Call for Contributions

Contribute to CAMDA! Academic researchers and industry practitioners share their lates research and experience in the analysis of complex data. Many novel algorithms have been introduced at CAMDA first. Presentations often show novel insights from unusual approaches and angles of attack. The set annual analysis challenges provide unique opportunities, focus, and inspiration.

CAMDA Challenges 2017

Submission

Please submit your research as PDF or Office files, and clearly indicate the presenting author. Extended abstracts are limited to 3-5 pages.

Submission Options

  1. Full methods research papers can be submitted to the regular ISMB Proceedings Track (note January ISMB Proceedings deadline!), specifying CAMDA as intended target audience.
  2. Extended abstracts of late breaking methods research or analyses of the CAMDA challenge data sets can be submitted by the CAMDA submission deadline on 19th of May. Extended abstracts should include at least preliminary key results and figures. Based on the extended abstract, the scientific committee selects teams to present their work at the CAMDA conference, where updated results need to be shown.
  3. Paper or abstract submissions that could not be accepted for a talk presentation can be shown as posters.
  4. Work can directly be submitted for poster presentation.

If you submit an extended abstract, you are invited to further update and revise your manuscript after the conference, with full research papers due in September. Full research papers are published subject to fast-track peer review in a special CAMDA proceedings issue of the fully indexed, open access Biology Direct journal.

ISMB requires poster submission fees for late / non-member submissions, so please consider submitting poster abstracts early. Please clearly indicate if you would like a submitted full paper or extended abstract to automatically be considered as a submission for poster presentation if we cannot offer a conference talk.

Submission Requirements

  • All research submitted to CAMDA must be previously unpublished original work intended for publication, including procedures and results.
  • Challenge data set embargo: Any challenge data that is not already in the public domain remains exclusive for participants in the contest until conference presentation. This means that no publication of your results is allowed prior to the CAMDA conference. Once research has been accepted for publication at CAMDA, however, dissemination by pre-print servers is fine and encouraged.
  • Research introducing data sets outside the set CAMDA challenges need to put these data in the context of the challenges and make both raw and derived data publicly available if the submitted work is accepted.
  • Methods research needs to include at least two independent types of validation, such as a benchmark on simulated data with known truth, a benchmark on real-world data with built-in truths, or an application to real-world data with critical biological / medical interpretation.
  • Researchers introducing novel computational approaches must make their procedure available to others (e.g., source code or commercial demo), and a publication of source code is strongly encouraged.

Questions concerning the Call for Papers should be directed to: camda2017@easychair.org.

PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine

Nikolaus Rajewsky, PhD
Nikolaus Rajewsky, PhD
Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine

Terry Speed, PhD
Terry Speed, PhD
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Sandrine Dupoit, PhD
Sandrine Dudoit, PhD
University of California, Berkeley

John Quackenbush, PhD
John Quackenbush, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health

Eran Segal, PhD
Eran Segal, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science

John Storey, PhD
John Storey, PhD
Princeton University

Chris Sander, PhD
Chris Sander, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Temple F. Smith, PhD
Temple F. Smith, PhD
Boston University

Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health

Christopher E. Mason, PhD
Christopher E. Mason, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Mick Watson, PhD
Mick Watson, PhD
The Roslin Institute

IMPORTANT DATES
Extended Abstract Proposals Due19 May 2017
Notification of Accepted Contributions26 May 2017
Early Registration Closes15 Jun 2017
CAMDA2017 Conference22-23 Jul 2017
ISMB/ECCB 2017 Conference21–25 Jul 2017
Full Paper Submission Click to save the dates!24 Sep 2017
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