphael's research is at the interface between computer science, mathematics, and biology. He focuses on the design of combinatorial and statistical algorithms for the interpretation of genomes. Particular areas of emphasis include analysis of structural variation in human and cancer genomes, and network/pathway analysis of genetic variants. He is the recipient of a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Important dates

Paper submission open: September 20, 2013
Regular paper submission deadline: December 16, 2013
Deadline for paper resubmitted from RECOMB: December 16, 2013
Paper acceptance notification: January 23, 2014
Paper final version due: Feburary 13, 2014
Emerging Trends/Poster submission open: January 6, 2014
Emerging Trends/Poster submission deadline: February 7, 2014
Poster acceptance notification: February 14, 2014

Paper and Poster Submission

We are soliciting high-quality contributions that will go through a rigorous peer-review process. Selected papers will be presented at the workshop and published in a special proceedings issue of BMC Bioinformatics. Please pay close attention to manuscript preparation instructions.

In addition we are soliciting original contributions, including significant research in progress to be presented as posters during RECOMB-Seq. The accepted poster abstracts will be published in the workshop book of abstracts. Simultaneous submissions of the same poster to both RECOMB and RECOMB-Seq are permitted. Please pay close attention to poster preparation instructions.

Emerging trends session

This year we plan to organize a session on emerging trends in the use of sequencing data in biomedical research.  The goal of this session is to provide a forum for research in progress in new sequencing technologies and applications of sequencing technologies in new application domains. Oral presentations for this session will be selected from among the poster abstracts.

Submission link

Papers and poster abstracts can be submitted through EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recombseq2014

Special Handling of Papers Submitted to RECOMB'2014

If you would like to consider submitting a paper rejected by RECOMB'2014 to the satellite workshop, you may do so up to December 16(one week after the RECOMB deadline). You must include in your submission the reviews received at RECOMB together with a rebuttal addressing the concerns raised by the reviewers.  Ideally the submitted manuscript must also have been modified according to the reviews, or provide an explanation of why modifications are unnecessary. If additional time is needed to make the necessary changes, please outline in your submission how you plan to address the comments.  Should your paper be accepted, an adequately revised paper must be submitted by the full paper submission deadline. All reviews will be treated confidentially and will only be visible to the PC members evaluating your paper.

Please note that acceptance to RECOMB-Seq is not guaranteed even if you have revised your submission.  All papers, including those submitted directly to RECOMB-Seq, will be equally evaluated on the basis of scientific quality, technical novelty and level of interest to the RECOMB-Seq community.

Manuscript preparation instructions

The cover page should contain the title, author(s) names and affiliations, an abstract, the keywords, and the contact author e-mail. The manuscript 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 the authors believe that more details are absolutely necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix, which might be read at the discretion of the reviewers. Manuscripts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Also pay close attention to the BMC manuscript preparation guidelines.

Poster preparation instructions

Please submit a one-page abstract (about 200 words, plain justified text in at least 10pt character size, formatted to fit A4: 21 x 29.7 cm) of your poster including title, author(s), affiliation, e-mail and abstract text, via the easychair system. The actual poster space will be 90 x 120 cm (width x height), which corresponds to A0 format (or 16 pages in A4 format).

Steering Committee

Program Committee