<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On behalf of the organizers of the German Conference on Bioinformatics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yves Moreau</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">KU Leuven</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Call for submissions<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">German Conference on Bioinformatics 2015 (GCB'15)<br class="">=================================================<br class=""><br class="">Please distribute this call to interested colleagues,<br class="">and please excuse us if you receive multiple copies<br class="">of this call.<br class=""><br class="">GCB 2015 invites the submission of papers on all aspects of<br class="">bioinformatics.<br class=""><br class="">The conference language is English.<br class="">Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:<br class="">* Methods for genomics and metagenomics<br class="">* Methods for transcriptomics and metatranscriptomics<br class="">* Methods for metabolomics<br class="">* Poly-omics analyses<br class="">* Personalized medicine<br class="">* Network and pathway analysis<br class="">* Bioimage informatics<br class="">* Structural modeling<br class="">* Visualization of large biological datasets<br class="">* Workflow management for big data<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">GCB invites contributions of the following types, with detailed<br class="">information below:<br class="">* Workshops and tutorials (31.05.2015)<br class="">* Proceedings papers (30.06.2015), published at PeerJ PrePrints<br class="">* Highlight abstracts (30.06.2015)<br class="">* Junior research group presentations (30.06.2015), new!<br class="">* Poster abstracts (31.07.2015)<br class=""><br class="">See also <a href="http://www.gcb2015.de" class="">http://www.gcb2015.de</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Call for Workshops and Tutorials by May 31, 2015<br class="">================================================<br class=""><br class="">A whole day of GCB (Sunday, September 27, 2015) is devoted to tutorials<br class="">and workshops on current hot topics of bioinformatics.<br class="">This is an excellent opportunity for new PhD students<br class="">(or more experienced scientists entering a new research area)<br class="">to get up to speed with new methods, techniques and tools.<br class=""><br class="">While tutorials provide an in-depth introduction to a particular method,<br class="">technique or tool (e.g., a collection of R/BioConductor packages, or<br class="">multiple testing in bioinformatics), workshops should provide a broad<br class="">overview of a current hot topic, where the workshop organizers invite<br class="">or call for contributions from experts in the field.<br class=""><br class="">Both workshop and tutorials can be half-day (3 hrs, morning or<br class="">afternoon), or full-day (2x 3hrs).<br class="">Please clearly indicate the duration in the proposal.<br class=""><br class="">Prospective workshop or tutorial organizers are encouraged to contact<br class="">the GCB program chairs and submit a workshop proposal until 31.05.2015.<br class="">Please submit your proposal electronically as a pdf file to<br class="">tutorial-@-gcb2015-dot-de with the subject line "GCB workshop proposal:<br class="">yourworkshoptitle".<br class=""><br class="">Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop,<br class="">inviting and selecting the contributions and guaranteeing a high quality<br class="">worthy of the prestige and range of the conference.<br class="">Workshop papers will not be published in the GCB conference proceedings,<br class="">but may be published in other formats chosen by the workshop organizers.<br class=""><br class="">Both tutorial and workshop submissions must include<br class="">* name and affiliations of the organizers,<br class="">* a one-page description of the topic and its relevance and value to the<br class="">GCB community,<br class="">* a brief description of the submitters' qualification/experience with<br class="">the topic.<br class=""><br class="">Workshop submission must further include<br class="">* a draft time schedule for the workshop (CFP, deadlines, etc.),<br class="">* a list of potential members of the workshop's program committee,<br class="">* an estimation of the number of attendees,<br class="">* a draft list of potential authors / presenters.<br class=""><br class="">Tutorial submissions must include<br class="">* proof of the submitters' pedagogical qualifications<br class=""><br class="">Important: Workshop organizers and speakers must pay their expenses,<br class="">including GCB registration, to participate in the meeting.<br class="">The GCB organizers will help in the administrative aspects of assigning<br class="">the rooms, announcements and adding the detailed schedule to the<br class="">conference program.<br class="">Note that the GCB cannot financially support the speakers or the<br class="">workshop organizers.<br class="">(Exceptions due to unusual circumstances can be discussed with the<br class="">program chairs.)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Call for Proceedings Papers (Extended Abstracts) by June 30, 2015<br class="">=================================================================<br class=""><br class="">Proceedings papers are like regular computer science conference papers.<br class="">These submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee<br class="">and judged by quality, originality and relevance.<br class=""><br class="">Accepted papers will be published as a special collection<br class="">at PeerJ PrePrints with a unique "GCB 2015" label.