From Hunter@nlm.nih.gov Fri Apr 8 18:06:36 EDT 1994 Article: 21455 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:21455 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!lhc!lhc!hunter From: hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov (Larry Hunter) Subject: HICSS-28 Biotechnology Computing Track call for papers Message-ID: Sender: news@nlm.nih.gov Reply-To: Hunter@nlm.nih.gov Organization: National Library of Medicine Distribution: net Date: 31 Mar 1994 18:08:24 GMT Lines: 152 Call for Papers Biotechnology Computing Track Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 28 Maui, Hawaii --- January 3-6, 1995 The twenty-eighth annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) will include a three day conference track on Biotechnology Computing. The Biotechnology Computing Track provides a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, and system building activities in all areas of computation related to biology. It includes presentations of original research, tutorials, advanced seminars and a distinguished guest lecture. The conference is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM). Advances in biotechnology generally and in the international Human Genome Project are creating an explosion of fundamental biological data underlying all life processes. The computational problems in gathering, managing and analyzing this explosion are daunting, but the challenges are exciting and the potential payoff is very high. Every aspect of computer science is involved, from algorithm development, systems integration and advanced database management to image analysis, parallel computing, artificial intelligence and robotics. The Biotechnology Computing Track presents the leading edge of this research in five minitracks, each focused on a rapidly evolving research area. Relevant papers are solicited for each of the minitrack areas listed below. Papers must be previously unpublished, and should be from 22-26 double spaced pages in length, including figures. Submitted papers are subject to a rigorous peer review process with written reviews from at least five referees. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which is also made generally available by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Prospective authors are urged to contact the appropriate minitrack chair as early as possible. Please leave adequate time for international mail, as all deadlines are firm. For general information, or proposals for tutorials, advanced seminars and review papers, contact the track chair: Lawrence Hunter (hunter@nlm.nih.gov) National Library of Medicine Building 38A, Mail Stop 54 Bethesda, MD 20894 USA +1 (301) 496-9300 +1 (301) 496-0673 (fax) The other members of the Track steering committee are: * Tom Marr, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA * John Wootton, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA * Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University, Japan * Peter Edwards, Aberdeen University, Scotland DEADLINES: Full manuscripts must be RECEIVED by June 15, 1994 Notification of accepted papers will be sent by August 31, 1994 Accepted camera ready copy must be RECEIVED by October 1, 1994 International mail can be slow. We recommend use of courier services to international destinations. BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPUTING MINITRACKS AND CHAIRS. Please contact the relevant minitrack chair as soon as possible for further information on the requirements and deadlines for that minitrack. * Project-Oriented Databases and Knowledge Bases in Genome Research: Database and knowledge base tools and technologies that support the management of specific research groups or purposes, e.g. community databases for specialized research groups, laboratory notebooks, data management system supporting experiments, links between different databases, biological function knowledge bases, knowledge representation for biological functions and data models and structures for genome data. Toshihisa Takagi (takagi@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108 JAPAN Tel. +81-3-3443-8111 ex.613 Fax: +81-3-3440-6173 * Parallel Computing for Computational Biology: The use of parallel and distributed computer systems and software in computational biology, including for molecular modeling, protein folding, sequence analysis, linkage analysis and other problems in the biological sciences. Timothy G. Mattson (tgm@ssd.intel.com) L. Ridgway Scott (scott@uh.edu) Intel Corp., Supercomputer Systems Division Mail Stop CO6-09 14924 N.W. Greenbrier Pkwy Beaverton, Oregon 97229 USA phone: +1 (503) 531-5627 fax: +1 (503) 531-5501 * Stochastic Models and Grammars for Bioinformatics: including hidden Markov models, regular grammar, context-free grammar, stochastic grammars and other stochastic approaches to recognize or analyze genetic/protein sequences and their structures. Kiyoshi Asai (asai@etl.go.jp) Hidetoshi Tanaka (htanaka@icot.or.jp) Institute for New Generation Computer Technology Mita Kokusai Bldg. 21F, 1-4-28, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108 Japan FAX : +81-3-3456-1618 * Computer Tools for Molecular Modeling: current research in computer algorithms and systems for molecular modeling and drug design. Teri E. Klein (klein@cgl.ucsf.edu) Mark C. Surles (surles@sdsc.edu) University of California, San Francisco 513 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0446 San Francisco, California 94143 USA phone: +1 (415) 476-0663 fax: +1 (415) 502-1755 * Protein Structure Prediction: Novel computational advances relevant to protein structure prediction from the primary sequence, including direct and "inverse" folding, homology-derived, statistical, machine learning, analytic, modeling, pattern-based, and related methods. Richard Lathrop (rickl@ai.mit.edu) Keith Dunker (dunker@bobcat.csc.wsu.edu) MIT AI Laboratory NE43-795 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA +1 (617) 253-8833 +1 (617) 258-8682 (fax) -- Lawrence Hunter, PhD. National Library of Medicine Bldg. 38A, MS-54 Bethesda. MD 20894 USA tel: +1 (301) 496-9300 fax: +1 (301) 496-0673 internet: hunter@nlm.nih.gov encryption: public key via RIPEM server or "finger hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov"