*CALL FOR PAPERS* * * *1st International Conference* *on* * * *Bioinformatics Research and Development* * B I R D ?07*** *http://www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/>* * * *Berlin**, Germany*** *March 12-14, 2007* *Scope of the conference:* * * The primary focus of BIRD '07 is to provide researchers and users in the field of bioinformatics a forum in which to interact about new research directions, developments, and software/web services. It encompasses the methods of solving biological, medical, or chemical problems by computer science, machine learning, or information processing tools. The conceptual level of the methods range from theoretical approaches through the design of algorithms, models, and information processing systems through to the development of software packages and web services. The program committee seeks contributions, which topics include, but are not limited to: * * * Algebraic Biology * Databases & Data Integration * Drug Design * Ontologies & Textmining * Evolution and Phylogenetics * Genomics * Gene and Splice Site Recognition * Machine Learning and Data Analysis * Gene Expression/Regulation & Microarrays * MicroRNA and RNAi * Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment Support * Molecular Dynamics * Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology * Phylogenetics & Molecular Evolution * Protein & RNA Structure and Function * Proteomics * Sequence Analysis & Alignment * SNPs and Haplotyping * Systems Biology and Modelling * * *General Chair:* Roland Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria *Program Chair:* Sepp Hochreiter, University of Linz, Austria * * *Program Committee (Steering):* Amos Bairoch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, USA Philip E. Bourne, UCSD, USA Richard Durbin, Sanger Institute, UK Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany David Gilbert, University of Glasgow, UK Amarnath Gupta, SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, USA Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Erik Sonnhammer, Karolinska Institute, Sweden and about 200 other PC-members * * *Paper Submission Details: *Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Paper registration and electronic submission will start in August 2006. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. *Important Dates:* * Submission of Full Papers: September 8, 2006 * Noification of Acceptance: November 20, 2006 * Camera-ready Copies of papers: December 20, 2006 For further inquiries, please contact: Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria, or the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org <mailto:office at="" birdconf.org="">) All accepted conference papers will be published in the proceedings of BIRD?07. -- Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Director of the Institute of Applied Knowledgeprocessing (FAW) Director of the Institute "integriert studieren" Tel.: +43 676 84673210 Fax: +43 732 24689308 rrwagner at faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec1: Monika Neubauer Tel.: +43 676 84673212 Fax.:+43 732 2468 9308 mneubauer at faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec2: Barbara Arrer Tel: +43 732 2468 9232 Fax:+43 732 2468 9322 barbara.arrer at jku.ta http://www.faw.uni-linz.ac.at http://www.integriert-studieren.jku.at http://www.dexa.org http://www.icchp.org