Call for Papers

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Special Issue on

Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics is seeking original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Machine Learning for Bioinformatics, scheduled for publication in the early 2005 timeframe.

Bioinformatics is the science of managing, analyzing, and interpreting information from biological data, sequences and structures. Advances in genome sequencing, microarrays, proteomics and functional and structural genomics have been creating a huge amount of data to be analyzed. On the other hand, machine learning (data mining) has been advancing in strides in recent years, with high impact applications in domains ranging from marketing to science. There is great potential to increase the interaction between machine learning and bioinformatics.

This special issue aims to bridge the gap between machine learning and bioinformatics. We believe that machine learning will provide powerful tools for analyzing, predicting, and understanding data from gene expression, drug design and other emerging genomic and proteomic technologies. In this special issue, we encourage papers on novel machine learning algorithms (including, but not limited to, classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic learning, inductive logic programming, reinforcement learning) and applications for tasks such as:

· Gene expression analysis

· Mass spectroscopy

· 3D structural and functional analyses

· Protein/RNA structure prediction

· Phylogenetics

· Sequence and structural motifs

· Genomics and Proteomics

· Gene finding

· Drug design

· Text mining in Bioinformatics

Authors will need to indicate their intent to submit a paper by September 1, 2004. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by this date. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines (available online at http://www.computer.org/mc/tcbb/author.htm). Feel free to contact the Peer Review Supervisor, Suzanne Werner at <swerner@computer.org> or the guest editors if you have any questions.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 1, 2004

Notification of Final Acceptance: December 27, 2004

Publication Date: Early 2005

Guest Editors

Ming Li University of Waterloo mli@math.uwaterloo.ca

Charles Ling University of Western Ontario cling@csd.wuo.ca

William Noble University of Washington noble@gs.washington.edu

Qiang Yang Hong Kong UST qyang@cs.ust.hk