SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors must submit an original contribution in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Please, use our Easychair submission system to upload your contribution.

There are two different categories for submissions:

• Full paper contributions

Full papers should contain 10-12 pages in its final version according to the Lecture Notes in BIoinformatics (LNBI) format of Springer-Verlag format. Extraordinarily, other two additional pages could be considered with a supplementary fee.

Templates for full papers are provided in LaTeX and Microsoft Word formats. Please, read carefully guidelines and instructions for authors that are included at Springer site. Authors must strictly follow the provided format to submit their contributions. For any question, please CONTACT US.

All accepted full papers will be published under Lecture Notes in Bionformatics (LNBI) (In progress, to be confirmed). The registration, before the deadline, is mandatory for the publication in the LNBI proceedings. These contributions will be indexed in the main indexing platforms, for instance, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Thompson Reuters) and DBLP database.

• Abstract contributions

Abstract submissions are also accepted (at least two pages in LNBI format). Abstracts must be submitted directly in the EasyChair platform. Once they have been accepted, selected abstracts can be extended before final papers submission deadline as full paper.

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings, under both ISBN and ISSN references.

Accepted contributions

After review process, all the accepted contributions, according to the suggestions of the reviewers, will be classified as: full paper (10-12 pages for LNBI proceedings of full papers), abstract and/or short paper (maximum 8 pages, published in the abstract conference proceedings, under both ISBN and ISSN references). All accepted contributions, with the information/evaluation of the chairman of the session in conjunction with the review comments and the summary of reviews, will be taken into account for selecting the very high quality contributions for Special Issues.

SPECIAL ISSUES (Tentative)

A list of contributions with very high quality will be selected to be extended and submitted in different special issues. We have currently contacted with some journals: