[TYPES/announce] CMSB 2020: Final Call for Contributions [deadline further postponed and going online]

Sun Apr 26 11:38:30 EDT 2020

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
(Papers, tools, tutorials, posters, presentations)

CMSB 2020: 
The 18th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology

https://cmsb2020.uni-saarland.de <https://cmsb2020.uni-saarland.de/> 

23rd-25th September 2020, University of Konstanz (Germany)

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Update on organisational changes due to coronavirus situation

We are considering to move CMSB2020 either partially or completely online. 
All submission deadlines are shifted ahead.
Please consult the conference webpage for the latest updates. 

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About

CMSB 2020 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool
papers, on the analysis of biological systems, networks, data, and
corresponding application domains. The conference brings together computer
scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested
in a system-level understanding of biological processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- formalisms for modelling biological processes
- models and their biological applications
- frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation
of biological systems
- methods for synthetic biology and bio-molecular computing
- machine learning, model inference from experimental data
- model integration from biological databases
- multi-scale modelling and analysis methods
- collective behaviour
- high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations

In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential
applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of
existing frameworks to new models or that may provide new insights to existing
models.

Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories:
1) Regular papers
2) Tool papers
3) Posters
4) Tutorials
5) Presentations of already published papers

The proceedings of the two first categories of papers of CMSB 2020 will
be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
/ Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI).

Publication of extended versions of a selection of the papers in a special
issue of a journal is under consideration.

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Invited Speakers

Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute and the University of Konstanz, Germany

Grégory Batt, Inria and Institute Pasteur, France

Domitilla Del Vecchio, MIT, USA

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Call for Submissions: 

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1) Call for regular papers:

Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously
published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must
be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be
submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for
submissions is 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each
submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers.
The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be
intelligible without them.

Important Dates
- Regular Paper Abstract presubmission: May 04, 2020
- Regular Paper submission: May 14, 2020
- Regular Paper notification: June 15, 2020
- Regular Paper Camera-ready: June 30, 2020
- Conference: September 23-25, 2020

Replicability and reproducibility:
A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on.
In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of
accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that
the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work.

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2) Call for tool papers:

Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of
biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published
previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and
must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF
files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages. Appendices will
not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on
methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results.
Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of
submission for evaluation by the committee. Each submission must be accompanied by a supplementary material (in the form of appendix) illustrating the usage of the tool (e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable, how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation.

Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a
showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk.

Important Dates
- Tool Paper Abstract presubmission: May 04, 2020
- Tool Paper submission: May 14, 2020
- Tool Paper notification: June 30, 2020
- Tool Paper Camera-ready: July 15, 2020

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3) Call for posters:

CMSB 2020 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modelling and
analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding
application domains.

We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists!

Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages.

Important Dates
- Poster abstract submission: June 15, 2020
- Poster notification: June 30, 2020 

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4) Call for tutorials:

CMSB 2020 will host tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses
on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of
computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations
of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be
either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half.

A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent
directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2020 at easychair.org)

Important Dates
- Tutorial submission: April 01, 2020
- Tutorial notification: May 04, 2020

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5) Call for presentations:

Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings.
CMSB will host some talks without paper submission. The requirement is that
the works to be presented have been already accepted in a journal. The PDF
version of the article has to be submitted electronically, so as to
help the committee to select the talks to be given at the conference. 
The committee will not review the article, since it has already been accepted for
publication in a journal.

Please indicate in the abstract field of the web-form to which journal the
article has already been accepted.

Important dates
- Presentation submission: May 14, 2020
- Presentation notification: June 15, 2020

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PC co-Chairs
- Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK)
- Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Verena Wolf (University of Saarland, Germany)

Tool Track Chair
- David Šafránek (Masaryk University Brno, CZ)

Local Organisation Chair
- Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Steering Committee
Alessandro Abate - University of Oxford (UK) - guest member
Ezio Bartocci – Vienna University of Technology (Austria) – guest member
Milan Češka – Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) – guest member
Finn Drablos – NTNU (Norway)
François Fages – INRIA Saclay Île-de-France (France)
Jérôme Feret – INRIA – Paris (France) – guest member
David Harel – Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Monika Heiner – Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany)
Heinz Köppl – Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) – guest member
Pietro Lio’ – University of Cambridge (UK) – guest member
Tommaso Mazza – IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel (Italy)
Satoru Miyano – University of Tokyo (Japan)
Nicola Paoletti – Stony Brook University (USA) – guest member
Tatjana Petrov - University of Konstanz (Germany) - guest member
Gordon Plotkin – University of Edinburgh (UK)
Corrado Priami – CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento (Italy)
David Šafránek – Masaryk University (Czech Republic) – guest member
Carolyn Talcott – SRI International (USA)
Adelinde Uhrmacher – University of Rostock (Germany)
Verena Wolf - Saarland University (Germany)

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