** Call for Papers and Participation
Proceeding will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines.

Organized as part of the 2011 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 5th International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original research in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical data. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization, including issues affecting presentation and interaction with large or complex data sets. 

We encourage submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications, and in-depth surveys.

** Examples of biomedical topics include, but are not limited to:
Next-Gen Sequencing data
Biochemical networks
Phylogenies
Sequence alignment
Medical records
Clinical data
Proteomics, metabolomics, bio-repositories
Biosignatures of diseases

** Examples of visualization topics include, but are not limited to:
Comparative methods / User studies / Surveys
Interaction methods
Colors
Large data sets
Temporal data visualization
Real-time data visualization

----------------------------------------------------------------------
** Important Dates:
March 15, 2011 - Submission of papers through online submission system
May 5, 2011 - Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions)
May 15, 2011 - Early registration deadline
July 13, 2011 - Symposium
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Symposium URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/IVbm.htm
Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm
IV 2011 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/

** Symposium chairs:
Urska Cvek, Sc.D., MBA
Computer Science Department
Louisiana State University Shreveport
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Email: ucvek (AT) lsus.edu

Georges Grinstein, Ph.D.
Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Email: grinstein (AT) cs.uml.edu

Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D.
Computer Science Department
Louisiana State University Shreveport
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Email: mtrutsch (AT) lsus.edu

** Instructions for Authors
Reviewing is applied to all submitted papers. Authors are invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission system by March 15, 
2011. Electronic submission (PDF) is required and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/PAPERS.htm. The final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages - up to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 25 GBP per page. With the camera ready paper submission for publication, you agree to pay the registration fee (or reduced registration fee if your registration form is received on or before the early registration date) and published papers must be presented by at least one of the authors.