[CfP] Thematic series on Constraints and Bioinformatics: Algorithms for Molecular Biology

[Alessandro Dal Palu]

Apologies for cross-posting

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic series on Constraints and Bioinformatics
AMB: Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2011.

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The technology of Constraint and Constraint Logic Programming has
shown to be effective for a multitude of computational problems of
modern bio-sciences, which are typically complex and often
NP-hard. Constraint-based methods contribute essentially to the tool
set of Bioinformatics, due to their ability to simplify problem
modeling and face computationally challenging problems. These techniques
emerged in bioinformatics more than 10 years ago, introduced at the
workshops Constraints and Bioinformatics/Biocomputing associated to
CP97 and CP98. Since 2005, the Workshops on Constraint
based methods for Bioinformatics (WCB series) haven taken place annually.
Topics of particular interest comprise (but are not limited to)
sequence analysis, biological systems simulations, protein
structure prediction and docking, structure alignment, pedigree
analysis, and haplotype inference. The thematic series is open to any
original paper in the area that has not been published elsewhere. In
particular, we encourage the submission of full papers corresponding
to presentations in recent editions of the WCB series.

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Submissions will be handled directly by AMB as explained here:
http://www.almob.org/info/instructions/

In the COVERING LETTER, please state that you are submitting for
the thematic series on Constraints and Bioinformatics, with
associate editors Rolf Backofen, Alessandro Dal Palu',
Agostino Dovier, and Sebastian Will. Please feel free to
contact any of them for further questions.

The submission deadline is April 30th, 2011.

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