<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Call for Participation and Papers </div>3rd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (October 13 & 14, 2013)<br>============================================================<br><br>We invite you to contribute to the field of Biological Data Visualization at the premier <br>international and interdisciplinary event (BioVis 2013). For the first time this year we have a new,<br>interesting publishing policy. Authors of ALL accepted paper manuscripts will be invited to submit <br>an extended version to BMC Bioinformatics.<br><br>webpage: <br>-------------<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://biovis.net/">http://biovis.net</a><br><br><br>short facts :<br>----------------<br>What are the deadlines 2013?<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Papers: <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>April 30 abstract, <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>May 7 full manuscript<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Posters: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>August 2<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Data Contest: August 2<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Redesign Contest: August 2<br><br>What are options to participate?<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>1) Papers: <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>submit high quality research; up to 8 pages; published in the <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>symposium proceedings; oral presentation at the symposium; <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>authors of ALL accepted manuscripts will be invited to submit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> an extended version to BMC Bioinformatics<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>2) Posters:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>work in progress and preliminary results; previously published<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>work from other venues; visualization challenges<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>3) Data Contest:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>create a visualization (tool) to identify "driver" protein mutations <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>that change function, and "passenger" mutations that are just <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>along for the ride. <br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>4) Redesign Contest:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>submit a redesigned figure utilizing effective encodings and clear <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>visual communication to display a composite sequence logo for all <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>adenylate kinase enzymes and two different sub-families...<br><br><br><br>details:<br>-----------<br><br>The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets.<br><br>The Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is the premier international and interdisciplinary event for all aspects of visualization in biology. The Symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.<br><br>We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Genome and sequence data, including genomic variation data<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Multivariate omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Phylogenetic data<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Biological networks and pathways<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Biological Ontologies<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Structures (e.g., protein or RNA structures)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Visualization of biological image data, such as microscopy data<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Integration of image and omics data for systems biology<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Modeling, simulation, and visualization of biological systems<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Visualization in neurobiology and developmental biology<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Systems and software frameworks for biological visualization<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Integration of visualization in biological workflows or collaborative processes<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Visualization and visual analytics of integrated biological data sets<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Usability of visualization by biologists<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Creation and visualization of biological atlases and metadata<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Processes for interdisciplinary collaboration between biology and visualization.<br><br>Find more information on <a href="http://biovis.net/">http://biovis.net</a><br><br><br><br>Regards,<br>the organizers of BioVis 2013</div></div></div><br><br>
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