RECOMB-SEQ2019: The Ninth RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Massively Parallel Sequencing (RECOMB-Seq) Washington, DC, United States, May 3-4, 2019 |
Conference website | https://recombseq.recomb2019.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recombseq2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 4, 2019 |
Submission deadline | February 6, 2019 |
A wave of technologies transformed sequencing over a decade ago into the high-throughput era, demanding research in new computational methods to analyze this data. The applications of sequencing have continually expanded. The Ninth RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Massively Parallel Sequencing (RECOMB-Seq) brings together leading researchers in computational genomics and genomic biology to discuss emerging frontiers in algorithm development for massively parallel sequencing data. The emphasis of all contributed work will be on applying statistical and algorithmic approaches to improve sequence data management, analysis, and interpretation.
We welcome manuscript submissions for the tenth annual conference on computational methods for high-throughput sequencing, RECOMB-Seq 2019. Submissions will be accepted starting December 21st, 2018 and open until February 6th, 2019. It is required to submit an abstract for your manuscript before February 4th.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Read mapping for second and third generation sequencing technologies.
- Techniques for managing and visualizing massive amounts of sequencing data.
- Consensus sequence construction.
- Discovery and genotyping of genomic variants, including SNPs, indels,and structural variants.
- Local and de novo sequence assembly.
- Methods for analysis of RNA sequencing data, including RNA expression, novel transcript assembly, and splicing
- Methods for novel sequencing technologies including but not limited to single-cell sequencing, linked-read sequencing and Hi-C.
- Translational applications of sequencing data, including cancer genomics and infectious disease
- Epigenetics and gene regulation, including ChIP-seq analysis, methylation profiling, and histone modification.
Submission Guidelines
We solicit contributions in four different categories as follows:
1. Proceedings track: This track solicits manuscripts describing original work on computational aspects of genomic research involving massively parallel sequencing. All manuscripts in this track will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal iScience (https://www.cell.com/iscience/). At the time of submission, and for the entire review period, the work should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal. Authors of manuscripts that are selected for oral presentation at RECOMB-seq after review but are not deemed suitable for iScience (or if the authors do not select publication in iScience) will be required to host their manuscript on a public preprint server.
Publication in iScience is subject to a publication charge of $3000 (https://www.cell.com/iscience/authors). Authors who do not wish their manuscript to be considered for iScience should use the overlay track for submission.
2. Overlay track: Manuscripts submitted to this track will be reviewed by the program committee and selected submissions will be invited for oral presentation. The manuscript should be hosted on a public preprint server (bioRxiv, arXiv or PeerJ) at the time of submission. There are no specific formatting or page length requirements, but the paper should generally be formatted in a way that emphasizes the methodological contributions. Manuscripts can be submitted elsewhere at the same time but should not be published or in press at the time of submission.
3. Highlights track: This track is for papers that have already been published or are in press. This track is joint with the main conference (deadline Jan 31 2019). For instructions and more details, see the main website.
4. Abstracts for short talks or posters: Regular abstracts describing original work, including software applications. These will be considered for short oral presentations or posters. A 1-2 page abstract describing the methods and key results should be submitted via the EasyChair system.
Special Handling of Papers Submitted to RECOMB 2019: If you would like to consider submitting a paper rejected by RECOMB 2019 to the workshop, you may do so by the regular deadline of February 6th. You must include in your submission a Cover Letter that includes the reviews received from RECOMB together with a rebuttal addressing the concerns raised by the reviewers. The submitted manuscript should also be modified according to the reviews, or provide an explanation of why modifications are unnecessary. All reviews will be treated confidentially and will only be visible to the PC members evaluating your paper.
Important Dates
* Abstract submissions due: February 4th, 2019
* Final deadline: February 6th, 2019
* Poster submission deadline: March 15th, 2019
* Author notification: March 4th, 2019
* Workshop: May 3rd and 4th, 2019
Program Committee
- Mukul Bansal - University of Connecticut
- Vikas Bansal - University of California, San Diego (co-Chair)
- Niko Beerenwinkel - ETH Zurich
- Christina Boucher - University of Florida (co-Chair)
- Mark Chaisson - University of Southern California
- Rayan Chikhi - CNRS, France
- Leonid Chindelevitch - Simon Fraser University
- Travis Gagie - Diego Portales University, Chile
- Iman Hajirasouliha - Weill Cornell Medicine
- Fereydoun Hormozdiari - University of California, Davis
- Andre Kahles - ETH Zurich
- Wenxiu Ma - University of California Riverside
- Paul Medvedev - The Pennsylvania State University
- Hosein Mohimani - Carnegie Mellon University
- Layla Oesper - Carleton College
- Simon Puglisi - University of Helsinki
- Leena Salmela - University of Helsinki
- Michael Schatz - Johns Hopkins University
- Marcel Schulz - Goethe University
- Russell Schwartz - Carnegie Mellon University
- Jouni Siren - University of California, Santa Cruz
- Sharma Thankachan - University of Central Florida
- Fabio Vandin - University of Padova
- Jerome Waldispuhl - McGill University
- Alex Zelikovsky - Georgia State University
- Shaojie Zhang - University of Central Florida
- Degui Zhi - University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston