CFP

The explosion of data generated by recent developments in molecular
biology and genomics has produced computational challenges which
represent collaborative research opportunities for computer scientists.

            Research Paper Track on Bioinformatics
        16th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2001)
                     March 11-14, 2001
                   Las Vegas, Nevada  USA

The explosion of data generated by recent developments in molecular
biology and genomics has produced computational challenges which
represent collaborative research opportunities for computer
scientists. The primary aim of this track is to attract papers that
address these challenges relative to a variety of problems and
techniques and hence to showcase the spectrum of current computational
application within biology; as such, paper topics of interest include
the whole of bioinformatics and computational biology. Papers authored
or co-authored by students are of particular interest.

As this is the first-ever research track in bioinformatics at SAC,
a special feature of this track will be a series of associated events at

SAC2001 sponsored by ACM SIGBIO (Special Interest Group on Biomedical
Computing):

        * A keynote lecture by Gene Myers (Vice President of Informatics
           Research, Celera Genomics)
        * A half-day tutorial on bioinformatics.
        * A panel discussion on developing university bioinformatics
curricula.

The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is September 1, 2000,
and authors will be notified by October 13, 2000. For more information,
see http://www.cs.mun.ca/~harold/CFP/SAC01 (bioinformatics track home
page) or
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2001 (conference home page) or
contact
the track chair, Warren Jones (jones@cis.uab.edu).