Final call for contributions: deadline August 5.
Workshop on Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/masamb2016 26th annual workshop, Computer Science Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Important dates:
August 5 2016: Submission deadline for oral presentations
September 5 2016: Author notification date
September 5 2016: Late submission deadline for poster presentations
October 3/4, 2016: Workshop date
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Bioinformatics and statistical genetics, twin themes of the long-running series of annual MASAMB meetings, have gained huge impetus from large-scale genome sequencing projects and development of high-throughput biological assay systems, including gene-expression microarrays, proteomic and single-cell genomics technologies. These immense data resources, and the underlying complexities of molecular and cell biology, provide exciting research opportunities for numerate scientists.
The workshop will host presentations of emerging problems and statistical techniques in molecular biology. We encourage contributions describing either progress on new molecular problems or work on established problems using new approaches that are substantially different from established approaches. Kernel methods, graphical models, semi-supervised approaches, feature selection and other techniques applied to relevant problems would all be appropriate for the workshop.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The MASAMB program will be compiled from submitted abstracts. Researchers interested in contributing should upload a one-page abstract in PDF format to the MASAMB submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=masamb2016by August 5, 11:59pm (BST).
All submissions will be peer reviewed and will be evaluated on the basis of their technical content. A typical submission to the workshop represents a new mathematical or statistical approach applied to a problem in molecular biology. We encourage submissions both for established as well as new and emerging fields.
The workshop allows submissions of abstracts that are based on papers that are currently under review or have been recently published in a conference or a journal. The authors should clearly state any overlapping published work at time of submission.
LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Max Convey (University of Cambridge)
Pietro Lio’ (University of Cambridge)
Oliver Stegle (EMBL-EBI)
Lara Urban (EMBL-EBI)
