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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT NOTICE: The deadline of SD&A 2018 has been extended to September 10, 2017!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">1st CfP "From Virtual Reality to Immersive Analytics in Bioinformatics", February 2018, Burlingame, California, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Special Session at the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX, Burlingame, California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Special Issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol 15, de Gruyter Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Bioinformatics usually deals with the smallest entities of life, therefore, visualization plays an important role in this field. Stereoscopic rendering has already been used for a long time for visualizing biological
structures, dating back to the first hype of virtual reality technologies 25 years ago when the CAVE was invented and Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) became affordable. Triggered by the success of new, modern HMDs such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Virtual Reality
has recently gained a lot of attention again. On the other hand, a new generation of large-scale "computational microscopes" is being established, such as the CAVE2, representing large, nearly 360 degree-spanning visualization facilities.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">At the same time, advanced "Visual Analytics" solutions have become an important tool in all areas of scientific data analysis, combining visualization, data mining and analysis methods, and user interaction. Uniting
both VR and VA, "Immersive Analytics" now starts to make use of new technologies, immersing the scientist into the data, and, in the best case, enabling advanced insights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This special issue will focus on: <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- What is the legacy of the past? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Which approaches (partly) failed, and which success stories were triggered by Virtual/Augmented Reality in the context of Bioinformatics?
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Which new ideas exist to approach now immersive analysis of biological data?
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Which methods, technologies and/or applications are expected to change the way we see and perceive biology?
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">More info: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://VR2IAinBioInf.immersive-analytics.org"><span lang="EN-US">http://VR2IAinBioInf.immersive-analytics.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX, 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2018, Burlingame, California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Since 1990, SD&A focuses on developments covering the entire stereoscopic 3D imaging pipeline from capture, processing, and display, to perception. SD&A XXIX will be held as part of the 2018 IS&T International Symposium
on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California, USA. The conference brings together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia to facilitate an exchange of current information
on stereoscopic imaging topics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://stereoscopic.org"><span lang="EN-US">http://stereoscopic.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Scope of the Special Session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Molecular biology produces huge amounts of data in the post-genomic era. This includes data describing metabolic mechanisms and pathways, structural genomic organization, patterns of regulatory regions; proteomics,
transcriptomics, and metabolomics. On the one hand, analysis of this data uses essentially the methods and concepts of computer science; on the other hand, the range of biological tasks solved by researchers determines the range and scope of the data. Integrative
Bioinformatics is a new area of research using the tools of computer science and electronic infrastructure applied to Biotechnology.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">We solicit submissions that describe the use of Immersive Analytics for data analysis in biology and Bioinformatics - potential topics include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Virtual and Augmented Reality approaches for data analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Semi- and fully immersive data exploration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Metabolic and Regulatory Network Modelling and Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Data Integration and Text Mining Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Signal Pathways and Cell Control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Network Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Medical Informatics, Biomedicine and Biotechnology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Integrative whole cell and molecular modelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Visual Analytics, Visualization, and Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Key Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- *<b>NEW</b>* September 10, 2017: Abstract to SD&A 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- January 10, 2018: Full manuscript submission due to JIB
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- February 1, 2018: Conference Presentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- April 2018: Review and revision process finished<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- May to June 2018: Publication of accepted papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Organizers and Contact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Bjorn Sommer, University of Konstanz, Konstanz/Monash University, Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Marc Baaden, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Michael Krone, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Andrew Woods, Curtin University, Perth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">If you have any question, please contact us:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:VR2IAinBioInf@immersive-analytics.org"><span lang="EN-US">VR2IAinBioInf@immersive-analytics.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Journal of Integrative Bionformatics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB) is an international open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles covering all aspects of integrative bioinformatics. It was established in
2004 and joined the Open Access family of de Gruyter - one of the oldest German publishers - in 2017. JIB (ISSN 1613-4516) is indexed by PubMed, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, SCOPUS and Google Scholar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jib"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jib</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">For 2017 and 2018 there is no publication fee for articles accepted and published by JIB!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Only submit your 500-word abstract to the conference (Deadline: August 15, 2017), use option 2 - presentation only), as the full paper has to be submitted to the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics in the next step
(Deadline: January 10, 2018).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://stereoscopic.org/2018/index.html#submit"><span lang="EN-US">http://stereoscopic.org/2018/index.html#submit</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Please follow the SD&A guidelines for writing the abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://stereoscopic.org/2018/index.html#sag"><span lang="EN-US">http://stereoscopic.org/2018/index.html#sag</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Please submit here your full paper (Deadline: January 10, 2018).
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgjib"><span lang="EN-US">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgjib</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">More info and templates you will find here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jib"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jib</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Review Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Each paper submitted to this special issue will be rigorously evaluated in a single-blind peer review process. All accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB).
By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Submit a final, camera-ready version to the publisher on or before the camera ready deadline.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Register at least one author to attend the conference on or before the registration deadline.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Attend the conference (at least one author).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Present the accepted paper at the conference.
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