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1. Invitation
2. General Submission Information
3. Submission Deadlines and Notification Dates

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For submission guidelines and deadlines in PDF format click here.

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1. Invitation
We invite you to submit your research to InCoB2012 in the form of:

• Full paper
  Original research,not submitted for publication elsewhere, for oral presentation and publication in BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology, or Journal of Immunological Methods.
• Abstract
  For (A) Poster Sessions and (B) Technology, Tool, Methodology, Resource, Database, or Software Demonstrations/Posters.
• Late-breaking abstract
  For short oral presentations.
• Breakout session proposal
  For organizing a thematic session on an emerging topic. Session organizers may invite presenters to submit journal articles post-conference.

Submission to InCoB2012 may cover any aspect of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational systems biology or immunoinformatics, conveying a scientific result. InCoB2012 conference areas (in alphabetical order) are as follows:

Agroinformatics Bioimaging Bioinformatics applications Bioinformatics models, methods & algorithms Biological sequence analysis Bio-ontology and semantics Data mining and knowledge discovery Database management Drug design and discovery Genetics of cell differentiation & reprogramming Genomics Genome and proteome manipulation

High through-put omics and imaging platforms Immunoinformatics Medical and health informatics Metabolomics Metagenomics Microarray analysis Population genetics Proteomics Scalable data storage Structural bioinformatics Synthetic biology Systems biology Workflow and knowledge management

2. General Submission Information

ALL submissions to InCoB2012 must be uploaded to EasyChair conference system for review as a single ZIP-compressed file containing the manuscript file including references, tables and figures and additional (or supplementary) files if any. Authors without an existing EasyChair account are required to create an EasyChair account prior to submission.

EasyChair submission page is now OPEN for new submissions. Re-submissions are allowed
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2012

Submitting authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted full paper, abstract, or late-breaking abstract must register for InCoB2012 and remit the registration fee. A single registration can cover only one oral presentation and one abstract presentation (poster, demo or late-breaking submission) of the registrant. Alternatively, one registration can cover two abstracts (two posters or two demos or one poster and one demo) with the registrant as one of the authors.

3. Submission Deadlines and Notification Dates

Deadlines	Description
15 February	1st call for papers, poster abstracts, abstracts for software/tool/resource/database/technology demo, and tutorial videos Submissions open at EasyChair
1 March	Early-bird registration begins
15 March	2nd call for papers, poster abstracts and abstracts for software/tool/resource/database/technology demo
31 May 21 April 1 April	Deadline for Full paper submission
31 May 15 May	Deadline for Poster abstract submission Deadline for software/tool/resource/database/technology Demonstration Abstract submission Deadline for Breakout session proposal
30 June 15 June 1 June	Poster abstract acceptance Demonstration abstract acceptance Breakout session proposal acceptance
15 July 1 July	Deadline for APBioNet Travel grant application submission
10 August 25 July 30 June – 10 July 15 – 30 June	Full paper conditional acceptance
10 August 29 July 15 July	Announcement of APBioNet Travel grants
31 August 29 July 15 July	Deadline for Full paper final submission and Author registration
29 July	Deadline for Late-breaking abstract submission
31 August 1 August	Full paper final acceptance Late-breaking abstract acceptance
31 August	Deadline for “Early bird” registration
3 – 5 October	InCoB2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of APBioNet (scheduled on 3 October 2012)