The ISCB Student Council Symposium serves as a platform for students to present their research in Computational Biology and related areas. We solicit your original and unpublished contribution for presentation at the symposium from all subfields of Computational Biology. Abstracts submitted and/or accepted at ISMB 2008 may be resubmitted to the Student Council Symposium. We also encourage students to submit work in progress.
Deadline
Monday, May 26th, 2008. You can submit until 11.59 pm in a time zone of your choice. If your abstract has been accepted you will be notified by us no later than June 9th, 2008.
Abstract
We ask you to submit a 500 word abstract in PDF format that may contain up to 2 figures, tables or related constructs with no more than a total of 100 words for captions. You will also have to provide a 50 word summary of your abstract for the program booklet and the symposium website. Please include the title of the abstract and the authors in the submitted PDF file.
Your abstract has to be formatted according to the abstract preparation guidelines by BMC Bioinformatics. Abstracts not formatted according to these guidelines cannot be accepted.
Presentation
All accepted abstracts may be presented as posters during the poster session. Additionally, the program committee will select 9 outstanding abstracts for oral presentation at the symposium. If you are not interested in a poster-only presentation you will be able to indicate this during the submission of your abstract.
If your abstract has been accepted for poster presentation or oral presentation please follow Presentation Guidelines when you are preparing.
Rules
Abstracts may cover material in any area of computational biology. They must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2007. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed and categorized into the following general areas: Arrays, Bioinformatics of Health and Disease, Biophysics, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Informatics, Comparative Genomics, Databases, Ecosystems & Ecology, Evolution, Function Prediction, Genomics, Gene Prediction, Genome annotation, Interactions, Machine Learning, Multiscale Modeling, Neuroscience, Ontologies, Population Genetics and Variation Regulation, Sequence analysis, Structural Genomics, Structure and Function Prediction, Systems Biology & Networks and Text Mining. Posters that do not fall into the above categories may be considered as well.
There is a maximum of one poster per presenting author. The presenting author of a poster must be present at the symposium and be available at the poster. Any author may submit to ISMB 2008 tracks as well, including Paper for original work, Highlights for previously published work, and ISMB 2008 Poster for original or previously published work presented as an abstract.
The ISCB Student Council Symposium will not offer tables for laptop computer demos during the poster session. If you would like to demonstrate your software, you are encouraged to submit an application for the ISMB 2008 Technology Track.
Publication
All abstracts will be considered "personal communication" to the conference attendees. Abstracts will appear in the program and on the conference website.
A highlights selection of around 15 outstanding abstracts will be published as a supplement to BMC Bioinformatics. Like the highlights from the 3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium the abstracts will be freely accessible on their website.
