Special Issue on Mining Complex Structures in Biology

Call for Papers – International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics Special Issue on Mining Complex Structures in Biology Trees and graphs are widely used to model complex structures in biology. For example, phylogenetic trees are used to show the evolutionary relationships among species. RNA secondary structures can be parsed by a grammar, which produces tree structures. Biological networks including gene, metabolic, as well as evolutionary and ecological networks are often represented by graphs. Development of tools to extract interesting, nontrivial, implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from the complex structures enables scientific discoveries or provides insight for wet lab experimentation. In this special issue, we solicit papers that describe new methods for or new directions in mining complex biological structures. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Discovering complex motifs in DNA, RNA and proteins Predicting 3D structures of RNA and proteins Reconstructing phylogenetic trees Building and mining biological networks Understanding structure-function relationships Modeling chemical and molecular structures Predicting protein-ligand docking, molecular interactions, and binding sites Papers must be original submissions and should be between 5,500 and 8,000 words in length. Survey or tutorial papers introducing a new emerging area will also be considered. Important Dates: 4/1/2010 Final deadline for submission of papers 5/1/2010 Notification of referee results 6/1/2010 Deadline for submission of revised papers 7/1/2010 Notification of final acceptance/rejection Please send a copy of your manuscript to the guest editor at the following address: Jason T. L. Wang, Professor of Bioinformatics New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA wangj@njit.edu