POSTED 20 APRIL 2007

International Conference on Bioinformatics Hong Kong August 27-30, 2007
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - InCoB 2007

*APBioNet's Sixth International Conference on Bioinformatics
will be held in Hong Kong from 27th to 30th August 2007, with
satellite venues in Hanoi, Vietnam for education and outreach
and Nansha, PR China for hands-on training.

See http://www.apbionet.org/incob07/ for details

Key Highlights of the International Conference on Bioinformatics
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* Biology-Focus with top speakers such as
   - Minoru Kanehisa,
   - Terry Speed
   - Roderic Guigo
   - David Wishart and
   - Official Presidential nominee from ISCB.

* High Quality  -  Top papers will be published in special
   conference supplement of BMC Bioinformatics (Impact Factor 4.96).
   InCoB2006 Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics
   (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7?issue=S5)
    has received 15,736 hits over the past 4 months
    (18/12/2006-18/04/2007)!

* Affordable - Hong Kong offers low cost accommodation, with
   reasonably priced airfares, and limited visa requirements,
   making it an excellent location for this international meeting.

* All Papers and Posters will have a chance to be published in a peer
   reviewed open access international journal - Biomolecular Frontiers

* Large international attendance, regularly about 300 during Bangkok
   2002, Penang 2003 to 500 in Busan 2005 and 800 in Delhi 2006.
   Exhibition booths are also available for commercial exhibitors
   or societies, or institutional recruitment.

* Good opportunity for posters, tutorials and special interest
   group meetings

* Beautiful scenic venue at ClearWater Bay, Hong Kong University
   of Science and Technology

*IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of Full Papers: 15 May 2007
* Submission of poster abstracts:    31 May  2007
* Submission of tutorial and SIG proposals: 31 May 2007

Notification of acceptance  30 June 2007
Early bird Registration: 31 July 2007

*Conference co-chairs
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie, Australia and NUS, Singapore)
Hannah Xue (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Tan Tin Wee (NUS, Singapore)

*International Advisory Committee
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie, Australia and NUS, Singapore) (Chairperson)
Michael Gribskov (Purdue, USA)
Hannah Hong Xue (HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR, PR China)
Tan Tin Wee (NUS, Singapore)
Rohan Teasdale (University of Queensland, Australia)
B Jayaram (IIT Delhi, India)
H A Nagarajaram (CDFD, India)
Jong Bhak (KOBIC, South Korea)
Haruki Nakamura (PDBj, Osaka University, Japan)
Akihiko Konagaya, (LSGrid Symposium, RIKEN GSC, Japan)
Jingchu Luo (CBI, Peking University, PR China)
Martti Tammi (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden/NUS)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan)
Rahmah Mohammad (UKM, Malaysia)
Allen Rodrigo (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)
Kanchana Kanchanasut (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)

*****SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
* High-quality original papers on any topic related to
   Bioinformatics, focussing on:

     * Sequence analysis
     * Genome analysis
     * Transcriptome analysis
     * Structural bioinformatics
     * Evolution and phygenetics
     * Computational proteomics
     * Text mining
     * Ontologies and controlled vocabularies
     * Networks, pathways and systems biology
     * Genetic and population analysis
     * Databases and data mining
     * Other emerging areas

Papers will be judged on originality, accuracy, soundness, clarity and
significance.
Publication of a paper is contingent on one of the
authors registering and making a presentation at the conference.

If selected for publication in the BMC Bioinformatics Supplement,
the usual BMC article processing charges will be payable to APBioNet
at a discounted rate.

*Posters highlighting either research in progress or recent published work.
*Tutorials providing an educational experience.
*SIG meetings addressing niche areas in Bioinformatics

*****SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Detailed gudelines provided on:
http://incob.apbionet.org/incob07/cfp.shtml

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See you in Hong Kong!

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Shoba Ranganathan,  Ph.D.                   Professor
Dept. of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Research
Institute, Building F7B Rm 233
Macquarie University             Tel: +61-2-9850 6262
Sydney, NSW 2109                 Fax: +61-2-9850 8313
Australia                  email: shoba@els.mq.edu.au

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry,
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
Natl. Univ. of Singapore  email: shoba@bic.nus.edu.sg