IEEE ICCABS 2013

About

3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)

( I C CABS - I see cabs that will transport me to eternal knowledge, wisdom and bliss! )

June 12-14, 2013, Crowne Plaza, New Orleans Airport, LA

Advances in high-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences, resulting in the collection of unprecedented amounts of biological and medical data. Using this data to advance our knowledge about fundamental biological processes and improve human health requires novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms. IEEE ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Biological modeling and simulation, Biomedical image processing, Biomedical data and literature mining, Computational genetic epidemiology, Computational metabolomics, Computational proteomics, Databases and ontologies, Gene regulation, Genome analysis, Health Informatics, High-performance bio-computing, Immunoinformatics, Molecular evolution, Population genomics, Sequence analysis, Structural bioinformatics, Systems biology, Transcriptomics.

Two special issues of journals (BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics) on selected extended abstracts will be published. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support). This year we also plan to have review sessions where researchers get to present their results (possibly published in other venues). These results will not appear in the proceedings.

To subscribe to the ICCABS mailing list and receive all conference announcements visit: http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/iccabs-l

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2011's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2011/

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2012's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2012/

Committees

Steering Committee

Srinivas Aluru - Iowa State University
Reda A. Ammar - U. of Connecticut
Tao Jiang - U.C. Riverside
Vipin Kumar - U. of Minnesota
Ming Li - U. of Waterloo
John Reif - Duke University
Sartaj Sahni - U. of Florida
S. Rajasekaran (Chair) - U. of Connecticut

General Chairs

Srinivas Aluru - Iowa State University
S. Rajasekaran - U. of Connecticut

Program Chairs

Vladimir Filkov - U. of California, Davis

Knut Reinert - Freie Universität, Berlin

Finance Chairs

Reda A. Ammar - U. of Connecticut
Yufeng Wu - U. of Connecticut

Publicity Chair

Jaroslaw Zola - Rutgers Univeristy

Proceedings Chair

Sudipta Pathak - U. of Connecticut

Local Arrangements Chair

Subrata Saha - U. of Connecticut

Webmaster

Priya Periaswamy - U. of Connecticut

Program Committee

Ovidiu Daescu

Program

To download the current version of the program, please CLICK HERE.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF format by following the instructions at

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iccabs2013.

Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

and should not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).

Camera-ready Instructions

The deadline for approving your PDF for collection on the PDF eXpress site and faxing the signed copyright form is

*** Monday, May 27, 2013 ***

Step-by-step instructions are as follows:

Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

The appropriate copyright clearance code notice must be added to the left bottom of the first page of the paper (in footer). Also, page numbers should be added to the center of the footer on all pages. The copyright notices are listed below. LateX commands needed to add the general copyright notice (c) and page numbers to the manuscript are included at the end of these instructions
- For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is:
  U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
- For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-4673-1321-6/12/$31.00 ©2013 Crown
- For all other papers the copyright notice is: 978-1-4673-1321-6/12/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE

Create an account on IEEE PDF eXpress at

http://www.pdf-express.org/

using the conference ID iccabs2013x

Use IEEE PDF eXpress to check your PDF. For detailed instruction on how to use PDF express please click here.

Once checked, submit the paper back to easychair (as a new version of your paper).

Sign and send the attached IEEE copyright form. It is sufficient for one of the authors to sign the copyright form. Forms should be scanned into PDF or any other standard image format and emailed to sudipto.pathak@gmail.com.

