Call for Papers

Bioinformatics Visualization

Special Issue of Information Visualization Vol.4 No.3

Palgrave/Macmillan

Guest Editors:

Chris North & Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Submissions due: 15 January 2005

Acceptance notices: 5 March 2005

Final revisions due: 15 April 2005

The theme for this special issue of Information Visualization
(Palgrave/Macmillan) is Bioinformatics Visualization
(Published 1st September 2005). Original papers are solicited in this area.
In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing the design,
development, and evaluation of visualization methods for the bioinformatics
domain.

The mapping of the human, rice and other genomes has lead to rapid expansion
of bioinformatics. High-throughput technology and other advances have
resulted in the collection of massive quantities of data. These factors,
combined with the complexity of the life sciences, set the standard for the
future of information-intensive scientific investigation and create unique,
difficult problems for information visualization. Exploratory visualization
tools that enable visual investigation of computational biological data and
bioinformatics databases are beginning to emerge.

We seek original research and application papers that explore this important
emerging arena of information visualization. Case studies and applications
of bioinformatics topics are also welcome. Life scientists will be on the
review board of this special issue.

Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization of:

Heterogeneous biological databases
Sequence analysis, comparison, and alignment methods
Molecular evolution
Genomics, gene expression and gene regulatory networks
Micro-Array Design and Analysis
Proteomics
Signalling pathways, biochemical networks
Molecular docking and drug design
Species taxonomies and functional ontologies
Experiment data and process management
Biochemical and cellular simulation and models

Enquiries should be made to both guest editors. Authors should inform the
guest editors of their intent to submit before submitting a manuscript.
Electronic submissions of manuscripts in PDF or Word (97 or later) are
recommended via email to Chris North [north@cs.vt.edu] and Theresa-Marie
Rhyne [tmrhyne@ncsu.edu]. If manuscripts are submitted in printed form,
please send four copies of full articles to either guest editor at:

  Chris North                       Theresa-Marie Rhyne
  660 McBryde Hall                  Learning Technology Service/DELTA
  Dept of Computer Science          NC State University
  Virginia Tech                     Campus Box 7113
  Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106         Raleigh, NC 27695
  email: north@cs.vt.edu            email: tmrhyne@ncsu.edu