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<b>Journal of Structural Biology<br><br>
Special Issue on Analytical Methods and Software Tools for Macromolecular
Microscopy<br>
</b><i>Bridget Carragher and Pawel A. Penczek, Guest Editors <br><br>
</i>The <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i> invites submissions to a
special issue on Analytical Methods and Software Tools for Macromolecular
Microscopy. This will serve partly as a follow up to an
earlier JSB Special Issue on Image Processing that appeared in 1996
(Volume 116 (1996)) and included articles about most of the software
tools in common use in cryo-electron microscopy at that time.
Several other Special Issues since that time have focused on similarly
technical issues in this area; for example Volume 125 on Molecular
Visualization Software (Smith, Engel, Steven) in 1999 and Volume 133 on
Single Particle Methods (Chiu and Ludtke) in 2001. <br><br>
Given the explosive growth of structural biology over the past several
years and in particular the intense current interest in the techniques of
macromolecular microscopy we think the time is ripe for another special
issue that will gather together the current research and progress in the
methods and tools that are used in the structural analysis of
macromolecules. <br><br>
We thus invite submission of manuscripts of relevance to Analytical
Methods and Software Tools developed for Macromolecular Microscopy.
Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to: <br>
<font face="Symbol" size=2>·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Analytical
methods and techniques for data processing and interpretation<br>
<font face="Symbol" size=2>·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Numerical
methods and software packages for the analysis and reconstruction of
single particle, helices, icosahedral viruses and two-dimensional
crystals.<br>
<font face="Symbol" size=2>·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Algorithms
relevant to the analysis and reconstruction of tomographic data.<br>
<font face="Symbol" size=2>·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Tools
and techniques for fitting and modeling<br>
<font face="Symbol" size=2>·<x-tab> </x-tab></font>Data
mining methods and tools <br><br>
We seek manuscripts that are theoretical, methodological, or
issue-focused in addition to those that report original research.
We will also consider review papers that provide an overview and summary
of any of the relevant topics of interest. We will not include
papers that would serve only as a tutorial on how to use a specific
software tool or system. If in doubt as to the suitability of your
manuscript for inclusion in the special issue please contact either
Bridget Carragher (<font color="#0000FF"><u>bcarr@uiuc.edu</u></font>) or
Pawel A. Penczek
(<font color="#0000FF"><u>Pawel.A.Penczek@uth.tmc.edu</u></font>) to
discuss the matter prior to submission. <br><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">The deadline for receipt of manuscripts
for the Special Issue is 1 June 2003. <br>
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed using the criteria of the <i>Journal of
Structural Biology </i>(see
</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.academicpress.com/jsb</u></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">.
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Submissions should be sent as an email attachment to either Bridget
Carragher
(</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>bcarr@scripps.edu</u></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">)
or Pawel Penczek
(</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>Pawel.A.Penczek@uth.tmc.edu).<br><br>
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Bridget Carragher, Associate Professor<br>
Automated Molecular Imaging Group, Department of Cell Biology<br>
The Scripps Research Institute, MC CB129,10550 North Torrey Pines Road,
La Jolla, CA 92037<br>
tel: (858) 784-9070; fax: (858) 784-9090; bcarr@scripps.edu;
<a href="http://ami.scripps.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://ami.scripps.edu</a><br>
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