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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>PLEASE DISTRIBUTE === PLEASE DISTRIBUTE === PLEASE DISTRIBUTE<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><!--beginarticle--><big>Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2008</big></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><big><o:p> </o:p></big></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><big>AUGUST , 2008 – SANTO ANDRÉ, BRAZIL</big></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US">* * * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * * *<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p>THE SYMPOSIUM:
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></big><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US">"Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics" (BSB) is the new name for the Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics (WOB).
Previous editions of WOB were in 2002 (<span class="SpellE">Gramado</span>, RS), 2003 (<span
class="SpellE">Macae</span>, RJ), and 2004 (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Brasilia</st1:place></st1:city>, DF).
The first edition of BSB was in 2005 (<span class="SpellE">São</span> <span
class="SpellE">Leopoldo</span>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Rio Grande</st1:place></st1:city> do <span class="SpellE">Sul</span>), while the second was in Angra dos Reis in 2007.
All editions of WOB and BSB are sponsored by the </span></big><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US">Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) </span></big><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US">.
Proceedings of BSB2005 and BSB 2007 were published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics.<o:p></o:p></span></big><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></big><big><span style=""
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2008 invites you to submit papers on COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY,
BIOINFORMATICS and APPLICATIONS. <o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">This multidisciplinary symposium provides a general forum for presentation and discussion of original research on computational
biology and bioinformatics.
BSB 2008 aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers, both in computer science, mathematics and statistics
as well as in life sciences (molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, medicine, microbiology and others).<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Topics include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining
<big>- </big></span>Biomedical Text Mining</big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Structural and Functional Genomics<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Comparative Genomics<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Protein Structure and Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Gene and Molecular Networks<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Molecular Evolution and <span
class="SpellE">Phylogenetics</span><o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Computational Systems Biology<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Computational Proteomics<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Algorithms for problems in computational biology<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">- Applications on molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology and others.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> This year BSB will have a special track on agent technologies and multiagent systems in computational biology and bioinformatics. </span>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Applications on distributed information gathering, distributed annotation systems, and other uses of autonomous agents </span>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">and multiagent systems are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to:
</span></o:p></span></big><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• I</span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">ntegration of the biological data models</span>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• Data gathering and query processing biological database</span><span
style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• Integration of distributed systems for comparative genomics and proteomics
</span></big><big><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• Distributed annotation
</span></big><big><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• Negotiation of conflicting funtion prediction
</span></big><big><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">• Agents in system biology</span></big>
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<pre style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Deadline for paper submission: March 7, 2008, midnight GMT</span><o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 9, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Deadline for final paper versions:<span
style=""> </span> May 23, 2008, midnight GMT<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Conference:<span style=""> </span><span
class="GramE"> August<span style=""></span></span> 18-20, 2008 (followed by a </span></big><big><span
style="" lang="EN-US">school on </span></big><big><span style=""
lang="EN-US">bioinformatics from 21 to 23 of August)<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">BSB2008 will accept two kinds of contributions: full papers or extended abstracts, on three tracks:
i) computational biology and bioinformatics, ii) applications, and iii) multiagent systems applications on computational biology
and bioinformatics. Full papers may have up to 12 pages; extended abstracts can have at most 4 pages. <o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Accepted full papers are expected to be presented orally during the symposium. Extended abstract authors will present their work in a poster during the symposium. <o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">The program committee may <span
class="SpellE">acccept</span> as "extended abstract" a paper originally submitted as full.
Authors of such submissions will have the choice of accepting this decision and modifying their manuscript accordingly,
or retracting the submission.<o:p></o:p></span></big><big><span style=""
lang="EN-US"><o:p>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Conference proceedings (including accepted full papers and extended abstracts) will be published.
At this point the program committee is starting negotiations with Springer in order to publish the proceedings in the
series LNBI as in 2005 and 2007.
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">There will be a "best paper award".<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Submissions must be done electronically. The address for upload will be announced soon.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">ALL manuscripts MUST be written in ENGLISH and include an abstract.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">The format to be used is "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS). All the explanations and necessary files for this format can be found at<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><a
href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html"><span
style="" lang="EN-US">http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</span></a><span
style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">In this site, information and files for authors using both <span
class="SpellE">TeX/LaTeX</span> and MS Word can be found.
We urge all prospective authors to download the necessary files from this site as they prepare their submissions for BSB 2008;
old versions of the LNCS style files may cause us problems.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">For full papers, manuscript length (including all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 12 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">For extended abstracts, manuscript length (including all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 4 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></big></pre>
<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Manuscripts that deviate from these guidelines may risk rejection without consideration of scientific merit.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">BSB 2008 Program Co-chairs (alphabetical order)<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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<big><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"
lang="EN-US">Ana
L. C. Bazzan (UFRGS,</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-US">
Brazil</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"
lang="EN-US">)</span></big><span
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Mark
Craven (University of Wisconsin)<br>
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Natalia Martins </big>
</span><span class="signature">(<small>Embrapa Genetic Resources and
Biotechnology, Brazil)</small></span><br>
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">Members of the program committee will be announced soon.<o:p></o:p></span></big></pre>
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GENERAL CHAIRS
BSB 2008 General Coordination and Local Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></big><big><span
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André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho<span style="" lang="EN-US">- Chair
</span></big><pre><big>Katti Faceli (USP/São Carlos) and Ana Carolina Lorena (UFABC) - Local Organizers</big></pre>
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<big><span style="" lang="EN-US">STEERING COMMITTEE
</span></big>Maria Emilia M. T. Walter - UnB
Sérgio Lifschitz - PUC/RJ
José Carlos Mombach - UFSM
João Carlos Setubal - VBI
Alberto Davila - Fiocruz/RJ
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VENUE:
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<pre><big><span style="" lang="EN-US">BSB 2008 is organized by the UFABC<st1:place
w:st="on">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>. It will be held in Santo Andre, Brazil.
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Santo André is one of the cities that integrate the São Paulo Metropolitan
area, which includes the biggest Brazilian city, São Paulo. Although it is
mainly urban, Santo André has eleven parks, including an area where the
Atlantic Forest is preserved and may be visited. Another attraction is the
historic district of Paranapiacaba, which was originally an English
village in the 19th century.</pre>
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