Notes:

To add page numbers and the general copyright notice in a document prepared using LateX:

- Add the following commands after the usepackage commands

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
                        
                        \usepackage{lastpage}
                        
                        \pagestyle{plain}
                        
                        \lhead{}
                        
                        \lfoot{978-1-4673-1321-6/12/\$31.00 \copyright2013 IEEE}
                        
                        \cfoot{\thepage}
                        
                        \rhead{}
                        
                        \rfoot{}
                        
                        \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
                        
                        \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

- Add the following commands between the "\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle" command and the first section start


                        "\section{Introduction}"
                        
                        \setcounter{page}{1}
                        
                        \thispagestyle{fancy}

Keynotes and Invited Talks

Confirmed Keynote Talks

Dan Gusfield - UC Davis
Oliver Kohlbacher - Universität Tübingen
Satoru Miyano - The University of Tokyo

Confirmed Invited Talks

Mehmet Koyutürk, Case Western Reserve University
Yuri Khudyakov, CDC
Ion I. Moraru, University of Connecticut Health Center

Registration

Registration to the conference has to be done through regonline. Conference Registration Fees:

IEEE Members: $600
IEEE Non-members and late registration : $800
IEEE Student members: $250
IEEE Student non-members: $350
IEEE Life/Retired members: $250.

Posters and Highlights Fees:

IEEE Members: $350
IEEE Non-members and late registration : $450

Workshop Registration Fees:

IEEE Members: $300
IEEE Non-members and late registration : $400
IEEE Student members: $100
IEEE Student non-members: $150
IEEE Life/Retired members: $100

Invited Speakers : $300

Please follow this link to register to the conference: https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=129

Workshops

Please follow this link to register to the Workshop: https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=129

I) Big Data in Life Sciences	Ananth Kalyanaraman - Washington State University Jaroslaw Zola - Rutgers Univeristy
II) 3rd Workshop on Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing (CANGS 2013) click here to download the call for participation	Ion Mandoiu - U. of Connecticut Alex Zelikovsky - Georgia State University
III) 2nd Workshop on Computational Advances in Molecular Epidemiology (CAME 2013) click here to download the call for participation	Yury Khudyakov - CDC/CCID/NCHHSTP Ion Mandoiu - U. of Connecticut Alex Zelikovsky - Georgia State University

Please follow this link to register to the Workshop: https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=129

Posters and Highlights

Each poster will be of size 2.5 feet by 3 feet. These posters will be on display throughout the duration of the conference. In addition, every poster will be given 10 minutes time for a presentation before an audience (just like regular papers but with shorter time).

Venue and Hotel Information

ICCABS 2013 will take place in the Crowne Plaza New Orleans-Airport Hotel on June 12-14, 2013

Crowne Plaza New Orleans-Airport Hotel

2829 Williams Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062

Phone:(504) 467-5611

We have a negotiated rate of $109 per night for the conference attendees. Please mention the code: ICCABS13

Click here for online reservations

Things to do in New Orleans:
Check out the website www.neworleansonline.com for up to date festivities in New Orleans.

Weather:

The expected temperature, according to The Weather Channel, in the period from June,12th to the 14th is as shown below:

We wish you a safe trip full of knowledge, enjoyment, and relaxation.

Student Travel Awards

ICCABS 2013 plans to support some number of student travel grants (conditional upon NSF support).In particular, this money can be used for the following items:

Registration fee
Hotel accommodation
Airfare
Food and other expenses

The applicants should submit the following materials to Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (rajasek@engr.uconn.edu) before 06-01-2013 by 5PM EST. Preference will be given to students presenting their works in the conference (including the workshops)

Number and title of a paper or poster that has been accepted (if any) to ICCABS
A brief summary of the research interests of the student together with an explanation of how this conference will help her/his research efforts.
A support letter from the student's supervisor/advisor that indicates that the student is in good academic standing and how the student will benefit from attending this conference.
An estimate on the total expenses and availability of other sources of funding

Applications from female and minority students are strongly encouraged.

Contact Us

General Chair contact information:

S. Rajasekaran
Email: rajasek@engr.uconn.edu
Homepage: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~rajasek/

Program chair contact information:

Vladimir Filkov
Email: filkov@cs.ucdavis.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/filkov.html

Paper submission:	~~April 5, 2013~~
Extended final submission date:	April 12, 2013
Notification of acceptance:	May 20, 2013
Author registration:	May 20, 2013
Camera-ready papers due on:	May 27, 2013