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<h1><font size=3><b>Journal of Structural
Biology</b></font></h1><font size=3><b>Special Issue on Software Tools
for Macromolecular Microscopy<br><br>
</b><i>Bridget Carragher and Fred Sigworth, Guest Editors <br>
</i> <br>
The <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i> invites submissions to a special
issue on Software Tools for Macromolecular Microscopy. It has
been 10 years since the first JSB Special Issue on Computational Image
Processing (JSB Volume 116 (1996)) which, as with two following Special
Issues (Vol 125/2-3, 1999; Vol 144/2-3, 2003) on closely related
themes, has been a valuable resource to the research community, to judge
by the high citation frequencies. Several of the groups who support
and are further developing the major image processing software packages
have already agreed to submit papers describing the current state of
their software. We encourage contributions from everyone who is
active in developing software for macromolecular microscopy and
distributing this to the community. We also encourage and welcome
contributions on new algorithmic approaches; computational tools related
to tomography; and novel ways to integrate EM and crystallographic
data. We hope that the result will be a Special Issue
that will again serve as a major resource and reference for the
computational tools related to macromolecular microscopy.<br><br>
Please contact either Bridget Carragher
(<a href="mailto:bcarr@uiuc.edu">bcarr@uiuc.edu</a>) or Fred Sigworth
(<a href="mailto:fred.sigworth@yale.edu">fred.sigworth@yale.edu</a>) if
you wish to discuss the suitability of a paper prior to submission or if
you have questions or suggestions related to the Special Issue. <br><br>
The deadline for receipt of manuscripts is: 1 April 2006 with a
proposed publication date in the Summer of 2006. Manuscripts will
be peer-reviewed using the criteria of the <i>Journal of Structural
Biology </i>(see
<a href="http://www.academicpress.com/jsb">
http://www.academicpress.com/jsb</a>). Submissions should be sent
electronically via the journal Web site
(<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjsbi">
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjsbi</a>; e-mail:
<a href="mailto:jsb@elsevier.com">jsb@elsevier.com</a>). Please
state in your covering letter that the paper is intended for the
<i>Special Issue on Software Tools for Macromolecular Microscopy.
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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<br>
</a>National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy:
<a href="http://nramm.scripps.edu" eudora="autourl">
http://nramm.scripps.edu</a> <br>
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