The 9th International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW2011)
July 11-13, 2011. Xi’an , China

Announcement for Papers （ Submission deadline: April 15, 2011 ）

http://ibw2011.fmmu.edu.cn

Sponsored by:

Committee of Tumor Marker, Chinese Anti-Cancer Association
Medical & Health Engineering Division of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Organized by:

The Cell Engineering Research Center , Fourth Military Medical University
The School of Biomedical Engineering , Fourth Military Medical University

Co-organized by:

Medical & Health Engineering Division of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Sponsored by:

National Science Foundation of China
Fourth Military Medical University
Ministry of Education, China .

Workshop Website:

http://ibw2011.fmmu.edu.cn

Welcome Message

The International Bioinformatics workshop (IBW) series aims to promote scientific communication for Chinese researchers on the cutting-edge progress in bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, genomics, and proteomics. As a major annual event in the Chinese bioinformatics community, the workshop series have attracted over 2,000 students and postdoctoral fellows in 8 previous successful meetings, which took place at Fudan University (2003), Tsinghua University (2004), Jilin University (2005), Central South University (2006), Shandong University (2007) and Yunnan University (2008), Soochow University (2009), and Wuhan University (2010), respectively.

IBW2011, organized by the Cell Engineering Research Center and the School of Biomedical Engineering , Fourth Military Medical University , co-organized by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, will be held from July 11th to 13th, 2011, in Xi’an , China . The workshop is sponsored by NSFC, FMMU, and by the Ministry of Education, China . About 20 speakers from both domestic and overseas have agreed to present at the workshop.

Xi’an is one of the most attractive historical cities. Strolling in street of city, one will get the feeling of walking through a big historical museum, in which one can witness the Eighth Wonder in the world- “terra-cotta warriors and horses” of Qin dynasty, the Big and Small Wild Goose Pagodas of Tang dynasty and the city wall of Ming dynasty. We believe that our kind receptions will make this trip a colorful and unforgettable one for you.

Looking forward to meeting you in Xi’an on July 11th -13th, 2011.

Yours faithfully,
Chairman: Zhinan Chen, Ph.D.
Ying Xu, Ph.D

Conference organization

Honorary Chair ：Prof. Daiming Fan,President, Fourth Military Medical University Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

Chair: Prof. Zhinan Chen,Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
The Fourth Military Medical University , China

Prof. Ying Xu,Georgia University , IBW steering committee member

Program committee:

Steering Committee:

Organizing committee:

•  Workshop Scope:

The workshop will cover the top subjects on computational genomics, computational proteomics, computational systems biology and biological data mining. Submissions of summaries describing original work in, but not limited to, the following topics are encouraged.

1. Computational genomics
2. Bio-sequence analysis
3. Comparative genome analysis
4. Biological networks
5. Computational proteomics
6. Computational structural biology
7. Computational systems biology
8. Biological data mining
9. Computational evolutionary biology
10. Algorithmic and combinatorial methods in bioinformatics.
11. Disease genomics and proteomics

II. Call for summaries and speakers

We are now open to accept contributed talks for all areas in bioinformatics including but not limited to the conference topics. Please e-mail us your intention and a summary of paper to be spoken at the conference and submit your self-introduction for review and evaluation. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field independently based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Authors should format their papers (less than 4-pages) and submit requested files to the workshop mailbox . Mailing papers are not welcome.

Important deadlines:

Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2011

Notification of paper acceptance deadline: May 30, 2011

III . Rules for Papers (All papers should be organized as following rules):

(1). All Papers (abstract or full text) must be submitted as an unpublished presentation. They must be written in English with Word format to fit into the A4 layout.

(2). Styles of English text are as the followings:

﹡ Text format: Times New Roman of 11 pt , single spaced.

﹡ Title: Simple and clear, all in capital letter and not bold.

﹡ Author has no title name, the first letter capitalized, aligned on the left ( the first name before surname, example: Li Xiangyang is Xiangyang Li ).

﹡ Organization, city and country are aligned on the left.

﹡ Paper is composed of the followings: Objectives, methods, results, conclusions.

﹡ Please be sure to carefully check your paper for content errors, spelling, names, etc, before submitting. We are not able to proofread for or correct spelling, typographical, grammatical, or scientific errors.

