Call for Journal Papers – JCB Special issue for The Computational Structural
Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW 2015), Part of IEEE-BIBM 2015.
Jing He1, Brian Chen2, Nurit Haspel3 and Amarda Shehu4
1
Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA 23529 USA
2
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 18015 USA
3
Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston MA 02125 USA
4
Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax VA 22030 USA
jhe@cs.odu.edu chen@cse.lehigh.edu nurith@cs.umb.edu amarda@gmu.edu
Summary
The Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW) was held on November 9, 2015 in
Washington, DC, as part of IEEE-BIBM (International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine).
This year CSBW consisted of 11 presentations from original work. The organizers reached an
agreement with the Journal of Computational Biology (JCB) for a special issue associated with CSBW.
We invite authors of selected workshop papers to extend their conference submission into a journal
version (see specific requirements at the end of CFP). We also extend an invitation to the structural
bioinformatics community to submit original, high-quality work to the special issue.
The emphasis on the submitted manuscripts to JCB special issue should be on algorithms and
computational methods in structural bioinformatics, rather than data analysis.
Prediction and analysis of molecular structures proposes challenging but interesting computational
problems. The unique challenge of structural bioinformatics comes from the combination of the
fundamental concepts of physics, chemistry, biology and geometry, as well as the rapid accumulation
of molecular data. The special issue aims to attract papers, which focus on the fundamental
computational work that is related to 3-dimensional molecular structures.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Structure representations
- Structure prediction and refinement
- Structure comparison and alignment
- Molecular interaction, docking, and simulation
- Coarse-grained modeling
- Mining structural data
- Structural genomics
- Applications of high performance computing to structural problems
- Applications of graph theory and optimization to structural problems
- Structure-based drug design
- Biomolecular graphics
Submission
The manuscripts should be submitted through the following site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2016specialissue .
The manuscripts will undergo a review process and accepted/revised papers will be eventually
submitted to the manuscript central site of JCB. Open access fee may be charged to authors of accepted
papers. Please refer to JCB website for more information about publication charge.
Important dates:
Submission of extended version: April 1, 2016
Estimated publication: summer or fall of 2016.
Specific Instruction for CSBW papers
If the journal submission is an extension of a conference paper, it must be given a new title and is
significantly extended (>30%) in both size and new results/methods. Your submission to easychair
needs to be a PDF file that combines (1) the new paper to the special issue; (2) the conference paper;
(3) a letter that summarizes the main difference between the two papers; (4) a brief explanation of new
contributions beyond the conference paper in the Introduction section of the new paper.
For comments or questions email: jhe@cs.odu.edu