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We are soliciting high-quality original research papers in any aspect of computational biology, including the following areas:
| Area | Area Chairs |
| Sequence Analysis and Alignment | Des Higgins Serafim Batzoglu |
| Evolution and Phylogeny | Tandy Warnow Junhyong Kim |
| Comparative Genomics | Roderic Guigo David Sankoff |
| Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics | Olga Troyanskaya Zhaolei Zhang |
| Protein Structure & function | Nir Ben-Tal Ora Schueler-Furman |
| Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks | Joel Bader Ed Marcotte |
| Databases and Ontologies | Robert Stevens Helen Parkinson |
| Text Mining | Hagit Shatkay Mark Craven |
| Bioinformatics of Disease | Igor Jurisica Anna Tramontano |
| Other | Rick Lathrop Janice Glasgow |
New techniques are especially encouraged. Existing relevant computational techniques include, but are not limited to: machine learning; data mining; text analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases; data modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph algorithms; linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data visualization; parallel computation; data integration; modelling and simulation.
Publication of the proceedings as an online part of the Bioinformatics journal will result in fully citable articles, indexed by Medline and ISI. See the conference proceedings of ISMB 2006 or ISMB/ECCB 2007 for an example of online-only publication by Oxford University Press.
Presenters of accepted papers will be given a 20-minute time slot (plus 5 minutes for questions) in the conference schedule to provide a summary and update to their work.
Papers can be submitted in either a template-free format or in the format following the template for author submission to the OUP journal bioinformatics. If the OUP template is used the paper length must not exceed nine pages. If the template-free format is used the length of the paper must not exceed 12 pages (single space, 12 point font), including abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. In either case, the paper must contain an abstract whose length does not exceed 250 words.
After acceptance papers will have to be formatted according to the layout style required by the OUP bioinformatics journal and will be limited to 9 pages. Formatting requirements can be found at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/bioinformatics/for_authors/submission_online.html
If absolutely necessary, submissions can be accompanied by supplementary material, similar to submissions to scientific journals. The supplementary material should be collected in separate files that are appropriately marked. However, we advise against adding supplementary material, in general. Supplementary material will be published on the proceedings site alongside the online version of the conference paper. We do not support supplementary material presented at any other than the publisher's site. Additionally, OUP does not edit or typeset supplementary data - it is uploaded online exactly as it is received, so authors must ensure its accuracy before submitting.
Papers should be submitted in their final form since the evaluation procedure does not allow for additional rounds of refinement / modification in response to referee criticisms. Poor quality submissions or insufficiently prepared papers are very often rejected.
PAPERS NOT CONFORMING TO THESE GUIDELINES WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW.
Papers will be accepted electronically at the submission site in PDF format only.
Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work. At the time the paper is submitted to ISMB 2008, and for the entire review period, the paper should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal.
The deadline for ISMB 2008 paper submissions is Wednesday, January 16, 2008. (You have until 11.59 p.m. in the time zone of your choice. This means that the submission server will be closed at noon, 11:59 am GMT (UTC+0), January 17, 2008).
Notification of acceptance will be provided by e-mail no later than Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Final, corrected versions of accepted papers, which must conform to the formatting guidelines available when the paper is accepted, are due no later than March 30, 2008. Details of the submission process and format of accepted papers will be provided at the time of paper acceptance. Papers not accepted may be resubmitted as a "regular conference poster" until March 26, 2008 or as a "late conference poster" until May 21, 2008. Poster information is available here.
For questions concerning the scientific content of submissions, please contact papers08@ismbconf.org.