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 address for all correspondence is as follows:

Dr Phoebe Chen
APBC 2003 PC Chair
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane
Queensland 4001
AUSTRALIA

• Paper format and length:10 pages in conforming to the formatting guidelines of the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology. A sample Word style file, LaTeX style file and LaTeX document are available.
  
• Papers must include the authors' names, addresses, email addresses, a 200 word abstract, and 3 to 6 keywords identifying the subject area.
  
• Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work.
  
• Each paper will be fully refereed by an international program committee.
  
• The publisher of the proceedings will be the Australian Computer Society as the 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.

Confirmation of receipt will be given once the file has been successfully printed.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. The contribution of the paper should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms.