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MCBIOS 2008 was held February 23-24, 2008 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was so far the best attended MCBIOS (140 registrants) with the most participation (68 posters submitted). Keynote talks were delivered by Dr. Bruce Roe and Dr. Edward Dougherty, and the full agenda is still online at http://www.okbios.org . Photos of the conference will be posted soon. Student poster award winners were: Vinay Ravindrakumar of UALR (1st place), Quan Shi of LRCHS (2nd) and Brian Roux of UNO (3rd), with honorary mentions going to Murat Eren of UNO and Prashanti Manda of MSU. Student talk winners were: Daniel Quest of UNMC (1st place), Nan Wang of MSU (2nd), and William Sanders of MSU (3rd).
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The deadline for submission of papers to be included in the MCBIOS 2008 Proceedings is Friday, March 28th, 2008.
Specific formatting instructions for BMC Bioinformatics can be found on their website (http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/instprepdoc). Note that this is a different web address than the one for their regular papers. Also, please note that authors of accepted papers will be asked to pay an article processing charge of £500 (about $995 US), an amount discounted for this event from the normal £950 (~$1,890 US). Because this is a special issue, fee waivers and institutional discounts do not apply.
BMC Bioinformatics (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics) is indexed by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar. Because BMC Bioinformatics is an online journal, there are no charges for extra pages or color pictures. In fact, they encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to publish multimedia images, animations and other files that would not be possible in print-only journals. BMC Bioinformatics offers the additional advantage that all articles are open-access and will appear online shortly after final editing of proofs.
Please email your intent to submit a paper to the Senior Editor, (Jonathan-Wren AT OMRF.org) as soon as possible to enable us to better plan for reviews, paper handling, etc. |
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March 28, 2008 |
Manuscripts should be submitted to Jonathan Wren |
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April 28, 2008 |
Reviewers return comments to editors |
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May 12, 2008 |
Revisions due back from authors |
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May 19, 2008 |
Final decisions made on submitted papers by reviewers |
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May 26, 2008 |
Editors notify authors of acceptability of papers |
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June 9, 2008 |
All final manuscript revisions due to editors along with payment of article processing charges due to MCBIOS |
| 2008 Proceedings Editors: |
| MCBIOS 2008 Pictures |
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The links below show some of the speakers and posters of the 2008 conference. Thanks to Dr. Sharon Lewis of Langston University for taking all the pictures!
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We are actively recruiting new members of our society! We encourage you to join the MCBIOS-L listserv. This is a moderated listserv with very low volume -- only "official" society announcements are approved. For some of you, this may be your first awareness of the society. If you wish to join the MCBIOS-L listserv, you can send a message to LISTSERV -AT- UALR.EDU (no subject required) with "SUBSCRIBE MCBIOS-L" in the body, or send email to RAHall2 -AT- UALR.Edu to be added to (or removed from) the MCBIOS-L listserv.
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| MCBIOS History |
The annual MCBIOS conference has historically attracted internationally renowned speakers, including David Mount, author of the popular bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis, Michael Gribskov, President of the International Society for Computational Biology, Alan Leshner, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science, Richard A. Gibbs, Director of the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center and Dr. Winston Hide, Director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute.
The conference attendance in previous years has reflected its status as the premier forum in the region, gathering faculty and students from all states in the region and beyond.
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| Contacts |
Jonathan Wren, Conference Chair and MCBIOS President: Jonathan-Wren@OMRF.org
Yuriy Gusev, Board Member, Conference Co-Chair and MCBIOS Treasurer: Yuriy-Gusev@OUHSC.edu
Dawn Wilkins, Board Member and MCBIOS President Elect: dwilkins@cs.olemiss.edu
Stephen Winters-Hilt, Board Member and MCBIOS Past President: winters@cs.uno.edu
The MCBIOS Board of Directors
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