The Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW 2023) being held in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2023 invites high-quality original papers and posters on developments in computational problems relating to biomolecular structure. Authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to give a 20-minute oral summary of their work, with time for questions. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop to have the manuscript appear in the official conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full-length manuscripts up to 8 pages, short-length papers up to 4 pages, where the page limit includes references (use double-column ACM SIG conference format), and poster abstracts can be submitted online. More details of the author's guidelines can be found here. The format instruction can be downloaded from ACM's website. Submissions must be in PDF or Postscript format. If selected, participants will need to submit their revised papers in a format specified upon acceptance.

List of Topics

Possible topics (but not limited to), include the following:

• Structure representation, prediction, and alignment;
• Biomolecular interaction and docking;
• Molecular dynamics simulations;
• Biomolecular graphics;
• Coarse-grained modeling;
• Data mining of structural data;
• Structural genomics;
• Optimization in structural problems;
• High-performance computing in modeling;
• Graph theory applied to structural problems;
• Structure-based drug design;
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning-based methods and approaches in structural biology. 

Committees

Program Committee

• Nasrin Akhter, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY University at Buffalo
• Jin Chen, Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky
• Jianlin Cheng, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - University of Missouri
• Chinwe Ekenna, Dept. of Computer Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
• Negin Forouzesh, Dept. of Computer Science, California State University - Los Angeles
• Nurit Haspel, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts - Boston
• Bruna Jacobson, Dept. of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
• Filip Jagodzinski, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Washington University
• Kazi Lutful Kabir, Dept. of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology - New Jersey
• Kevin Molloy, Dept. of Computer Science, James Madison University
• Olaposi Omotuyi, Center for Bio-Computing and Drug Development, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria
• Amarda Shehu, Dept. of Computer Science, George Mason University

Co-Chairs

• Fardina F. Alam, University of Maryland, College Park: fardina@umd.edu
• Gideon K. Gogovi, Lehigh University: gig323@lehigh.edu

Steering Committee Chair

• Brian Chen, Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University

Steering Committee

• Jing He, Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University
• Willy Wriggers, Old Dominion University
• Roland Dunbrack, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research
• Vasant Honavar, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
• Nurit Haspel, Dept. of Computer Science, UMass Boston
• Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University
• Lydia Kavraki, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University
• Anna Panchenko, NIH/NLM/NCBI
• Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University
• Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis
• Ruth Nussinov, Computational Structure Biology Group, National Cancer Institute, Frederick MD

Invited Speakers

• Dr. Montgomery Pettitt, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch

Publication

Accepted papers and posters of CSBW 2023 will be published in the 2023 ACM-BCB Conference Proceedings and will also be available in the ACM Digital Library.

Special Journal Issue. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts to a special issue of a journal (details coming soon). 

Venue

The workshop is scheduled to be held in-person in conjunction with the ACM-BCB 2023 conference in Houston, TX, September 3-6, 2023.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to CSBW Co-chairs (fardina@umd.edu and gig323@lehigh.edu)