[lsg-rg] Call For Papers - ACM Crossroads Special Issue in Bioinformatics

[Susie Stephens]

I would be honored to be a reviewer.

Regards,

Susie



Angulo, David wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I am the guest editor of the ACM Crossroads special issue on
>Bioinformatics.  ACM Crossroads is the largest and most popular college
>computing journal by and for computer science students, and sponsored by
>the premier computer science professional organization, the Association
>for Computing Machinery.
>
>We are looking for professional guest reviewers and editors from the
>academic community for this special issue on bioinformatics.  If you
>have the time to spare to review 3-5 article submissions, please let us
>know.  If you have a bit more time to help an accepted article through
>the editorial process, including content editing, that would also be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>In addition, we are calling for articles related to bioinformatics.  We
>are hoping that you will pass this message along to any of your students
>who might be interested in submitting an article to Crossroads for this
>issue (both graduate and undergraduate students). Please also forward
>this on to your colleagues so that they can distribute it to their
>students. The "Call for Articles" is below...
>
>Thank you. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or
>the Editor-in-Chief, Jerry Guo.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>David S. Angulo
>Faculty
>College of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Science
>DePaul University
>dangulo at cti.depaul.edu
>
>Jerry Guo
>Editor in Chief, ACM Crossroads
>Yale University
>ji.guo at yale.edu
>
>--
>Call For Articles
>Crossroads, the Association for Computing Machinery Student Magazine
>Bioinformatics (Fall 2006)
>
>DUE DATE: 3 April 2006
>SUBMISSION ADDRESS: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/submit/
>INFORMATION: crossroads at acm.org
>http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/cfas/bio.html
>
>The Crossroads editorial staff invites authors to submit articles
>dealing with topics drawn from several areas pertaining to
>bioinformatics and computational biology. The following partial list of
>topics is provided to give prospective authors ideas for articles and is
>by no means exhaustive; other relevant topics will be considered. Papers
>that draw connections between two or more of these areas are especially
>welcome.
>
>   * Genetic programming
>   * Neural networks
>   * Genomic and sequencing analysis
>   * Evolutionary modeling
>   * Data mining
>   * Protein structure prediction
>   * Modeling and simulations
>   * Bioinformatic programs
>   * Expression analysis
>   * Bioinformatic ethics
>
>Articles should include a basic description of the kinds of problems
>being worked on, the state of the art of research, the state of the art
>of commercial applications, open problems, or future research/commercial
>development trends. Interviews with researchers; reviews of related
>books, software, videos, or conferences; and opinion columns on related
>issues are also welcome. We especially encourage both undergraduate and
>graduate students to submit articles.  However, articles written or
>coauthored by professionals will also be considered.
>
>Crossroads articles should be written for a broad audience. They should
>be easily understandable by someone who has had only the most basic
>computer science instruction, and yet still be interesting to the
>advanced computer enthusiast. Articles longer than 6000 words will
>generally not be considered for publication. Feature articles should be
>between 1500 and 6000 words; reviews should be between 800 and 2000
>words; and opinion columns should be between 800 and 3000 words.
>Articles should be written in a magazine style rather than a research
>paper style. In consideration of our diverse readership, authors should
>try to use language that is inclusive of people regardless of their
>gender, race, religion, nationality, or field of study.
>Additional writing guidelines and submission information are available
>online at the Crossroads web site
>(http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/writing.html).
>
>Crossroads is published both online and in print. We have a print
>circulation of about 20,000. All back issues are available for free on
>our website. Authors that have an article printed in Crossroads can
>receive complementary copies of the issue they were published in.
>
>All submissions should be formatted in XHTML or plain text format with
>all images at least 300 dpi, and submitted via
>http://www.acm.org/crossroads/submit/
>
>Submissions are due April 3, 2006. They will be reviewed shortly
>thereafter and authors of accepted submissions will be notified within
>two to three weeks of the deadline.
>
>Prospective authors are invited to send email to the editors of
>Crossroads (crossroads at acm.org) indicating their intention to submit an
>article. In this way we can keep everyone informed of any changes in
>deadlines or formats and to make sure we have a good variety of
>articles. General questions should also be sent to the Crossroads
>editors.
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