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). 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, a selection of high quality abstracts can be extended before final papers submission deadline as full paper. Authors of accepted abstract should contact, by email to iwbbio@ugr.es, indicating their interest in completing the extension to 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 in LNBI format), abstract and/or short paper (maximun 8 pages, published in the conference proceedings, under both ISBN and ISSN references).

Authors whose contributions have been accepted as full paper, will receive an email indicating the status of FULL PAPER acceptance and the instructions so that they can send the necessary information of the CAMERA READY (both paper and copyright form).

All accepted contribucion, 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.