BMC Bioinformatics AIMM 2010 - Special Issue:
CALL FOR PAPERS

A special issue of the Journal BMC Bioinformatics will showcase original papers that address themes relevant to the: Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations which is outlined in the links below

http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2010/sessions.html

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/aimm.html

  • Mutation Nomenclature, Databases and Metadata: Design, Content, Accuracy.
  • Extraction of mutations and annotations from literature.
  • Impacts of Mutations: Prediction and Bootstrapping.
  • Mutation Data Integration, Phenotype Ontologies, Semantic Support and Reuse.

Published manuscripts will include a clear and motivating description of the specific challenge and biological context that they address and a lucid illustration of the proposed solution.

Article-processing charges

Please note that the standard BMC Bioinformatics publication processing fees apply to submissions to this special issue. Please refer to http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/ifora/ for further information and formatting requirements for preparing main manuscript text.

Important Dates

Submissions open October 10th (2010)
Abstracts Due November 30th (2010)
Submissions due* December 18th (2010)
Revised manuscript submitted February 28th (2011)

Submissions

Pre-submission enquiries and variations to the deadlines above may be made in consultation with the Special Issue Editor .

* Author instructions can be obtained by sending an email to an automated reply will be sent and complete submissions should be uploaded to Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aimm2010

Special Issue Editors

Christopher J. O. Baker - University of New Brunswick, Canada

Rene Witte - Concordia University, Canada

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK

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