Dear colleagues, Please find the CFP for BioVis attached as a reminder to submit your excellent BioVis work until February 15. Hendrik Call for Participation -- BioVis 2015 ------------------------------------------------ Compact ======= July 10 - 11 , 2015 Dublin, Ireland http://www.biovis.net <http://www.biovis.net/> <http://www.biovis.net/ <http://www.biovis.net/>> Call === BioVis 2015, hosted by ISMB in Ireland, is the 5th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The Symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. We invite submissions of original research articles, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and design contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. All papers accepted into the conference will be considered for publication in the BMC Bioinformatics journal, using a two-stage review process. All conference papers will also be made available through the IEEE Digital Library and/or BMC Proceedings. Important Dates: ============= Paper submission: February 15, 2015 Poster submission: May 29, 2015 Data Analysis Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015 Design Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015 (All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time - PDT. ) Committees ========= General chairs Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Paper chairs Daniel Weiskopf, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium Poster chairs Alexander Lex, Harvard University, USA Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Publication chairs Cydney Nielsen, University of British Columbia, Canada Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Primer/Tutorial chairs Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA Seán O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia Challenges chairs Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia Greg Carter, The Jackson Laboratory, USA Data Contest chairs Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA Jason Bohland, Boston University, USA Design Contest chairs Eamonn Maguire, Oxford University, UK Ryo Sakai, Leuven University, Belgium Industry and fundraising chairs Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hanchuan Peng, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA Website chairs Tengfei Yin, Seven Bridges Genomics, Cambridge, USA Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Publicity chairs Hendrik Strobelt, Harvard University, USA Andreas Hildebrandt, University of Mainz, Germany Steering Committee Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair) Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA ---------------- Hendrik Strobelt Harvard SEAS http://hendrik.strobelt.com <http://hendrik.strobelt.com/>