[CPM-SPIRE-L] German Conference on Bioinformatics 2015 - Call for submissions

[GCB 2015]

Call for submissions
German Conference on Bioinformatics 2015 (GCB'15)
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Please distribute this call to interested colleagues,
and please excuse us if you receive multiple copies
of this call.

GCB 2015 invites the submission of papers on all aspects of
bioinformatics.

The conference language is English.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Methods for genomics and metagenomics
* Methods for transcriptomics and metatranscriptomics
* Methods for metabolomics
* Poly-omics analyses
* Personalized medicine
* Network and pathway analysis
* Bioimage informatics
* Structural modeling
* Visualization of large biological datasets
* Workflow management for big data


GCB invites contributions of the following types, with detailed
information below:
* Workshops and tutorials (31.05.2015)
* Proceedings papers (30.06.2015), published at PeerJ PrePrints
* Highlight abstracts (30.06.2015)
* Junior research group presentations (30.06.2015), new!
* Poster abstracts (31.07.2015)

See also http://www.gcb2015.de


Call for Workshops and Tutorials by May 31, 2015
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A whole day of GCB (Sunday, September 27, 2015) is devoted to tutorials
and workshops on current hot topics of bioinformatics.
This is an excellent opportunity for new PhD students
(or more experienced scientists entering a new research area)
to get up to speed with new methods, techniques and tools.

While tutorials provide an in-depth introduction to a particular method,
technique or tool (e.g., a collection of R/BioConductor packages, or
multiple testing in bioinformatics), workshops should provide a broad
overview of a current hot topic, where the workshop organizers invite
or call for contributions from experts in the field.

Both workshop and tutorials can be half-day (3 hrs, morning or
afternoon), or full-day (2x 3hrs).
Please clearly indicate the duration in the proposal.

Prospective workshop or tutorial organizers are encouraged to contact
the GCB program chairs and submit a workshop proposal until 31.05.2015.
Please submit your proposal electronically as a pdf file to
tutorial- at -gcb2015-dot-de with the subject line "GCB workshop proposal: 
yourworkshoptitle".

Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop,
inviting and selecting the contributions and guaranteeing a high quality
worthy of the prestige and range of the conference.
Workshop papers will not be published in the GCB conference proceedings,
but may be published in other formats chosen by the workshop organizers.

Both tutorial and workshop submissions must include
* name and affiliations of the organizers,
* a one-page description of the topic and its relevance and value to the
GCB community,
* a brief description of the submitters' qualification/experience with
the topic.

Workshop submission must further include
* a draft time schedule for the workshop (CFP, deadlines, etc.),
* a list of potential members of the workshop's program committee,
* an estimation of the number of attendees,
* a draft list of potential authors / presenters.

Tutorial submissions must include
* proof of the submitters' pedagogical qualifications

Important: Workshop organizers and speakers must pay their expenses,
including GCB registration, to participate in the meeting.
The GCB organizers will help in the administrative aspects of assigning
the rooms, announcements and adding the detailed schedule to the 
conference program.
Note that the GCB cannot financially support the speakers or the
workshop organizers.
(Exceptions due to unusual circumstances can be discussed with the
program chairs.)


Call for Proceedings Papers (Extended Abstracts) by June 30, 2015
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Proceedings papers are like regular computer science conference papers.
These submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee
and judged by quality, originality and relevance.

Accepted papers will be published as a special collection
at PeerJ PrePrints with a unique "GCB 2015" label.
Authors of accepted papers will have the additional option to submit
them (or an extended version) to the regular PeerJ journal (either
PeerJ Computer Science, or PeerJ the biology journal,
depending on which journal is more appropriate) immediately or later,
together with the conference reviews to facilitate speedier review at
the journal.
Accepted papers which are published at PeerJ will also appear in the
"GCB 2015" Collection (a virtual collection of all the "GCB 2015" output 
which is published at PeerJ).
Of course, authors may alternatively submit their work to any other
journal of their choice that allows existing preprints.

Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, and at least one 
author of each accepted paper must register before the early 
registration deadline.

Proceedings papers must be submitted via EasyChair and should be 8-10
pages long using the provided template (see the submissions page).


Call for Highlight Abstracts by June 30, 2015
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Highlight abstracts should refer to one or two of the authors' recent
papers that report on work of high importance and were published during 
the present or past year.
Typical topics might include biological findings with bioinformatics
methods, new computational methods or new software tools.
The general topics of interest correspond to those for proceedings papers.

The abstracts should summarize the findings of the referenced paper(s),
explain their importance and mention which areas of the paper(s) the
talk will focus on, as opposed to presenting the whole paper(s).
Highlight abstract submissions will be reviewed by the program committee
and judged by the importance and novelty of the findings and by
relevance to the conference audience.

Accepted highlight abstracts will collected into one document "Highlight
Abstracts of GCB 2015" that will be published at PeerJ Preprints in the
"GCB 2015" Collection. Accepted highlight abstracts must be presented
at the conference, and at least one author of each accepted abstract
must register before the early registration deadline.

Highlight abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair, should be at most 4
pages long and use the provided abstract template.


Call for Junior Research Group Presentations (New!) by June 30, 2015
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This new track calls for abstracts from junior group leaders
(definition: have their own (small) group, do not have a permanent 
position) to present their area of research and to highlight recent 
findings from their group.

These abstracts should be similar to highlight abstracts,
but may reference more of the group's papers, giving a good and complete
picture of the group's research focus as a whole.

Accepted highlight abstracts will collected into one document "Junior
Research Group Presentations of GCB 2015" that will be published at
PeerJ Preprints in the "GCB 2015" Collection. Accepted junior research
group presentations must be given at the conference, and the group
leader must register before the early registration deadline.

Junior research group abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair,
should be at most 4 pages long and use the provided abstract template.


Call for Posters by July 31, 2015
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Posters should present recent scientific work in any area of bioinformatics.

Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee for
clarity and novelty.
Accepted poster abstracts will collected into one document "Poster
Abstracts of GCB 2015"
that will be published at PeerJ Preprints in the "GCB 2015" Collection.

Accepted posters must be brought to and presented at the conference.
The designated poster presenter must register before the early
registration deadline and indicate whether she or he wants to give a
flash presentation (1 slide, 1 minute).

Poster abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair,
can be at most a single page long (including references) and use the
provided abstract template.


Detailed Information
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Please visit http://www.gcb2015.de for details and submission information.
At this time, LaTeX templates for submissions are online, but EasyChair
submission is not yet open.


Best regards,
Axel Mosig
Sven Rahmann

-- 
The GCB 2015 organizers
contact at gcb2015.de