CMSB 2011

News! CMSB 2012 will be organized by David Gilbert at the Royal Society in London on 3-5 October 2012.

News! The proceedings of CMSB 2011 are now on line in the ACM digital library.

The 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2011) will be organized by INRIA in Paris, France, on September 21-23, 2011.

CMSB 2011 solicits original research articles on the analysis of biological systems, networks, and data. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: original paradigms for modelling biological processes; original models together with their application domains; frameworks and techniques for verifying, validating, analyzing, and simulating biological systems; high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations; inference from high-throughput experimental data; model integration from biological databases; model reduction methods; multi-scale models; control of biological systems. Contributions on modelling and analysis of relevant biological case studies are especially encouraged.

CMSB is in cooperation with the ACM SIG Bioinformatics. The proceedings of CMSB 2011 will be published in the ACM Digital Library with ISBN and DOI references. Print-outs of the proceedings will be available at the conference.

After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

For this year, the HiBi workshop has merged into CMSB. A selection of best papers from the HiBi session will be considered similarly for publication in an international journal.

Invited talks

Thomas Henzinger, IST, Austria,

Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester, UK

Denis Thieffry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Important dates

Program Committee

Best paper awards

The Program Committee of CMSB 2011 will give two best paper awards: one Best Student Paper Award and one NVIDIA Best Paper Award.

The Best Student Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and receives an award of 500 US$ from the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM). For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper Award, a student must be the lead author, the submission must be done in the student paper category and the student must present the paper at the conference.

The NVIDIA Best Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and receives one high end Tesla GPU equipment of a value of 3,999 US$ donated by NVIDIA. Any paper on any topic of CMSB can qualify for this award provided the submission indicates the NVIDIA Best Paper Award category.

Submission guidelines

CMSB solicits the submission of papers describing original research not published nor currently under review for another conference or journal.

All papers will be refereed by the Programme Committee. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to present the work described in the accepted paper at the conference.

Papers should be in the standard two-column ACM conference format, and should not exceed 10 pages. Templates for the ACM style, as well as detailed guidelines for using them, can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Submission is via Easychair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2011

Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library with ISBN and DOI references, which requires a copyright transfer from the authors of accepted papers to ACM after the ACM copyright policy. Print-outs of the proceedings will be available at the conference.

After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. A selection of best papers from the HiBi session will be considered similarly for publication in another international journal.

The templates for ACM conference style provide space for ACM Computing Classification categories and terms (see http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998). This indexing is not required of submissions. Accepted authors will receive suggestions and guidelines on categories and terms.

Organising Committee

Location and venue

The Institute Henri Poincaré (IHP), 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris,
is in the Latin district in the center of Paris, near the Luxembourg garden.
The conference will be held in amphitheater Hermite.

IHP can be reached by using the metropolitan RER B at station Luxembourg. The connection to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (north of Paris) is direct with RER B and takes one hour. The connection to Orly airport (south of Paris) also takes one hour with RER B with a change at Antony.

There are plenty of hotels and restaurants in the area (Paris district numbers 5, 6, 14 and 13). A few hotels are very close to IHP.

In case of difficulty for finding a hotel, you can use this site or this one for economic hotels on the periphery.

Registration

Supporters

TCSIM

Steering Committee

Past editions

CMSB 2010 Trento, Italy, CMSB 2009 Bologna, Italy, CMSB 2008 Rostock, Germany, CMSB 2007 Edinburgh, U.K., CMSB 2006 Trento, Italy, CMSB 2005 Edinburgh, U.K., CMSB 2004 Paris, France, CMSB 2003 Rovereto, Italy.