******************************************************************** BioVis'15 The 5th Symposium on Biology Data Visualization www.biovis.net 10-11 July, 2015, Dublin, Ireland Co-located with ISMB 2015, as an official SIG of ISMB ******************************************************************** BioVis'15 CFP: Data Contest and Design Contest http://biovis.net/year/2015/info/overview http://biovis.net/year/2015/design-contest Would you like to help biologists understand one of the fundamental mysteries of how small differences in our genomes create the wildly different individuals that we are? If you're interested, BioVis has two exciting challenges for you to compete in, win prizes, get published, and help move research forward. This year's BioVis contests center around the properties of Ribonucleic Acid (RNA). RNA is commonly thought of as the biological carbon-copy used to carry information from the genome to the protein machinery of life. But, in addition to simply being a symbolic transcription language for the genome, RNA also performs important functions and carries other messages in properties such as its structure. This year's BioVis *Design* challenge poses the question of how to best represent RNA structure, and potentially the panoply of structures that an RNA molecule can form, with the goal of helping researchers understand the similarities and differences between different RNA molecules. This year's BioVis *Data Analysis* challenge takes things one step further, and asks whether you can figure out the structural, or other physical properties of different RNA molecules that predispose some individuals towards disease, and others towards health. If you've got a good idea for the Design challenge, you can test its real-world application in the Data Analysis challenge, and maybe even solve a pressing health question regarding epilepsy! If you'd like to learn more about the kinds of issues researchers face in trying to understand RNA structure, you can watch our short YouTube presentation here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1UbIUZ8k9o> More information about the BioVis contests, the data for the contests, and how you can submit your entry, is available from the BioVis website: < http://www.biovis.net/> The submission deadline is May 1st, 2015. We welcome both individual and group entries containing anything from clever ideas to full implemented solutions. The best entries will be invited to give a presentation at the BioVis meeting during the ISMB 2015, and selected entries will be invited to publish full papers. If you have any questions about the contest, the contest data, or about your prospective entry, please don't hesitate to contact us. Contact: contest@biovis.net. Submission deadline: May 1st, 2015, 5pm PST. The Data Contest chairs: * Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA * William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA * Jason Bohland, Boston University, USA The Design Contest chairs: * Eamonn Maguire, Oxford University, UK * Ryo Sakai, Leuven University, Belgium -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Associate Professor of Computer Science Electronic Visualization Lab University of Illinois at Chicago http://evl.uic.edu/marai