EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

La noticia de hoy está relacionada con las publicaciones científicas de libre acceso. Me ha llegado hoy de la revista EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology un mensaje sobre un «número» especial sobre information theoretic methods (métodos de teoría de la información aplicados al modelado de datos) en bioinformática. Dado el volumen de datos que se maneja actualmente en bioinformática, pienso que el número de métodos y análisis basados en la disciplina de la teoría de la información va a crecer en los próximos años, porque simplemente no habrá otra manera de sacar algo en claro. La fecha límite para enviar contribuciones para este número especial es el 1 de Febrero de 2007, y la URL es:

http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=BSB

Aunque me han llegado correos de esta revista en otras ocasiones (¿será spam bioinformático?) hasta hoy no he consultado su sitio web. En lo que llevan de año llevan publicados 2 artículos, con lo que o es una revista muy nueva o muy selecta. A continuación os incluyo el mensaje íntegro que me llegó:

EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology - An Open Access Journal

 Special Issue on

 Information Theoretic Methods for Bioinformatics

 Call for Papers

 Information theoretic methods for modeling are at the center of the
 current efforts to interpret bioinformatics data. The high pace at
 which new technologies are developed for collecting genomic and
 proteomic data requires a sustained effort to provide powerful methods
 for modeling the data acquired. Recent advances in universal modeling
 and minimum description length techniques have been shown to be well
 suited for modeling and analyzing such data. This special issue calls
 for contributions to modeling of data arising in bioinformatics and
 systems biology by information theoretic means. Submissions should
 address theoretical developments,computational aspects, or specific
 applications. Suitable topics for this special issue include but are
 not limited to:

 o Normalized maximum-likelihood (NML) universal models
 o Minimum description length (MDL) techniques
 o Microarray data modeling
 o Denoising of genomic data
 o Pattern recognition
 o Data compression-based modeling

 Authors should follow the EURASIP JBSB manuscript format described at
 the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=BSB.
 Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
 manuscript through the EURASIP JBSB's Manuscript Tracking System at
 http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable:

 Manuscript Due February 1, 2007
 Acceptance Notification May 1, 2007
 Final Manuscript Due July 1, 2007
 Publication Date 3rd Quarter, 2007

 Guest Editors:

 Jorma Rissanen, Computer Learning Research Center, University of London,
 Royal Holloway,TW20 0EX, UK; jorma.rissanen@mdl-research.org

 Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), National
 Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, P.O. Box 94079,
 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; pdg@cwi.nl

 Jukka Heikkonen, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki
 University of Technology, P.O. Box 9203, 02015 HUT, Finland;
 jukka.heikkonen@tkk.fi

 Petri Myllymaki, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki,
 P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hallstromin katu 2b), 00014, Finland;
 petri.myllymaki@cs.helsinki.fi

 Teemu Roos, Complex Systems Computation Group, Helsinki Institute for
 Information Technology, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Finland;
 teemu.roos@hiit.fi

 Juho Rousu, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki,
 P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hallstromin katu 2b), 00014, Finland;
 juho.rousu@cs.helsinki.fi

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 information about the journal. EURASIP JBSB articles are published online
 as soon as they are accepted for publication. To submit a proposal of a
 special issue, please contact the journal's editor-in-chief.