<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">Call for papers and posters<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;">The 2019 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Niagara Falls, New York, September 7-10, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.cs.odu.edu/~bioinfo/index.html" class="">http://www.cs.odu.edu/~bioinfo/index.html</a></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(17, 84, 204);"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p align="center" class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(17, 84, 204);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">The 2019 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop will be held in conjunction with ACM-BCB. The rapid accumulation of macromolecular structures presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in the analysis, comparison, modeling, and prediction of macromolecular structures and interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers with expertise in bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, data mining, machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing to discuss new results, techniques, and research problems in computational structural bioinformatics.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">CSBW invites high-quality original papers and posters on developments in computational problems relating to molecular structure.</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Authors of accepted papers will be provided approximately 20 minutes to provide an oral summary of their work, with time for questions. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop to present the paper. Registration to CSBW is complementary with registration to ACM-BCB 2019.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Important dates: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Notifications sent to authors: July 1, 2019 </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Camera-ready paper submission: July 8, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Poster (2-page abstract) submission deadline</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">: August 20, 2019</span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Workshop at ACM-BCB Conference: September 7-10, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Full manuscripts and poster abstracts are being accepted. Both will be published in the conference proceedings. </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Submitted paper manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, and poster abstracts not to exceed 2 pages (see ACM templates at</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 84, 204);"><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" class="">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">). Submissions are via easychair at </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 84, 204);"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbw2019" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbw2019</a></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Journal Special Issue:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Selected submissions will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue in MDPI <b class="">Molecules</b>. Journals used in previous years included the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2007), BMC Structural Biology (2009, 2012) the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2011), Journal of Computational Biology (2015, 2016) and Molecules (2017, 2018). </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">CSBW also seeks 2-page poster abstracts on developments or significant works in progress towards computational problems relating to molecular structure. </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Posters sessions will expand scientific dialogue at the workshop and train students in scientific communication. Authors of accepted posters will have unhurried opportunities to communicate their results in poster sessions taking place during the workshop. All accepted papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM digital library in the proceedings of the ACM-BCB Conference.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Structure representation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Structure prediction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Structure alignment<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Interaction and docking<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Molecular dynamics simulations<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Biomolecular graphics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Coarse-grained modeling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Data mining/Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning methods for structural data<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Structural genomics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- High-performance computing in modeling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Graph theory applied to structural problems<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Optimization in structural problems<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Bio-molecular structure refinement<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">- Structure-based drug design<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Workshop Chairs: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Nurit Haspel, UMass Boston<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Dong Si, University of Washington Bothell<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Lin Chen, Elizabeth City State University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Keynote Speaker: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">TBA <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Steering Committee Chairs: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Jing He, Old Dominion University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Brian Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Amarda Shehu, George Mason University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Steering Committee: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Willy Wriggers, Old Dominion University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Roland Dunbrack, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vasant Honavar, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lydia Kavraki, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anna Panchenko (NIH/NLM/NCBI)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ruth Nussinov, Computational Structure Biology Group, National Cancer Institute, Frederick MD<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Contact</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">: For questions regarding the workshop, please email <a href="mailto:Nurit.Haspel@umb.edu" class="">Nurit.Haspel@umb.edu</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="">
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