CMSB 2021 - Call for papers
DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline for submission of papers to the Computational
Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB) 2021 conference, initially set for April 12,
is postponed by 10 days. The new deadline is April 22.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We are following with care the evolution of the situation with
the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope we will be able to hold the conference in
person. At present, however, this cannot be guaranteed. No matter the final
conference arrangement, we will ensure the possibility to participate in the
conference online.
See call for papers below. Please follow the conference website for other
information.
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The 19th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2021,
https://cmsb2021.labri.fr) will take place on September 22-24, either in
person in Bordeaux (France), or online, depending on the evolution of the
Covid-19 pandemic. CMSB is a well established conference series. It brings
together researchers from across biological, mathematical, computational, and
physical sciences who are interested in the modelling, simulation, analysis,
inference, design, and control of biological systems.
Co-chairs:
Invited speakers:
- Diego di Bernardo (TIGEM, Italy)
- Laurence Calzone (Institut Curie, France)
- Giulia Giordano (University of Trento, Italy)
- Yang-Yu Liu (Harvard Medical School, US)
- Ion Petre (University of Turku, Finland)
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
CMSB 2021 solicits contributions on the following or related topics:
- formalisms for modelling biological processes
- methods and tools for biological system analysis, modelling and simulation
- frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of
biological systems
- high-performance methods for computational systems biology
- identification of biological systems
- applications of machine learning
- network modelling, analysis, inference
- automated parameter and model synthesis
- model integration and biological databases
- multi-scale modelling and analysis methods
- design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology
- methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices
- data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology
- optimality and control of biological systems
- modelling, analysis and control of microbial communities
The conference welcomes new theoretical results with potential applications to
systems and synthetic biology, as well as novel applications and case studies
of existing methods, tools, or frameworks. Contributions should be submitted
to one of the following categories:
A) REGULAR PAPERS: Regular papers should describe original work that has not
been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere.
Accepted regular papers will be published as part of the conference
proceedings in the Springer LNCS/LNBI series and indexed by ISI Web of
Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar. Papers in this
category should not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS format (including main figures
and tables, excluding references and appendix).
B) TOOL PAPERS: Tool papers should present new tools or public websites, new
tool components or novel extensions to existing tools or websites supporting
biological system modelling, analysis, simulation, or similar. Submissions
must include information on methods, tool availability, and selected
application results. They should be original and not previously published in a
similar form. Accepted tool papers will be published as part of the conference
proceedings in the Springer LNCS series. Papers in this category should not
exceed 6 pages in the LNCS format (including main figures and tables,
excluding references and appendix). For the tool evaluation, authors shall
either submit an artifact along with the paper by the submission deadline, or
provide clear indications how to locate it on the web. If none of this is
applicable, authors shall contact the program chairs before submission
deadline to agree on alternative means of evaluation. Tool papers will undergo
a dedicated reviewing process that includes the testing of the tools, with
specific feedback returned to the authors. Authors of accepted tool papers
will be encouraged to showcase their tool in a tool session at the conference.
C) POSTERS: Extended abstracts should be submitted to propose poster
presentation of original unpublished work, or of major results published or
accepted in the last year in a high-quality journal or conference. The
abstracts should be submitted in Springer LNCS style and should not exceed 4
pages all included. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited for
presentation in a poster sessions and/or for flash presentations.
D) HIGHLIGHT TALKS: Highlight talk proposals should be submitted in the form
of an extended abstract, for possible oral presentation without publication of
related material in the conference proceedings. We particularly welcome
submission of recently published work. Submitted abstracts summarizing the
results and their relevance should not exceed 2 pages including references.
Each contribution will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee (reported below).
