Call for Papers

The Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS) is a cooperating workshop of the IEEE Signal Processing and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, and it is financially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), and The Whitaker Foundation.

The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide a forum for presenting new results on genomic signal processing and statistics for functional genomics and systems biology and identify potential areas of research and collaboration between the biological, statistical, and signal processing communities. One of the main objectives is to identify new avenues of research, which address modern challenges in functional genomics, by exploiting potential synergies between signal processing, statistics and biology and by building on their respective strengths. Such problem areas might include: signal processing and extraction of information from microarray images; statistical analysis of microarray data (classification, gene selection, regulatory network inference, and clustering); information theoretic approaches to modeling and analysis of genomic regulatory networks and systems; signal processing and statistical techniques for the analysis of protein data and inference of protein networks; and novel high-throughput hardware/software approaches to genome-scale network modeling and analysis. This workshop will consist of both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Invited speakers will give tutorial talks on the general area of computational functional genomics and proteomics.

The workshop will be held on the main campus of The Johns Hopkins University, which is located near downtown Baltimore. It is sponsored by The Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

This call for papers is to solicit contributed papers for the poster sessions which are expected to be highly interactive. Those interested should submit a four-page summary describing original work. Final version of accepted papers will be published in electronic proceedings which will be distributed by the web and by CD-ROM at the workshop. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Participation at the workshop will be limited to 130 attendees. Registration fee will be kept very low and travel grants will be offered to selected student participants.

Areas of Interest:

• Digital signal processing and statistical approaches for functional genomics problems
• Digital communications approaches for reverse engineering biological networks
• Data mining and pattern recognition methods for functional genomics
• Control theory and systems theory techniques for systems biology
• Models for cellular metabolism and inter-cellular signaling
• Computational methods for modeling and simulation of biological regulatory networks
• Novel architecture and implementation methods for large-scale functional genomics

Deadlines:

• January 9, 2004: Four page summaries due
• February 9, 2004: Accept/reject notifications sent out
• April 19, 2004: Final four-page camera-ready papers due

For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop web page.

General Chairs:
John Goutsias
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

Pablo Iglesias
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

Technical Program Committee:
Yidong Chen
NIH/NHGRI/CGB

Donald Geman
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute and
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University

Michael Giddings
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The University of North Carolina

Jeffrey MacDonald
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina

Giovanni Parmigiani
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins University

John Quackenbush
The Institute for Genomic Research

Ilya Shmulevich
Department of Pathology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Plenary Talks:
Ilya Shmulevich
Department of Pathology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Publications:
Seungchan Kim
Translational Genomics Research Intstitute

Publicity:
Elebeoba May
Department of Computational Biology
Sandia National Laboratories

For additional information, please contact Prof. John Goutsias.

Send comments to: Bernadette Watts
Modified on: November 26, 2003