<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.E-MailFormatvorlage17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:2022975072;
mso-list-template-ids:-857029964;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:36.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:72.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:108.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:144.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:180.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:216.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:252.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:288.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:324.0pt;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0cm;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="DE" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We would like to inform you about the
<b>extended deadline</b> for submissions </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
Special Section on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data. <br>
<br>
Important Dates</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">************************************************************************<br>
Submission deadline: <s>31.1.2021</s> new: <b>22.2.2021</b><br>
First decision notification: <s>28.2.2021</s><b> </b>new: <b>22.3.2021</b><br>
Final decision notification: <s>30.4.2021</s> new: <b>17.5.2021</b><br>
************************************************************************<br>
Please note that the above deadlines are the latest possible. In accordance with the CnG standards, we ensure that the authors will receive the first notification within a month from the actual submission if they decide to submit earlier.<span style="background:white">
All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed by at least three experts. You can find the complete author guidelines at:
</span></span><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors"><span lang="EN-US" style="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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">We solicit several types of submissions:</span></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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Journal paper submissions
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">tinyurl.com/molva</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="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.<br>
<br>
<span style="background:white"><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>hed in EG
Digital Library. The conference-only publications will be offered to submit an extended version that will undergo another
<span style="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 it. </span></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;background:white"><br>
Please submit your contribution via Editorial Manager (Deadline: <b>February 22, 2021</b>)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/CAG/default.aspx"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">https://www.editorialmanager.com/CAG/default.aspx</span></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
<span lang="EN-US"><br>
<br>
Important Note to Authors:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Virtual Special Section, it is important that
authors select “<b>VSI: MolVA 2021</b>”, when they reach the “Select Article Type” step in the submission process.</span><span lang="EN-US"><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"><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><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><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">in Zurich, Switzerland. Therefore, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper will have to register and attend (possibly virtually) the workshop.<span style="background:white"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><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"><span lang="EN-US" style="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;padding-inline-start:48px" 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<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<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<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)<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<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<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<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="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>
</div>
</body>
</html>