2007 Call for Participation
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LBM 2007 R E G I S T R A T I O N IS NOW O P E N !**********************************************************************************
Registration for LBM 2007 is now open. Please go to the LBM 2007 website at http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/ <http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/> and register and book your accommodation.
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Important Dates
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Hotel reservation deadline: November 15, 2007
Early registration deadline: November 15, 2007
Panel Discussion: December 7, 2007
Banquet: December 6, 2007Symposium: December 6-7, 2007
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Table of Contents
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1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore
2. Organizing Committee
3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline
4. Lists of Accepted Papers
5. Acceptance Rates
6. Invited Speeches
7. Panel Discussion
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1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore
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The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) will be held at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore, located near the Ministry ofEducation and on 30 Biopolis Street. The symposium banquet will take place on Thursday 6 December. The participants to LBM2007 are also welcome at the banquet for the International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW), as well as for the conference itself, to be held on December 3-5 back-to-back with LBM 2007.
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2. Organizing Committee
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Steering Committee
See-Kiong Ng, I2R, Singapore
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore
General Chairs
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore
Programme Committee Chairs
Christopher J. O. Baker, I2R, Singapore
Su Jian, I2R, Singapore
Local Organizing Chair
Rajaraman Kanagasabai, I2R, Singapore
Programme Committee
Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
Vlad Bajic, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain
Anita Burgun, Universite de Rennes, France
Werner Ceusters, Buffalo NY, USA
Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA
Rebholz Dietrich, EMBL-EBI, UK
Julian Gough, University of Bristol, UK
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE, USA
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK
Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, USA
Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Jinah Park, Information & Communications University, Korea
Tom Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine, USA
Jasmin Saric, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Neil Sarkar, Woods Hole, USA
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany
Donia Scott, Open University, UK
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada
Margaret Anne Storey, University Victoria, Canada
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Manchester, UK
Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Spain
W. John Wilbur, NIH, USA
Rene Witte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada
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3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline
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The deadline for conference-rate reservation in the Swissotel the Stamford has been extended to November 15, 2007. After this date the hotel can guarantee neither the accommodation nor the prices.For more information about the accommodation and reservations see page http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Registration.htm . Please note that the delegates to LBM2007 can reserve their rooms by November 15, though the room reservations form for the hotel states that it should be sent before "07 November, 2007".
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4. Lists of Accepted Papers
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Please see the lists of papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations and papers being accepted forshort oral presentations at: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/AcceptedPapers.htm.
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5. Acceptance Rates
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Here are the numbers of submissions, accepted papers and counted acceptance rates:
Papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations: 25.5% (12 out of 47)
Papers for short oral presentations: 31.4% (11 out of 35)
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6. Invited Speeches
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Three invited speeches will be offered at the symposium. The abstract andthe short biography of each invited speaker is available at: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Speakers.htm.
Invited Speakers:
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK)
Patrick Lambrix (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)
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7. Panel Discussion
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The panel discussion will be offered on the second day of the symposium.
Title: Biomedical Languae and Biomedical Knowledge: Emerging Synergies
Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Panelists: Invited Speakers
