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<font size=3>5th European Conference on Computational Biology - ECCB
‘06<br><br>
Eilat, Israel<br><br>
September 10-13, 2006<br><br>
<a href="http://www.eccb06.org/" eudora="autourl">www.eccb06.org<br><br>
</a>** Call for Papers, Posters, Software Demos, Workshops, and
Tutorials<br><br>
The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is the leading
European and one of the primary international conferences in
computational biology and bioinformatics. The fifth meeting in this
series will be held on September 10-13, 2006 in the resort town of Eilat,
Israel. The meeting will be held jointly with the 9th Israeli
Bioinformatics Symposium.<br><br>
Leading researchers and practitioners in computational biology,
bioinformatics, and bio-IT, from Europe and around the world, will gather
at ECCB ‘06 for four days of presentations, poster sessions, workshops,
software demonstrations, and professional discussions<br><br>
** Keynote speakers (confirmed)<br><br>
Prof. Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science<br>
Prof. Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley<br>
Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School<br><br>
** Scientific presentations<br><br>
We invite you to present your work in any area of computational biology
and bioinformatics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:<br><br>
* Biomedicine, epidemiology, & agriculture<br>
* Computational genomics<br>
* Computer-aided drug design<br>
* Databases & database integration<br>
* Evolution and phylogenetics<br>
* Metabolomics<br>
* Ontologies<br>
* Pathways, networks, and systems<br>
* Proteomics<br>
* Sequence analysis<br>
* Simulation & system dynamics<br>
* Structural bioinformatics<br>
* Text mining<br>
* Transcriptomics<br><br>
Original research papers: Papers, which should describe previously
unpublished work, will undergo thorough peer review. Accepted papers will
be published in a leading journal in the field and will be indexed in
Medline and ISI.<br><br>
Posters: Posters, representing condensed descriptions of ongoing work,
will be displayed during the meeting.<br><br>
Workshops and Tutorials: The conference will be preceded by a day of
special-interest workshops and tutorials on cutting-edge topics. Please
submit proposals for workshops that you would like to organize and
tutorials that you would like to present.<br><br>
Software demonstrations: A room will be available for demonstrating
software that is relevant to the computational biology and bioinformatics
community. Presentation will be free of charge for participants from
academic and other non-profit institutions.<br><br>
** Key dates<br><br>
15 Mar 2006 - Paper submission deadline<br>
29 May 2006 - Notification of paper acceptance<br><br>
08 Jun 2006 - Poster submission deadline<br>
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08 Jun 2006 - Software demo proposal submission deadline<br>
29 Jun 2006 - Notification of software demo
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15 Mar 2006 - Workshop / tutorial proposal submission deadline<br>
15 May 2006 - Notification of workshop / tutorial
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10 Jul 2006 - Early registration
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** Help us get the word out!<br><br>
Please download the formatted version of this call for participation and
post it on your door or a nearby bulletin board:<br>
<a href="http://www.eccb06.org/other/callforparticipation.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.eccb06.org/other/callforparticipation.pdf<br><br>
</a>** For further information<br><br>
Please see the conference website,
<a href="http://www.eccb06.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.eccb06.org</a>, or send e-mail to the conference secretariat
at eccb06@diesenhaus.com. </font></body>
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