CALL FOR PAPERS
Early Registration deadline is November 8th, 2006. Delegates must be pre-registered to attend.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: Extended to Sept 25th, 2006
Notifications to Authors: Nov 1st, 2006
Early Registration Deadline: November 8th, 2006
Conference Dates: Dec 1-3, 2006
Revised Papers Due to Molecular Systems Biology: Jan 15, 2007
Final Molecular Systems Biology Decision: Feb 1st, 2007

To submit your paper, please click here: (author guidelines below).

SCOPE:
Systems Biology involves the use of global cellular measurements-- i.e. genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic-- to construct computational models of cellular processes and disease.  The quantitative data being generated are on the order of thousands of individual molecular channels, and these data have been used widely to successfully identify patterns indicative of biological responses or disease states.  Specific types of global measurements include mRNA and protein expression profiles, protein phosphorylation and other post-translational modifications, metabolite levels and fluxes, systematic phenotyping, protein-protein interactions, transcriptional interactions, as well as synthetic-lethal and other genetic interactions.  There is a pressing need for new methods for analyzing these data to reduce noise and to integrate them into biological models.

Proteomics is defined as the study of the total protein complement of a cell.  This broad definition includes, but is not limited to: protein identification and quantification in specific cellular environments; structural genomics; networks of protein interaction; post-translational modifications; and others.  With the sequencing of the genome, and subsequent identification of the parts list (the gene and their protein products), there is a renewed emphasis on studying the proteome.  Mass Spectrometry is emerging as a key technology for proteomics, with applications in all of the areas mentioned above.

Clearly, the emerging disciplines of Systems Biology and Proteomics are intertwined, and the amount of research in both of these areas has exploded in recent years.  The jointly held RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics provide a forum for new methods that broadly either or both of these areas.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

All submissions are handled through the conference website.  At the time of submission (deadline Sept 25th), authors should indicate whether they would like their manuscript to be considered for publication in Molecular Systems Biology.  Papers published by Molecular Systems Biology are subject to a publication fee to be paid by authors upon acceptance. Manuscripts to be considered for Molecular Systems Biology should be submitted in the format specified on the Molecular Systems Biology website (http://www.nature.com/msb/authors; Report format please).  Other manuscripts should be submitted in the LNBI format (LNBI-track papers) (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html; maximum of 10 pages, not including the cover page and bibliography).

Each manuscript will receive 2-3 reviews.  The top 10-15 manuscripts will be selected for oral presentation at the conference (decision letter sent Nov 1st).  The Molecular Systems Biology manuscripts, and their reviews, will also be sent directly to the Molecular Systems Biology editorial team (fast-tracked).  Molecular Systems Biology editors will select suitable manuscripts and contact the authors to seek appropriate revisions based on the referees' reports.

Revised manuscripts will be due to Molecular Systems Biology by Jan 15th.  Final decisions will be made by the Molecular Systems Biology editors on Feb 1st.  Manuscripts accepted by Molecular Systems Biology will be published on-line soon thereafter in a single issue, with a special section devoted to the conference.  All papers selected for oral presentation but not published by Molecular Systems Biology will be published by Springer in a special issue of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, unless otherwise specified by the authors.  This will be a single joint publication between the two satellites.

Submissions must be received in electronic form by 11:59pm (PDT) of September 25, 2006. Due to the short turn around time for reviewers, we will not be able to make exceptions to the deadline.