The 28^th International Conference on

Genome Informatics Workshop(GIW) / BIOINFO 2017

 

Samjeong Hotel, Seoul, South Korea

OCT 31 – NOV 3, 2017

 

The 28^th International Conference on Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) / BIOINFO 2017 will be held in Seoul, Korea from October 31^st to November 3^rd, 2017. It is great pleasure to announce that we are consolidating BIOINFO, the official annual meeting of Korean Society for Bioinformatics (KSBI), to the conference this year. The aims of the conference are to present the latest progress in theoretical and translational bioinformatics/computational biology, and to foster communications among researchers to shape the future of the research field.

We look forward to your paper submission and conference participation.

 

Yours sincerely,                      

                          

Sanghyuk Lee, Ph.D.                     Limsoon Wong, Ph.D.                       Keun Woo Lee, Ph.D.

Conference Chair                             Conference Co-Chair                          Conference Co-Chair

Dongsup Kim, Ph.D.                      Luonan Chen, Ph.D.                         Michiaki Hamada, Ph.D.

Program Chair                                  Program Co-Chair                                Program Co-Chair

Terry Gaarsterland, Ph.D.

Program Co-Chair

Sun Kim, Ph.D.                              Paul Horton, Ph.D.                           

Publication Chair                             Publication Co-Chair                           

 

Call for Paper

Papers in all areas related to works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on a molecular basis will be considered.

GIW does not publish conference proceedings. Instead, all accepted papers by GIW2017 will be published in a series of special issues of the follow journals:

• Bioinformatics
• Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
• Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
• BMC Bioinformatics
• BMC Systems Biology
• BMC Medical Genomics

Papers must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for           

publication elsewhere. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. All papers should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giw2017/.

In general, you should use the template of the journal whose preferred themes are closest to your submission. Select the button of the journal you think your manuscript fit the best when you submit your manuscript through the submission server. Note that you need to pay publication fees in case your manuscript will be selected for publication. Please check the website of the relevant journal for more information. Check the button to state that you can pay the fee in these cases. Otherwise, your manuscript will not be selected for publication in these journals.

At least one of the authors of the accepted papers are required to make the presentation at the conference, and must register and pay to attend the conference.

 

Important Dates

Full paper   submission deadline:	June   15, 2017
First   notification to the authors:	July   15, 2017
Revised   submission deadline:	July   31, 2017
Notification   of acceptance:	August   10, 2017
Camera-ready   submission deadline:	August   31, 2017
Author   registration deadline:	August   31, 2017
Conference   date:	Oct   31 – Nov 3, 2017