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Symposium on Bioinformatics Visualization (BioViz'08) |
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CGIV08-BioViz Symposium Theme Visualization is an important, and often necessary,
part of Bioinformatics. Sequence alignment, gene expression data, NMR
spectra, protein networks, for example, all rely heavily on interpreting the
data visually--both for discovery and validation. Bioinformatics data are typically complex,
and data sizes routinely run into the gigabyte and terabyte ranges. Thus, even traditionally tractable
polynomial running times for algorithms are not practicable. Visualization in these cases is used to
select subsets of data that can be more readily processed and analyzed. Bioinformatics tools are used by a wide
array of scientists most of whom are not typically computer scientists. Therefore, interacting with not only the
visualization components, but also using the tools on the whole must be made
efficient and reasonably intuitive.
Human Computer Interaction (HCI), the study of how to improve this
digital/human interface is becoming a very important aspect of bioinformatics
as well. Visualization in bioinformatics offers many
significant challenges, and success is likely to come from a joining of many
disparate disciplines and areas including computer graphics, high performance
computing, cognitive science, HCI, computer science, data mining, molecular
biology, and so on. We invite papers on these important challenges in
visualization in Bioinformatics. Papers will be refereed, appear in the
conference proceedings, and be published by IEEE Computer Society. There is a
tentative plan to select 5-7 high-quality papers that will be recommended for
publication in a special visualization issue of well-known bioinformatics
journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST: § Systems biology
tools § Visualization of curation and annotation of genome data § Genome comparison
visualization § Combining visual
and computational methods of genome data exploration § High performance
computing § Optimizations of
existing visualizations e.g., dot plots § Visual querying of
genome data § Collaborative
visualization and mining for bioinformatics § Evaluation of
visual data mining methods § Extensions of existing
open tools e.g., cytoscape § HCI including case
studies of bioinformatics visualization approaches § Cognitive
approaches and explanations for visual data mining for bioinformatics § Surveys of
existing tools Submission Deadlines: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/cgiv08/DATES.htm Submission guidelines and instructions at: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/cgiv08/PAPERS.htm |
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http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/cgiv08/BioViz.htm |
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All enquiries should be addressed to Anita
D’Pour |
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Symposium organizers and
chairs: Dr. Mehmet Dalkilic E:dalkilic@indiana.edu Dr.
Dennis P. Groth |
Anita D’Pour |
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