WRSBS 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Robustness and Stability of Biological Systems and Computational Solutions

In several research areas, such as computational biology, problems are modeled using a mathematical optimization criteria, such as likelihood under a model. In many situations, the configuration of the solution is at least as important as the objective value. This effect is more visible in covering and tree reconstruction problems where a parsimony or likelihood object is being optimized and there may be several optimal solutions to a problem. While the optimization criteria provide a goodness measure based on the model, they tend to ignore the stability in the structure of the solution. In some areas, such questions have been tackled using tools like bootstrapping and jackknifing. Instances of such problems, typically, do not represent the complete picture. As a consequence, the algorithms make the best use of the input.
Our goal is to bring together researchers from these, and other areas of computational biology where techniques are being developed to study and stability of biological systems and computational solutions. Further, we wish to raise awareness to the issues of stability in all areas of biology.
We invite original technical contributions, including position papers in all areas of bioinformatics, including but not limited to:
Systems Biology
Protein & RNA Structure
Comparative Genomics, Population & Cancer Genomics
Algorithms for Sequence Analysis
Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies
Papers should describe original, unpublished, high quality research, properly placing the work in the context of the state of the art, and clearly indicating the work's innovative aspects and contributions to the field. Authors may submit papers upto 7 pages in length in ACM journal format.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. All submitted papers will be reviewed by WSRBS's technical program committee. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. Authors of selected papers may be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit an online ACM Copyright Form. Authors will be contacted by ACM requesting this information.
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to stability and bioinformatics, originality, significance, and clarity.