CSBW-2017: The 2017 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop Boston Marriott Boston, MA, United States, August 20-23, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.cs.odu.edu/~bioinfo/CSBW.php |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbw2017 |
Submission deadline | May 8, 2017 |
This year, the Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop will be held in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2017. The rapid accumulation of macromolecular structures presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in the analysis, comparison, modeling, and prediction of macromolecular structures and interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers with expertise in bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, data mining, optimization and high
performance computing to discuss new results, techniques, and research problems in computational structural bioinformatics.
Submission Guidelines
CSBW invites high quality original papers and posters on developments in computational problems relating to molecular structure. Authors of accepted papers will be provided approximately 15-20 minutes to provide an oral summary of their work, with time for questions. Please refer to the website below for details on format and submission. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop to present the paper. Registration to CSBW is complimentary with registration to ACM-BCB 2017.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Structure representations
- Structure prediction and refinement
- Structure comparison and alignment
- Molecular interaction, docking, and simulation
- Coarse-grained modeling
- Mining structural data
- Structural genomics
- Applications of high performance computing to structural problems
- Applications of graph theory and optimization to structural problems
- Structure-based drug design
- Biomolecular graphics
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 08, 2017: Paper submission deadline
Jun 05, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
Jun 19, 2017: Camera-ready paper submission deadline
Aug 20-23, 2017: workshop/ACM-BCB conference (the workshop will be held on Aug. 20)
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the ACM template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) . Submission will be done through the following site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbw2017
Organization
Workshop chairs
- Amarda Shehu, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
- Nurit Haspel, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Kevin Molloy, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
Steering committee
Co-Chairs
- Brian Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University
- Jing He, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University
Members
- Willy Wriggers, Old Dominion University
- Roland L. Dunbrack, Jr., Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research
- Vasant Honavar, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
- Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University
- Lydia Kavraki, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University
- Anna Panchenko (NIH/NLM/NCBI)
- Weiguo Wei, Dept. of Mathematics, Michigan State University
- Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University
- Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University -- Purdue
- University Indianapolis
- Ruth Nussinov, Computational Structural Biology Group, National Cancer Institute, Frederick MD.
Publication
CSBW-2017 proceedings will be published by ACM as part of the ACM-BCB proceedings.
Selected papers will be offered to submit an extended version to a special journal issue with the Molecules journal: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules
Venue
The conference will be held in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2017 at the Boston Mariott in Cambride, MA.
Contact
All questions about the workshop should be emailed to the workshop chairs: nurit.haspel@umb.edu , amarda@gmu.edu or kmolloy717@gmu.edu.