- A selection of best papers will be invited for extension and submission to a
special issue of BMC Bioinformatics at a discounted Author Processing Charge
(1282 GBP).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular and tool papers:
- SUBMISSION: APRIL 22, 2021
- notification: June 7, 2021
- final version: June 21, 2021
Highlight talks (presentation only):
- extended abstract submission: May 31, 2021
- notification: June 7, 2021
Posters:
- extended abstract submission: June 14, 2021
- notification: June 21, 2021
All of the deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
ORGANIZATION
Program committee and organization co-chairs:
- Eugenio Cinquemani – Inria Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes (France)
- Loïc Paulevé – CNRS, LaBRI (France)
Organization Committee:
- Auriane Dantès – CNRS, LaBRI (France)
- Clémence Frioux – Inria Bordeaux (France)
- Isabelle Garcia – CNRS, LaBRI (France)
- Misbah Razzaq – Inserm BPH, Bordeaux (France)
Program Committee:
- Alessandro Abate – University of Oxford (UK)
- Claudio Altafini – Linköping University (Sweden)
- Paolo Ballarini – CentraleSupélec (France)
- Ezio Bartocci – Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
- Luca Bortolussi – University of Trieste (Italy)
- Luca Cardelli – University of Oxford (UK)
- Milan Češka – Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
- Eugenio Cinquemani – Inria Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes (France)
- Neil Dalchau – Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
- François Fages – Inria Saclay Île-de-France (France)
- Karoline Faust –REGA Institute, KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Jerome Feret – Inria Paris (France)
- Christoph Flamm – University of Vienna (Austria)
- Clémence Frioux – Inria Bordeaux (France)
- Ashutosh Gupta – IIT Bombay (India)
- Jan Hasenauer – Universität Bonn (Germany)
- Monika Heiner – Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg
(Germany)
- Jane Hillston – University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Ina Koch – Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Jan Křetínský – Technical University of Munich (Germany)
- Jean Krivine – CNRS, IRIF (France)
- Pedro T. Monteiro – INESC-ID/IST – Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
- Laura Nenzi – University of Trieste (Italy)
- Jun Pang – University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Nicola Paoletti – University of London (UK)
- Loïc Paulevé – CNRS, LaBRI (France)
- Ion Petre – University of Turku (Finland)
- Tatjana Petrov – University of Konstanz (Germany)
- Carla Piazza – University of Udine (Italy)
- Ovidiu Radulescu – University of Montpellier France)
- Andre Ribeiro – Tampere University (Finland)
- Maria Rodriguez Martinez – IBM Zürich Research Laboratory (Switzerland)
- Olivier Roux – École Centrale de Nantes (France)
- David Šafránek – Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
- Guido Sanguinetti – University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Heike Siebert – Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
- Abhyudai Singh – University of Delaware (USA)
- Scott Smolka – Stony Brook University (USA)
- Carolyn Talcott – SRI International (USA)
- Adelinde Uhrmacher – University of Rostock (Germany)
- Andrea Vandin – Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
- Verena Wolf – Saarland University (Germany)
- Christoph Zechner – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and
Genetics (Germany)
Steering Committee:
- Alessandro Abate – University of Oxford (UK) – guest member
- Luca Bortolussi – University of Trieste (Italy) – guest member
- Luca Cardelli – University of Oxford (UK)
- Eugenio Cinquemani – Inria Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes (France) – guest member
- Finn Drablos – NTNU (Norway)
- François Fages – Inria Saclay Île-de-France (France)
- David Harel – Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
- Monika Heiner – Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg
(Germany)
- Tommaso Mazza – IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel (Italy)
- Satoru Miyano – University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Loïc Paulevé – CNRS, LaBRI (France) – guest member
- Ion Petre – University of Turku (Finland)
- Tatjana Petrov – University of Konstanz (Germany) – guest member
- Gordon Plotkin – University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Corrado Priami – CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento (Italy)
- Guido Sanguinetti – The University of Edinburgh (UK) – guest member
- Carolyn Talcott – SRI International (USA)
- Adelinde Uhrmacher – University of Rostock (Germany)
- Verena Wolf – Saarland University (Germany)