IV. Conference Program

V . Invited Speakers:

1 、 Luonan Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences
     （陳洛南教授，中科院上海生命科學(xué)研究所）
2 、 Runsheng Chen, Institute of Biophysics, CAS
     （陳潤生院士，中科院生物物理研究所 , 中國科學(xué)院院士）
3 、 Yuan Gao, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
     （高原教授，弗吉尼亞州立邦聯(lián)大學(xué)，美國）
4 、 Jingdong Han, CAS-MPG Partner institute for Computational Biology
      （韓敬東研究員 , 中科院遺傳與發(fā)育生物學(xué)研究所 ）
5 、 Bailin Hao, Fudan University and Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS
     （郝柏林院士 , 中科院理論物理研究所，中國科學(xué)院院士）
6 、 Tao Jiang, University of California at Riverside ， USA
     （姜濤教授，美國加州大學(xué)河濱分校）
7 、 Hoong-Chien Lee, National Center University, Taiwan
     （李弘謙教授，國立中央大學(xué)，臺灣）
8 、 Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada
     （李明教授，加拿大滑鐵盧大學(xué)）
9 、 Yixue Li, Shanghai Bioinformatics Center ， CAS
     （李亦學(xué)研究員，中國科學(xué)院上海生命科學(xué)研究院生物信息中心）
10 、 Xiaole Liu, Harvard University and Tongji University
     （ Xiaole Liu 教授，哈佛大學(xué)，同濟大學(xué)）
11 、 Youyong Lv, Peking University School of Medicine
     （呂有勇教授，北京大學(xué)臨床腫瘤學(xué)院）
12 、 Zhensu She, Peking University
     （佘振蘇教授，北京大學(xué)）
13 、 Yu Shyr, Vanderbilt University, USA
     （石瑜教授，范德堡大學(xué)，美國）
14 、 Zhirong Sun, Tsinghua University
     （孫之榮教授 , 清華大學(xué)生物科學(xué)與技術(shù)系 ）
15 、 Haixu Tang, Indiana University, USA
     （唐海旭教授，印第安納大學(xué)，美國）
16 、 Wen Wang, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS
     （王文研究員，中科院昆明動物研究所， 973 首席科學(xué)家 ）
17 、 Liping Wei, Peking University
     （魏麗萍教授，北京大學(xué)生命科學(xué)院 ）
18 、 Stephen Wong, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, USA
19 、 Jinliang Xing, The Four Military Medical University
     （邢金良教授，第四軍醫(yī)大學(xué)細(xì)胞工程研究中心）
20 、 Ying Xu, University of Georgia and Jilin University
     （徐鷹教授，喬治亞大學(xué)，吉林大學(xué)長江學(xué)者特聘教授）
21 、 Weixiong Zhang, Washington University
     （ Weixiong Zhang 教授 , 華盛頓大學(xué)）
22 、 Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University
     （張學(xué)工教授 , 清華大學(xué)生物信息學(xué)主任 ）

VI. Registration

Registration for the workshop is free and open to the public. To register for the workshop, please complete the registration form available online at website: http://ibw2011.fmmu.edu.cn , and send the registration form to mailbox ibw2011@fmmu.edu.cn . All registrations will be confirmed by email.

Important dates:

Registration deadline for DragonStar course: May 15, 2011
Registration deadline for the workshop: June 10, 2011

VII. Conference Accommodation Information:

To facilitate the accommodation and make the participation more convenient, we provide the following optional services including lodging and meals that will be charged. Please identify which service you need when you fill the registration form. The reimbursable receipt could be issued for all related payments.

•  Hotel service: Regular participants need to pay for the hotel fee. The reservation fee of 200RMB is required for each reservation. The conference has arranged two hotels below to choose:

•  Xi’an Jianguo Hotel （★★★★）

Location: No.2, Huzhu Street , Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province , China

Website: http://www.hotelxianjianguo.com

Tel ： 86-29-82598888;

Conference room rate ：

All room rates include 15% service charge.

B. The Fourth Military Medical University Hotel

Location: No.169, Changlexi Street , Xi’an City, Shaanxi 710032, China

Tel ： 86-29-84775888

Conference room rate ：

2. Conference Documents (optional):

150 RMB per copy for 5-day DragonStar course;

200 RMB per copy for 3-day workshop.

Each copy contains the teaching materials required by the course, materials of all invited and contributed talks, the abstracts of all potential accepted papers, a conference programme, a workshop badge, and so on.

3. Meal Tickets (optional):

450 RMB per set for DragonStar course (consists of tickets for five-day meals from Jul.6-10)

600 RMB per set (consists of tickets for four buffet meals and one banquet from July 11 to 13).

Please note that the meal set is nonseparable.

VII. Conference Language: English/Chinese

IX. Contact information:

Questions or comments on the conference:
Contact Person: Professor Lu
Tel: 86-29-84774837, 13572116125
Email: luhb@fmmu.edu.cn
IBW2011@fmmu.edu.cn

Questions or comments on paper submission:
Contact Person:Miss Cheng
Tel: 86-29-84772286
Email:apctbm2009@163.com

Questions or comments on registration:
Contact Person: Teacher Wang
Tel: 029-84774840-802,
Email: IBW2011@fmmu.edu.cn
Fax: 86-29-84774837

Address: The Cell Engineering Research Center/School of Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Military Medical University ,
169 Changlexi Rd , Xi’an , Shaanxi 710032, China .

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