The speciality of WCSB is that the papers of all accepted talks and posters will be published in a special series of refereed proceedings. Therefore, all prospective authors are first asked to submit a title and abstract (max. 120 words) of their research (see schedule below). Based on the abstracts, the scientific committee will then decide which abstracts will be extended as four page papers in the proceedings.

Abstract instructions

• Please submit your 120-word (maximum) abstract for a poster or contributed talk by January 15, 2009 by sending email (remove the nospam part) to wcsb09@cs.tut.fi.nospam. Please state in the 'Title' field: Abstract submission for WCSB 2009. Please give the following information in the actual message: Name of the author(s), postal address(es), email address(es), title, and 120-word abstract. The scientific committee will then meet and all authors will be informed on the decision (reject/accept) accordingly by January 31.

Paper instructions

• Papers for publication in the proceedings (the four page papers) should be submitted in PDF format by March 15, 2009 by sending email (remove the nospam part) to wcsb09@cs.tut.fi.nospam. Please state in the 'Title' field: Paper submission for WCSB 2009. Subsequently each paper will receive comments from peer reviewers and notification on having either a contributed talk or poster presentation. Final, i.e. camera-ready, papers are expected by April 30, 2009. At least one registration fee is required per accepted paper and one TICSP Copyright Form needs to be sent. See more information about the copyright below.
• Papers should be maximum 4 pages in 2-column format (including illustrations and references).
• Papers should be formatted according to the specifications and style templates below:
  • PDF
  • Latex: style, example, example figure
  • Bibtex: file, example
  • Microsoft Word: style, template
• Submitted papers should be in PDF format. Colour illustations are not accepted.
• Name of the author(s), postal address(es), and email address(es) should be included in the paper.
• Papers should also have an abstract included, just around 100 words.
• The figures and tables should be placed as the upmost items on each page. This is desirable, while not always possible. In particular, try to avoid the style where your figures are scattered here and there and the text becomes fragmented.

Copyright

• Prospective authors are requested acquaint themselves with TICSP Copyright and Licence Agreement and download, fill out, sign, and send by fax or mail the TICSP Copyright Form by April 30, 2009. Use Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology (WCSB 2009) as the title of the publication.