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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
(apologies<span style="background:white"> for </span>cross<span style="background:white">-</span>posting)<br>
<br>
We are happy to announce an open call for submissions to the </span><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Computers and Graphics Journal (C&G)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Special Section on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data. We invite original research, system, and survey papers that summarize and expand the state of the art in visualization and computer graphics with a strong focus
on applications to molecular data. <br>
<br>
<b>Important Dates</b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">************************************************************************</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission portal open: 1.10.2020<br>
Submission deadline: 31.1.2021<br>
First decision notification: one month after the submission (latest on 28.2.2021)<br>
Final decision notification: three months after the submission (latest on 30.4.2021)<br>
<b>************************************************************************</b><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">We solicit several types of submissions:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Journal paper submissions
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">presenting original work within the scope described below.<br>
<b>Survey papers </b>discussing the state-of-the-art topics relevant to MolVA Workshop (</span><a href="http://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xbyska/molva/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">tinyurl.com/molva</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">).<br>
<b>Extended and revised versions of full papers, short papers, and surveys</b> that were accepted only for presentation at the
<b>MolVA </b>2021 workshop.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed by at least three experts according to the standards of Computers and Graphics Journal. You can find the
complete author guidelines at: </span><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.<br>
<br>
The papers might be accepted either as <b>journal publications</b> or <b>conference-only publications</b>. The journal publications will be published directly in Computers and Graphics journal, while the conference-only papers will be publis</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">hed
in EG Digital Library. The conference-only publications will be offered to submit an extended version that will undergo another
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">fully peer-reviewed process and could be still accepted as a journal publication after the workshop. After the first round of reviews the authors
will be notified about the track that was selected for their paper based on the quality of the publication and may choose to retract the paper if they do not wish to accept the decision.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your contribution via
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Editorial Manager</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (deadline: February 28, 2021):</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/CAG/default.aspx">https://www.editorialmanager.com/CAG/default.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All accepted papers will be presented at
</span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/molva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MolVA 2021 Workshop</span></a></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, which will be co-located with
</span><a href="https://www.eurovis.org/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">EuroVis 2021</span></a></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> in Zurich, Switzerland. Therefore, at least
one of the authors of an accepted paper will have to register and attend the workshop.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Molecular Graphics & Rendering</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Web-based Molecular Graphics & Visualization</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Immersive Analytics approaches using, e.g., VR/AR technologies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visual Analysis of Molecular Data (e.g., molecular structures, biological networks and pathways, or omics data)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visualization of Dynamic Molecular Data & Large Molecular Systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Machine-learning approaches for analysis of molecular data</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tools papers describing new molecular visualization tools or novel features in existing tools</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Jan By¹ka, Michael Krone, Björn Sommer</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> CaG Guest Editors</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> MolVA 2021 Organizing Committee</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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