COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

The CMSB (Computational Methods in Systems Biology) conference series was established in 2003 to help catalyze the convergence of modellers, physicists, mathematicians, and theoretical computer scientists from fields such as language design, concurrency theory, program verification, and molecular biologists, physicians, neuroscientists interested in a systems-level understanding of cellular physiology and pathology.

CMSB '08 solicits original research articles (including significant works-in-progress), surveys of current research and posters. These may cover theoretical or applied contributions that are motivated by a biological question and can demonstrate either actual or potential usefulness towards answering that question. They may also cover models of computation inspired by biological processes; the motivation may be as much computational as biological. Particularly relevant case studies and open issues from the biological side that demand modeling of systems are of interest as well. The introduction of formal models should be supported by theoretical arguments about the model and/or on the analyses that they enable, by comparisons with other network models, and/or by examples of representation and analysis of a biological system.

topics of interest include, among others:

• Re-engineering and synthesis of biological systems and networks
  
• Definition and study of theoretical properties of biologically-inspired formal languages
• Qualitative and quantitative formal languages
• Theoretical comparisons between different formal models of cellular processes
• Models including symbolic evolution and learning
• Spatial, multi-level, and multi-formalism modeling
  

• Simulation and analysis methods for computational biology
• Biologically-inspired extensions to concurrency theory, constraint programming, logical methods or language equivalences
• Emergence of properties in complex biological systems
• Parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods
• Methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information
  

• Modelling, analysis and simulation tools
• Differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks
• Visualization methods for computational biology
• Biological databases and exchange formats for biological data and standards

• Detailed case-studies on how a biological question was successfully addressed using formal models
• Computer models in nano-sciences applied to biological domains
• Model-driven analysis of biological systems

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general submission guidelines

All submissions to the conference must be handed in via the special submission site:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb08

Before upload you will have to select one of the four submission types (paper, tutorial, poster, phd colloquium contribution).

paper submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original research papers or survey papers of no more than 20 pages in pdf using the LNCS templates, available at the url below

http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings available at the conference. The proceedings will be published as an LNBI volume, under the series named Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics <http://www.springer.com/lncs>, subseries of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer.

There will be two follow-up special issues one in  LNCS journal TCSB and one in Theoretical Computer Science with extended versions of selected papers.

poster submission guidelines

Posters will be presented during the poster session on Monday. The overall size of your poster shall not exceed A0. Your poster should cover the main points of your work and be as self-explanatory as possible. Please submit for review a pdf version of your poster or an up to 4 page description of your work using the LNCS templates.

tutorial proposal submission guidelines

Proposals are invited with an emphasis on tutorials that provide delegates with a greater depth of understanding into a particular area of computational methods in systems biology. The proposal shall include the purpose and background of the subject area, name of speakers, a short curriculum vitae, expected numbers of participants, etc. Tutorials can be up to 3 hrs in length. 

phd colloqium

The PhD colloquium will provide the opportunity for PhD students to discuss their research with experienced scientists and other students. Contributions to the PhD colloquia shall present research projects aiming at a doctorate in the field of computational methods for systems biology. The submissions should contain the planned own contribution, a well-defined project definition, and a list of both previous achievements and related papers (up to 4 pages in LNCS-format).

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steering committee

• Finn Drabløs, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Monika Heiner, TU Cottbus, Germany
• Patrick Lincoln, SRI International, US
• Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Corrado Priami, The Microsoft Research -- University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy
• Magali Roux-Rouquié, CNRS-UPMC, France
• Vincent Schachter, Genoscope, France
• Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany

programme committee

• Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Kevin Burrage, University Queensland, Australia
• Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow, UK
  
• Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
• Claudine Chaouiya, Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Luminy/Marseille, France
• Attila Csikasz-Nagy, Microsoft Resarch - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy
• Finn Drablos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Francois Fages, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
• Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
• David Gilbert, University of Glasgow, UK
• Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Monika Heiner, TU Cottbus, Germany
• Des Higham, University Strathclyde, UK
• Hidde de Jong, INRIA, Rhône Alpes, France
• Walter Kolch, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, UK
• Ursula Kummer, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  
• Wolfgang Marwan, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany
• Ion Moraru, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
  
• Joachim Niehren, INRIA Futurs, Lille, France
• Nicolas Le Novere, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
• Dave Parker, Oxford University, UK
• Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh, UK
  
• Corrado Priami, Microsoft Resarch - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy
  
• Koichi Takahashi, The Molecular Sciences Institute, USA
• Carolyn Talcott, Stanford Research Institute, USA
  
• Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany
• Olaf Wolkenhauer, University of Rostock, Germany

organising committee

• Monika Heiner, University of Cottbus, Germany
  
• Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany