WRSBS: 1st International Workshop on Robustness and Stability of
Biological Systems and Computational Solutions



Call for Papers

WRSBS: 1st International Workshop on Robustness and Stability of
Biological Systems and Computational Solutions (WRSBS'12)
October 7, 2012 Orlando, Florida, USA
http://cise.ufl.edu/~sheikh/wsb/



In conjunction with the 3rd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2012)




In several research areas of computational biology, problems are
modeled using a mathematical optimization criteria, such as likelihood
under a model. In many situations, the configuration of the solution
is at least as important as the objective value. In some areas, such
questions have been tackled using tools like bootstrapping and
jackknifing. Our goal is to bring together researchers from all areas
of computational biology where techniques are being developed to study
the stability of biological systems and computational solutions.
Further, we wish to raise awareness to the issues of stability in all
areas of biology.

We invite original technical contributions, including position papers
on stability and robustness of biological systems and/or computational
solutions in all areas of bioinformatics, including but not limited
to:

Systems Biology

Protein & RNA Structure

Comparative Genomics, Population & Cancer Genomics

Algorithms for Sequence Analysis

Bioimage analysis

Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies



Papers should be at most 7 pages long in the ACM journal format.
Paper should be submitted in PDF/PS format through Easychair at the
following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrsbs2012




Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: July 30, 2012

Notification of acceptance: August 9, 2012

Camera ready deadline: August 16, 2012

Workshop: October 7, 2012

Publication:
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All papers will be published at the workshop proceedings and at the
ACM digital library.
For accepted workshop papers, we require that each camera-ready paper
be formatted strictly according to the official ACM Proceedings
Format. Please submit PDF file only.
To prepare for the camera-ready PDF file submission, you may use
either the Microsoft word template or the Latex files preparation
instructions found here. All final camera-ready submissions must be
accompanied by a completed digital copy (scanned Okay) of the ACM
copyright transfer form, or else the paper cannot be included in the
final workshop proceedings.


Chairs:
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Saad Sheikh

Computer & Information Science & Engineering
University of Florida


Tamer Kahveci

Computer & Information Science & Engineering
University of Florida


Tanya Berger-Wolf

Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago


Gordon Burleigh

Biology
University of Florida