CALL FOR PAPERS

The First Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference

Within Australia Computer Science Week

Adelaide , Australia , 4-7 Feb 2003

http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~chenp/APBC2003

The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development and novel applications of Bioinformatics. The First Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC'03, will be held at the "Adelaide Convention Centre" and hosted by the South Australian Consortium for Information Technology as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. The conference is co-organized by the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet).  

The conference week also includes:

• the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC'03),
• the Australasian Database Conference (ADC'03),
• Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS'03),
• the Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC'03).

As with previous years, registration to the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week.

Key Information

The importance of bioinformatics is growing rapidly and the volume of biological data is increasing exponentially. These data are characterized by variety and heterogeneity: they are related to different organic structures, environments, and spatial scales, and derive from multiple sources. The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge of how to surf this tidal wave of information.

Database management, artificial intelligence, data mining, and knowledge representation can provide key solutions to the challenges presented by biological data. These approaches require powerful and sophisticated computational tools to provide efficient solutions to very complex problems.   Exciting opportunities are emerging for integrating molecular biology components of bioinformatics with computational, physiological, morphological, taxonomic, and ecological components. Addressing this challenge will facilitate the way life science researches access, retrieve, analyze and visualize data and relationships in a collaborative work environment.

We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics.

The main objective of this conference is to bring together researchers in all aspects of computer-based management of biological data.

Topics of Interest

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Bioinformatics Applications

• Computational Analysis of Biological Data

• Scientific/Biological Visualization

• Fuzzy Logic for Biological Data

• Bioinformatics Data Mining & Statistical Modeling

• Complex Data Input

• Intelligent Biological Systems

• Biological Database Migration and Integration

• Data Intensive XML / Web-based Data Access

• High Dimensional Indexing and Similarity Search

GENERAL CHAIR

    Mark Ragan

     University of Queensland , Australia

ORGANIZATION CHAIR

    John F. Roddick

    Flinders University of South Australia , Australia

PROGRAM CHAIR

    Phoebe Chen

   Queensland University of Technology , Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Catherine Abbott              Flinders University, Australia

    Matthew Bellgard             Murdoch Uni, Australia

    Kevin Burrage                   Uni of Queensland , Australia

    Shi-Kuo Chang                  Uni of Pittsburgh , USA

    Ross Coppel                    Monash Uni , Australia

    David Dagan Feng             Uni of Sydney , Australia

    Gavin Huttley                   Au. National Uni , Australia

    Minoru Kanehisa             Kyoto University , Japan

    Nik Kasabov                     Auckland University of Technology, NZ

    Tim Littlejohn                   BioLateral Ltd, Australia

    JingChu Luo                   Peking University , China

    Shoba Ranganathan        APBioNet , Singapore

    Patty Solomon                  Uni of Adelaide , Australia

    Tan Tin Wee                    Nat Uni of Sg , Singapore

    Xindong Wu                      University of Vermont , USA

    Hong Yan                         City Uni of HK, Hong Kong

    Ueng-Cheng Yang             Nat Yang-Ming Uni, Taiwan

    Ren Zhang                       Wollongong Uni, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou                 Uni of Queensland , Australia

IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission of papers:           The deadline for submission has been extended until Sunday 15th September, 2002.

    Notification of acceptance:  Fri, 1 Nov 2002

    Camera-ready copy:              Fri, 15 Nov 2002

    Author registration:              Fri, 13 Dec 2002

    Conference:                        4-7 February 2003

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

APBC2003 invites high-quality original papers on any topic related to Bioinformatics. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (instructions available at the APBC2003 website). Each paper will be fully refereed by an international program committee. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Authors should submit one (1) copy of a PDF or MS Word file with subject as "APBC2003 Paper Submission" to p.chen@qut.edu.au . The proceedings of the conference will be published through the Australian Computer Society as the First Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2003 - Australian Computer Science Communications. The best papers are being offered the opportunity to revise and resubmit their paper for publication in the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.

THE ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE IS AS FOLLOWS:

Dr. Phoebe Chen

Program Chair of APBC2003

Faculty of Information Technology,  

Queensland University of Technology

Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia, Phone: +61 7 3864-9482 Fax: +61 7 38641969

email: p.chen@qut.edu.au