[Infovis] CFP BioVis 2015

[Hendrik Strobelt]

Call for Participation -- BioVis 2015
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Compact
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July 10 - 11 , 2015 
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.biovis.net <http://www.biovis.net/>


Call
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BioVis 2015, hosted by ISMB in Ireland, is the 5th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The Symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.

We invite submissions of original research articles, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and design contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. 

All papers accepted into the conference will be considered for publication in the BMC Bioinformatics journal, using a two-stage review process. All conference papers will also be made available through the IEEE Digital Library and/or BMC Proceedings.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission: February 15, 2015
Poster submission: May 29, 2015
Data Analysis Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015
Design Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015

(All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time - PDT. )



Committees
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General chairs
	Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany
	G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Paper chairs
	Daniel Weiskopf, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany
	Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium

Poster chairs
	Alexander Lex, Harvard University, USA
	Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publication chairs
	Cydney Nielsen, University of British Columbia, Canada
	Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Primer/Tutorial chairs
	Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA
	Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia

Challenges chairs
	Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia
	Greg Carter, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

Data Contest chairs
	Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
	William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA
	Jason Bohland, Boston University, USA

Design Contest chairs
	Eamonn Maguire, Oxford University, UK 
	Ryo Sakai, Leuven University, Belgium

Industry and fundraising chairs
	Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK
	Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh, USA
	Hanchuan Peng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA

Website chairs
	Tengfei Yin, Seven Bridges Genomics, Cambridge, USA
	Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Publicity chairs
	Hendrik Strobelt, Harvard University, USA
	Andreas Hildebrandt, University of Mainz, Germany

Steering Committee
	Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA
	Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)
	Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
	Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
	Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA