*Preliminary* * * *_C a l l f o r P a p e r s_* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development *BIRD'08* www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/> * *Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 *Scope of the conference:* The primary focus of BIRD '08 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 * System Biology and Modelling *Paper Submission Details:* * Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. * The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings of BIRD'08. * Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNBI-format. * Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics" (LNBI <http: www.springer.de="" comp="" lncs="" authors.html="">) by Springer Verlag. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to submit their contribution electronically before January 31, 2008. Paper submission site will be online in December. *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, University of Linz, Austria Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amarnath Gupta,* *SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Chris Sander, MSKCC - Computational Biology Center, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *General Co-Chairs: * Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Organizing Chair:* Gabriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria *Program Committee Co-Chairs:* Josef K?ng, University of Linz, Austria Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, Austria *Program Committee:* Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Santosh Atanur, C-DAC, India Brian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Khalid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Rosana Cheh?n, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bin Cui, Peking University, China Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA Pierre D?nnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway Domenec Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ela Hunt, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Research Group Modeling, Germany Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Spain Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefano Lise, University College London, UK Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Universit? d'Artois, France Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Burkhard Morgenstern, University of G?ttingen, Germany Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA Norbert M?ller, University of Linz, Austria Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Jose M. Pe?a, Link?ping University , Sweden Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universit?t, Germany David Rocke, University of California, USA Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organizaci?n y Evoluci?n del Genoma, Uruguay Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Francisca S?nchez Jim?nez, University of M?laga, Spain Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland Angel Sevilla Camins, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical University, Microsoft Russia, Russia Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal Peter Vojt??, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Australia David Wild, University of Warwick, UK Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia Wolfram W??, Universit of Linz, Austria Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA Xiaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway Moti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *Important Dates:* * Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) * * *_Ca l l f o r W o r k s h o p P r o p o s a l s_* in conjunction with *BIRD'08* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development** *_www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/>_* * *Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 The BIRD'08 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on July 7-9 in parallel to the main technical program of the BIRD conference. The main goal of the BIRD'08 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas about specific (both theoretical and applicative) topics in the general area of Bioinformatics. Workshops should be organized to facilitate informal discussion and active engagement among attendees. Members from all areas of the Bioinformatics community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new emerging topics or specific relevant aspects of broader topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and are permitted to join the main BIRD conference. Requirements for Submissions To propose a workshop in BIRD'08, you will submit a complete workshop proposal containing the following information: * The title of the workshop; * A 1 page (max.) description of the technical issues that the workshop will address; * The statements: o How is the workshop relevant to, and complementary with, the main conference? o Why is the workshop of particular significance at this time? * The names, affiliations, postal address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of the workshop organizers (It is expected that organizers will be recognized experts in the related fields, and the organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions); * A list of potential program committee members, including their affiliations; * The expected number of attendees (estimating minimum and maximum values); * Description of paper review process and acceptance standards; * A draft workshop call for papers; * The expected date and duration of the workshop; All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org <mailto:office at="" birdconf.org="">), in plain ASCII text, no later than December 1, 2007 Proposers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than December 15, 2007 The selection of the workshops to be included in the final BIRD program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Responsibilities of BIRD and of Workshop Organizers For all accepted proposals, BIRD will be responsible for: * Providing conference software for paper upload and review process (obligatory) * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop; * Providing electronic registration system * Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time; * Publication of the papers in the proceedings of BIRD'08. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: * Setting up a web site for the workshop; * Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for participation/papers; * Collecting and evaluating submissions using the BIRD conference software (mandatory), notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers are recommended to adopt the following deadlines for submissions and notifications of acceptance. o Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 o Noification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 o Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 * Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants get registered to the workshop by registering to BIRD'08. * Accepted workshops are entitled to receive a small budget which is depending on the number of accepted and registered papers BIRD reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop. Workshop Chair: Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria (rrwagner at faw.uni-linz.ac.at <mailto:rrwagner at="" faw.uni-="" linz.ac.at="">) Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia Important Dates * Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2007 * Workshop selection notification: December 15, 2007 * Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) *_C a l l f o r P o s t e r s_* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development *BIRD'08* www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/> Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 *Scope of the conference:* The primary focus of BIRD '08 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 * System Biology and Modelling *Poster Submission Details:* Posters should describe original, interesting, and solid