<br class="">Authors of accepted papers will have the additional option to submit<br class="">them (or an extended version) to the regular PeerJ journal (either<br class="">PeerJ Computer Science, or PeerJ the biology journal,<br class="">depending on which journal is more appropriate) immediately or later,<br class="">together with the conference reviews to facilitate speedier review at<br class="">the journal.<br class="">Accepted papers which are published at PeerJ will also appear in the<br class="">"GCB 2015" Collection (a virtual collection of all the "GCB 2015" output<br class="">which is published at PeerJ).<br class="">Of course, authors may alternatively submit their work to any other<br class="">journal of their choice that allows existing preprints.<br class=""><br class="">Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, and at least one<br class="">author of each accepted paper must register before the early<br class="">registration deadline.<br class=""><br class="">Proceedings papers must be submitted via EasyChair and should be 8-10<br class="">pages long using the provided template (see the submissions page).<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Call for Highlight Abstracts by June 30, 2015<br class="">=============================================<br class=""><br class="">Highlight abstracts should refer to one or two of the authors' recent<br class="">papers that report on work of high importance and were published during<br class="">the present or past year.<br class="">Typical topics might include biological findings with bioinformatics<br class="">methods, new computational methods or new software tools.<br class="">The general topics of interest correspond to those for proceedings papers.<br class=""><br class="">The abstracts should summarize the findings of the referenced paper(s),<br class="">explain their importance and mention which areas of the paper(s) the<br class="">talk will focus on, as opposed to presenting the whole paper(s).<br class="">Highlight abstract submissions will be reviewed by the program committee<br class="">and judged by the importance and novelty of the findings and by<br class="">relevance to the conference audience.<br class=""><br class="">Accepted highlight abstracts will collected into one document "Highlight<br class="">Abstracts of GCB 2015" that will be published at PeerJ Preprints in the<br class="">"GCB 2015" Collection. Accepted highlight abstracts must be presented<br class="">at the conference, and at least one author of each accepted abstract<br class="">must register before the early registration deadline.<br class=""><br class="">Highlight abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair, should be at most 4<br class="">pages long and use the provided abstract template.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Call for Junior Research Group Presentations (New!) by June 30, 2015<br class="">====================================================================<br class=""><br class="">This new track calls for abstracts from junior group leaders<br class="">(definition: have their own (small) group, do not have a permanent<br class="">position) to present their area of research and to highlight recent<br class="">findings from their group.<br class=""><br class="">These abstracts should be similar to highlight abstracts,<br class="">but may reference more of the group's papers, giving a good and complete<br class="">picture of the group's research focus as a whole.<br class=""><br class="">Accepted highlight abstracts will collected into one document "Junior<br class="">Research Group Presentations of GCB 2015" that will be published at<br class="">PeerJ Preprints in the "GCB 2015" Collection. Accepted junior research<br class="">group presentations must be given at the conference, and the group<br class="">leader must register before the early registration deadline.<br class=""><br class="">Junior research group abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair,<br class="">should be at most 4 pages long and use the provided abstract template.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Call for Posters by July 31, 2015<br class="">=================================<br class=""><br class="">Posters should present recent scientific work in any area of bioinformatics.<br class=""><br class="">Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee for<br class="">clarity and novelty.<br class="">Accepted poster abstracts will collected into one document "Poster<br class="">Abstracts of GCB 2015"<br class="">that will be published at PeerJ Preprints in the "GCB 2015" Collection.<br class=""><br class="">Accepted posters must be brought to and presented at the conference.<br class="">The designated poster presenter must register before the early<br class="">registration deadline and indicate whether she or he wants to give a<br class="">flash presentation (1 slide, 1 minute).<br class=""><br class="">Poster abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair,<br class="">can be at most a single page long (including references) and use the<br class="">provided abstract template.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Detailed Information<br class="">====================<br class=""><br class="">Please visit <a href="http://www.gcb2015.de" class="">http://www.gcb2015.de</a> for details and submission information.<br class="">At this time, LaTeX templates for submissions are online, but EasyChair<br class="">submission is not yet open.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Axel Mosig<br class="">Sven Rahmann<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">The GCB 2015 organizers<br class=""><a href="mailto:contact@gcb2015.de" class="">contact@gcb2015.de</a></div></body></html>