Computational Structural Bioinformatics (CSBW 2016), call for papers
Dec 15-18, 2016, Shenzhen,  China,

This year, the Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2016. The rapid accumulation of macromolecular structures presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in the analysis, comparison, modeling, and prediction of macromolecular structures and interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers with expertise in bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, data mining, optimization and high 
performance computing to discuss new results, techniques, and research problems in computational structural bioinformatics. 

CSBW invites high quality original papers and posters on developments in computational problems relating to molecular structure. Authors of accepted papers will be provided approximately 15-20 minutes to provide an oral summary of their work, with time for questions. Please refer to the website below for details on format and submission. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop to present the paper. Registration to CSBW is complementary with registration to IEEE BIBM 2016. 

Workshop webpage: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~bioinfo/CSBW.php 
IEEE BIBM webpage: http://cci.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm2016/ 

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Oct 05, 2016: Paper submission deadline 
Nov 10, 2016: Notification of paper acceptance 
Nov 20, 2016: Camera-ready paper submission deadline 
Dec 15-18, 2016: workshop/IEEE-BIBM conference 

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format through the online submission system. You can download the format instruction here (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). 

All accepted papers will appear in proceedings published by IEEE digital libraries. 
Selected papers may be offered to submit an extended version to a special journal issue, subject to final agreement currently explored with some journals. Journals used in previous years included the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2007), BMC Structural Biology (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013), Journal of Computational Biology (2015) and the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2011, 2012). 

CSBW also seeks poster abstracts on developments or significant works in progress towards computational problems relating to molecular structure. Posters sessions will expand scientific dialogue at the workshop and train students in scientific communication. Authors of accepted posters 
will have unhurried opportunities to communicate their results in poster sessions taking place during the day. 

The workshop plans to arrange a remote conference to allow authors of accepted papers to present remotely. For more information, please contact workshop chairs.


Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 
- Structure representations 
- Structure prediction and refinement 
- Structure comparison and alignment 
- Molecular interaction, docking, and simulation 
- Coarse-grained modeling 
- Mining structural data 
- Structural genomics 
- Applications of high performance computing to structural problems 
- Applications of graph theory and optimization to structural problems 
- Structure-based drug design 
- Biomolecular graphics 


STEERING COMMITTEE: CO-CHAIRS 
Amarda Shehu, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University 
Nurit Haspel, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston 
Brian Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University


WORKSHOP CHAIRS: 
Jing He, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University 
Weitao Sun, Zhou Pei-Yuan Applied Mathematics Center, Tsinghua University
Kamal Al Nasr, Department of Computer Science, Tennessee State University


Contact: For questions regarding the workshop, please email jhe@cs.odu.edu