scientific content that is relevant to bioinformatics and computational biology. Authors are invited to submit condensed descriptions of ongoing work in English which will be displayed during the meeting. Poster abstracts should be submitted by March 15, 2008, using the online poster submission form. They will be reviewed to ensure that the content is appropriate. We will attempt to accept as many posters as possible, subject to space restrictions. Please note the following: - Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page. - All abstracts must be submitted by March 15, 2008. All questions related to the BIRD '08 poster session should be directed to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org <mailto:office at="" birdconf.org="">) Short papers (max. 4 pages) of all accepted posters will be published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). The presenting author of each accepted poster must register for the conference prior to May 15, 2008, in order for the poster to be included in the program. Presenting authors are expected to attend the poster session. *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, University of Linz, Austria Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amarnath Gupta,* *SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Chris Sander, MSKCC - Computational Biology Center, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *General Co-Chairs: * Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Organizing Chair:* Gabriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria *Poster Session Co-Chairs:* Djork-Arn? Clevert, Signature Diagnostics, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Program Committee:* Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Santosh Atanur, C-DAC, India Brian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Khalid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Rosana Cheh?n, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bin Cui, Peking University, China Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA Pierre D?nnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway Domenec Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ela Hunt, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Research Group Modeling, Germany Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Spain Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefano Lise, University College London, UK Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Universit? d'Artois, France Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Burkhard Morgenstern, University of G?ttingen, Germany Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA Norbert M?ller, University of Linz, Austria Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Jose M. Pe?a, Link?ping University , Sweden Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universit?t, Germany David Rocke, University of California, USA Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organizaci?n y Evoluci?n del Genoma, Uruguay Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Francisca S?nchez Jim?nez, University of M?laga, Spain Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland Angel Sevilla Camins, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical University, Microsoft Russia, Russia Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal Peter Vojt??, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Australia David Wild, University of Warwick, UK Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia Wolfram W??, Universit of Linz, Austria Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA Xiaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway Moti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *Important Dates:* * Submission of Poster descriptions: March 15, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies of short papers: May 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) -- 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

*Preliminary* * * *_C a l l f o r P a p e r s_* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development *BIRD'08* www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/> * *Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 *Scope of the conference:* The primary focus of BIRD '08 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 * System Biology and Modelling *Paper Submission Details:* * Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. * The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings of BIRD'08. * Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNBI-format. * Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics" (LNBI <http: www.springer.de="" comp="" lncs="" authors.html="">) by Springer Verlag. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to submit their contribution electronically before January 31, 2008. Paper submission site: https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/bird/confdriver/ *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, University of Linz, Austria Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amarnath Gupta,* *SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Chris Sander, MSKCC - Computational Biology Center, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *General Co-Chairs: * Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Organizing Chair:* Gabriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria *Program Committee Co-Chairs:* Josef K?ng, University of Linz, Austria Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, Austria *Program Committee:* Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Santosh Atanur, C-DAC, India Brian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Khalid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Rosana Cheh?n, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bin Cui, Peking University, China Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA Pierre D?nnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway Domenec Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ela Hunt, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Research Group Modeling, Germany Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Spain Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefano Lise, University College London, UK Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Universit? d'Artois, France Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Burkhard Morgenstern, University of G?ttingen, Germany Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA Norbert M?ller, University of Linz, Austria Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Jose M. Pe?a, Link?ping University , Sweden Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universit?t, Germany David Rocke, University of California, USA Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organizaci?n y Evoluci?n del Genoma, Uruguay Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Francisca S?nchez Jim?nez, University of M?laga, Spain Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland Angel Sevilla Camins, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical University, Microsoft Russia, Russia Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal Peter Vojt??, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Australia David Wild, University of Warwick, UK Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia Wolfram W??, Universit of Linz, Austria Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA Xiaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway Moti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *Important Dates:* * Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) * * *_C a l l f o r P o s t e r s_* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development *BIRD'08* www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/> Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 *Scope of the conference:* The primary focus of BIRD '08 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 * System Biology and Modelling *Poster Submission Details:* Posters should describe original, interesting, and