TOPICS OF INTEREST

CMSB 2020 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, on the analysis of biological systems, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • formalisms for modelling biological processes
  • models and their biological applications
  • frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation of biological systems
  • methods for synthetic biology and biomolecular computing
  • machine learning
  • model inference from experimental data
  • model integration from biological databases
  • multi-scale modelling and analysis methods
  • collective behaviour
  • high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations

In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing frameworks to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models.

Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories:
A) Regular papers
B) Tool papers
C) Posters
D) Tutorials
E) Presentations of already published papers

The proceedings of the two first categories of papers of CMSB 2020 will
be published as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science
/ Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI).

Publication of extended versions of a selection of the papers in a special
issue of a journal is under consideration.

Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories:

A) REGULAR PAPERS

Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and must conform to the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them.

Replicability and reproducibility:
A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, etc. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work.

B) TOOL PAPERS

Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and must conform to the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages including references. Appendices will not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results. Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of submission for evaluation by the committee; please add a link in the manuscript. Each submission must be accompanied by supplementary information illustrating the usage of the tool (e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable, how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation. Please, provide these in the form of appendix. Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk.

C) POSTERS

CMSB 2020 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modelling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains.

We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists!

Poster abstracts must conform to the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages.

D) TUTORIALS

CMSB 2020 will host tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half.

A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2020@easychair.org)

E) PRESENTATIONS

Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in proceedings.
CMSB will host some talks without paper submission. The requirement is that the works to be presented have been already accepted in a journal. The PDF version of the article has to be submitted electronically, so as to help the committee to select the talks to be given at the conference. The committee will not review the article since it has already been accepted for publication in a journal.

Please indicate in the abstract field of the web-form to which journal the article has already been accepted.

GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION

All papers and poster/presentation abstracts have to be written in English and submitted electronically using the EasyChair online submission system in the form of a PDF file. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices and thus the submissions must be intelligible without them.

All accepted contributions must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth).

Please note that additional poster abstracts for posters without flash presentation can be still sent by email (please use the address cmsb2020@easychair.org).

Regular Paper abstract presubmission: 04.05.2020
Regular paper submission: 14.05.2020
Author notification: 29.06.2020
Final version: 13.07.2020 
Tool Paper abstract presubmission: 04.05.2020
Tool Paper submission: 14.5.2020
Author notification: 29.06.2020
Final version: 13.07.2020
Poster abstract submission: 06.07.2020
Author notification: 21.07.2020
Tutorial abstract submission: 01.04.2020
Author notification: 04.05.2020
Presentation submission: 14.05.2020
Author notification: 15.06.2020

Dear Authors, thank you again for sending your contributions to CMSB 2020! Please note that, since we have extended deadlines for contributions, we also had to extend the deadlines for author notification, so to allow enough time for the reviewing phase.