Dear colleagues, please find attached the Call for Papers for a special track on Computational Proteomics at the IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2006), to be held in Salt Lake City, USA, on next June 22-23, 2006. For more detailed information, please visit the track website: http://bioinformatics.unicz.it/cbms2006/ Best regards. Paolo Romano --- Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it) Bioinformatics and Structural Proteomics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295 Web: http://www.nettab.org/promano/ ---- IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2006) Marriott Salt Lake City's City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 22-23, 2006. Special Track Computational Proteomics: Management and Analysis of Proteomics Data Special Track Website: http://bioinformatics.unicz.it/cbms2006/ CALL FOR PAPERS (full text available at the website) This Special Track is designed to bring together computer scientists, biologists and clinicians for exploring the current state-of-the-art research taking place in all aspects of computational proteomics, from basic science to clinical practice. The track intends to provide a forum for the presentation of original research, valuable software tools (basic algorithms, modelling, analysis, and visualization tools, databases), and clinical fallouts, on topics of importance to computational proteomics, with special emphasis on MS-based approaches. TOPICS OF INTEREST Methods, algorithms and techniques for proteomics data organization, storage and analysis, as well as the use of proteomics methods and techniques in clinical practice are the key topics of this Special Track. Whatever technique being used, proteomics data are huge, involve heterogeneous platforms and require high performance computing, so presentation of high performance and Grid-based computational methods, as well as semantic-rich methods for in silico workflow composition are welcomed. Examples of areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Spectra data models and databases * Spectra-related data banks (e.g. Mascot, Sequest) * Spectra pre-processing algorithms * Peptide/protein identification * Protein-protein interactions * Data Mining techniques for proteomics data * Statistical analysis of proteomics data * Image analysis and visualization of proteomics data * 2-D Gel proteomics data and analysis * Virtual Proteomics Laboratory * Data integration and proteomics * Technologies and models to store phenotype, genotype and proteotype data; * Integration of proteomics and clinical data for diagnosis and treatment * Application of proteomics methods in clinical practice * Workflow of proteomics experiments * Knowledge Management and ontologies in proteomics * Parallel and Grid-based computational proteomics * Standards in proteomics IMPORTANT DATES: January 31, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance April 5, 2006 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 8, 2006 Pre-registration deadline PAPER SUBMISSION (full text available at the website) http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/how.html#submission Interested authors should submit a 3-6 pages manuscript (or approximately 1500-3000 words) clearly describing background, goals, methods, results and a listing of primary references. Presented material should include sufficient detail to enable the program committee in reviewing the article. Please note that the format of IEEE CBMS 2006 proceedings will be the IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch format, available at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files TRACK CHAIRS * Mario Cannataro * Giovanni Cuda * Pierangelo Veltri University 'Magna Graecia' of Catanzaro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (provisional) * Alberto Apostolico * Gerard Cagney * Tim Clark * David De Roure * Giuseppe Di Fatta * Marco Gaspari * Carole Goble * Concettina Guerra * Des Higgins * Hasan Jamil * Maria Mirto * Giovanni Morrone * Luigi Palopoli * Helen Parkinson * Stephen Pennington * Emmanuel F. Petricoin * Omer F. Rana * Roberto Tagliaferri * Domenico Talia * Chris Taylor * Rosa Terracciano * Gordon R. Whiteley