Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Biomolecular Informatics Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA February 27 -- March 2, 2000 In conjunction with Fifth Joint Conference on Information Sciences Integrating Information Science with Molecular Biology The Biomolecular Informatics workshop will be a forum for practitioners, researchers, scientists, educators, students and users to explore new ideas and exchange tools, techniques and experiences in the fields of information science and molecular biology. We invite the submission of original research contributions that address how information science techniques can be applied to molecular biology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: In Molecular Biology In Information Science Biological Data Mining & Warehousing Algorithms Classification and Clustering Data Structures Conformational Space Analysis Genetic Computation Drug Design Information Theory Gene Finding Machine Learning Motif Discovery Neural Networks Protein Alignment Pattern Recognition Sequence Comparison Visualization and Graphics Structure Prediction Web Technology General Chair ------------- Paul P. Wang, Duke University, USA Program Cochairs ----------------- James Gattiker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Jason Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee ----------------- Tatsuya Akutsu, University of Tokyo, Japan Bobi DenHartog, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA David Elrod, Pharmacia & Upjohn, USA John Kececioglu, University of Georgia, USA Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan Takenao Ohkawa, Osaka University, Japan Frank Shih, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Gautam Singh, Oakland University, USA Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation, USA Kaizhong Zhang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Please send a hardcopy of an abstract, limited to 4 pages, and email its postscript file together with authors' names and addresses to Program Cochair: Dr. James R. Gattiker Information Analysis and Modeling Los Alamos National Laboratory Mail Stop F645 Los Alamos, NM 87544 E-mail: gatt@lanl.gov Phone: (505) 665-0604 Fax: (505) 665-4479 Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. A selected number of best papers will be expanded and revised for publication in the journals of "Information Sciences" and "Knowledge and Information Systems". ---------------------------IMPORTANT DATES------------------------------ Paper submission deadline: July 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 1999 Camera ready paper due: October 12, 1999 Workshop date: February 27, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information please contact the workshop coorganizer: Prof. Jason T. L. Wang Department of Computer and Information Science New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA E-mail: jason@cis.njit.edu Phone: (973) 596-3396 Fax: (973) 596-5777 or consult the Web page of the workshop at http://www.cis.njit.edu/~jason/biw2000.html