solid scientific content that is relevant to bioinformatics and computational biology. Authors are invited to submit condensed descriptions of ongoing work in English which will be displayed during the meeting. Poster abstracts should be submitted by March 15, 2008, using the online poster submission form (https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/bird/confdriver/). They will be reviewed to ensure that the content is appropriate. We will attempt to accept as many posters as possible, subject to space restrictions. Please note the following: - Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page. - All abstracts must be submitted by March 15, 2008. All questions related to the BIRD '08 poster session should be directed to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org <mailto:office at="" birdconf.org="">) Short papers (max. 4 pages) of all accepted posters will be published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). The presenting author of each accepted poster must register for the conference prior to May 15, 2008, in order for the poster to be included in the program. Presenting authors are expected to attend the poster session. *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, University of Linz, Austria Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amarnath Gupta,* *SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Chris Sander, MSKCC - Computational Biology Center, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *General Co-Chairs: * Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Organizing Chair:* Gabriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria *Poster Session Co-Chairs:* Djork-Arn? Clevert, Signature Diagnostics, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Program Committee:* Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Santosh Atanur, C-DAC, India Brian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Khalid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Rosana Cheh?n, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bin Cui, Peking University, China Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA Pierre D?nnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway Domenec Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ela Hunt, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Research Group Modeling, Germany Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Spain Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefano Lise, University College London, UK Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Universit? d'Artois, France Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Burkhard Morgenstern, University of G?ttingen, Germany Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA Norbert M?ller, University of Linz, Austria Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Jose M. Pe?a, Link?ping University , Sweden Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universit?t, Germany David Rocke, University of California, USA Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organizaci?n y Evoluci?n del Genoma, Uruguay Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Francisca S?nchez Jim?nez, University of M?laga, Spain Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland Angel Sevilla Camins, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical University, Microsoft Russia, Russia Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal Peter Vojt??, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Australia David Wild, University of Warwick, UK Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia Wolfram W??, Universit of Linz, Austria Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA Xiaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway Moti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *Important Dates:* * Submission of Poster descriptions: March 15, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies of short papers: May 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) *_Ca l l f o r W o r k s h o p P r o p o s a l s_* in conjunction with *BIRD'08* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development** *_www.birdconf.org <http: www.birdconf.org=""/>_* * *Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 The BIRD'08 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on July 7-9 in parallel to the main technical program of the BIRD conference. The main goal of the BIRD'08 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas about specific (both theoretical and applicative) topics in the general area of Bioinformatics. Workshops should be organized to facilitate informal discussion and active engagement among attendees. Members from all areas of the Bioinformatics community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new emerging topics or specific relevant aspects of broader topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and are permitted to join the main BIRD conference. Requirements for Submissions To propose a workshop in BIRD'08, you will submit a complete workshop proposal containing the following information: * The title of the workshop; * A 1 page (max.) description of the technical issues that the workshop will address; * The statements: o How is the workshop relevant to, and complementary with, the main conference? o Why is the workshop of particular significance at this time? * The names, affiliations, postal address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of the workshop organizers (It is expected that organizers will be recognized experts in the related fields, and the organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions); * A list of potential program committee members, including their affiliations; * The expected number of attendees (estimating minimum and maximum values); * Description of paper review process and acceptance standards; * A draft workshop call for papers; * The expected date and duration of the workshop; All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org <mailto:office at="" birdconf.org="">), in plain ASCII text, no later than December 1, 2007 Proposers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than December 15, 2007 The selection of the workshops to be included in the final BIRD program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Responsibilities of BIRD and of Workshop Organizers For all accepted proposals, BIRD will be responsible for: * Providing conference software for paper upload and review process (obligatory) * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop; * Providing electronic registration system * Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time; * Publication of the papers in the proceedings of BIRD'08. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: * Setting up a web site for the workshop; * Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for participation/papers; * Collecting and evaluating submissions using the BIRD conference software (mandatory), notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers are recommended to adopt the following deadlines for submissions and notifications of acceptance. o Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 o Noification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 o Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 * Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants get registered to the workshop by registering to BIRD'08. * Accepted workshops are entitled to receive a small budget which is depending on the number of accepted and registered papers BIRD reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop. Workshop Chair: Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria (rrwagner at faw.uni-linz.ac.at <mailto:rrwagner at="" faw.uni-="" linz.ac.at="">) Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia Important Dates * Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2007 * Workshop selection notification: December 15, 2007 * Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office at birdconf.org) -- 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