------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ WCB 2014 10th Workshop on Constraint-Based Methods for Bioinformatics http://cp2014.a4cp.org/workshops/bioinfo14 Co-located with 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming September 8 2014, Lyon, France ------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Description --------------------- During the last years, Biology has become a source of challenging problems for the entire field of Computer Science in general, and for the areas of computational logic and constraint programming in particular. Successful approaches to these problems are likely to have significant applications in several fields of research, such as medicine, agriculture, industry, etc. Several successful applications of the Logic and Constraint Programming paradigms in Bioinformatics have been carried out in the last years, in the area of phylogenetic tree reconstruction, in haplotype inference, in proteins structure prediction, in RNA secondary structure prediction, and in system biology, just to cite a few. The workshop aims at exchanging ideas between researchers and collecting, if possible, new problems to be faced in the next future by our community. Workshop Format --------------- WCB'14 is the 10-th of a series of consecutive Workshops on Constraint-Based Methods for Bioinformatics. Previous editions of WCB were co-located with various important international conferences, as reported below: - WCB'05: co-located with ICLP-CP 2005 in Sitges - WCB'06: co-located with CP 2006 in Nantes - WCB'07: co-located with ICLP 2007 in Porto - WCB'08: co-located with CPAIOR 2008 in Paris - WCB'09: co-located with CP 2009 in Lisbon - WCB'10: co-located with FLOC 2010 in Edinburgh - WCB'11: co-located with CP 2011 in Perugia - WCB'12: co-located with ICLP 2012 in Budapest - WCB'13: co-located with CP 2013 in Uppsala Details about last-year WCB'13 can be found at http://cp2013.a4cp.org/workshops/wcb Paper Submission ---------------- The topic of interest are all those concerning bioinformatics and constraints and related (SAT/ASP/Logic Programming/ILP) techniques, such as: - RNA prediction and motif search - protein structure and functional prediction - genetic linkage analysis and haplotype inference - pedigree reconstruction and diagnosis - genomic selection design - gene regulatory network inference and analysis - biochemical network simulation and visualization - solvers for problems in biology - metabolic pathway analysis - DNA sequence assembly - contig scaffolding - multiple sequence alignment - machine learning and big data - ontologies - constraint databases - logical interfaces to relational databases - web services - databases integration and federation - RDF graphs and tools Submitted papers can be: - Full papers describing new research results - Extended Abstracts concerning original (unpublished) results. - Abstracts describing ongoing work. - System descriptions (with demos at the workshop). - Summaries of already accepted or recently published papers/results. - Well-motivated proposals of bioinformatics problems for constraint based methods. Submitted papers should be 3-15 pages long in the LNCS format. Submissions are managed through EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcb14 Important dates --------------- - Paper Submission Dealine June 30 - Notification to Authors July 28 - Final Version August 18 - Workshop Date September 8 Invited Speaker --------------- - Graham Kemp, Chalmers University, Sweden Workshop Organizers ------------------- - Nicos Angelopoulos, Imperial College, London, UK - Simon de Givry, MIAT INRA, Toulouse, France Program Committee ----------------- - Pedro Barahona, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany - Mats Carlsson, SICS AB, Uppsala, Sweden - Agostino Dovier, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy - Francois Fages, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France - Arun Konagurthu, Monash University, Australia - David Lesaint, University of Angers, France - Ines Lynce, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal - Nigel Martin, Birkbeck College, UK - Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA - Alessandro Dal Palu, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy - Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA - Sylvain Soliman, INRIA France - Sebastian Will, University Leipzig, Germany - Matthias Zytnicki, MIAT INRA, Toulouse, France