>>> EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Advanced Signal/Image Processing Techniques for Bioinformatics Call for Papers The success of bioinformatics in recent years has been prompted by the advanced signal processing technologies, in particular, estimation theory, classification, pattern recognition, information theory, networks, imaging, image processing, coding theory, and speech recognition. For example, Fourier analysis methods are used to elucidate the relationship between sequence structure and function; wavelet analysis methods have been applied in sequence comparison and classification; and various image processing methods have been developed to improve microarray image quality. The development of advanced high-throughput technologies, such as genome sequencing and whole genome expression analysis, creates new opportunities and poses new challenges to the signal processing community. It provides an interesting application domain for signal processing that analyzes data for life science problems such as time series simulation and prediction, casual modeling, and structure prediction. It is drawing a growing interest from the signal processing community. The goal of this special issue is to present cutting-edge signal processing methods with applications to bioinformatics. While such research is of interdisciplinary nature, this special issue will focus on computational aspects of bioinformatics research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Tracking in fluorescent imaging o Protein folding and protein structure analysis o Superposition methods for protein structure comparison o Multiple 3D protein structure alignment o Protein structure classification o Protein secondary structure prediction o Microarray image analysis o Data mining from microarrays o Sequence analysis o Gene and regulatory signal discovery o Biological system pathways and networks Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/ Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript tracking system at journal's web site, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due May 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification September 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due December 1, 2005 Publication Date 1st Quarter, 2006 GUEST EDITORS: Xue-wen Chen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7621, USA; xwchen@ku.edu Sun Kim, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7000, USA; sunkim@bio.informatics.indiana.edu Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA; vladimir@cs.rutgers.edu David Casasent, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA; casasent@ece.cmu.edu <<< Please visit http://asp.hindawi.com/ for more information about the journal. Request a free sample copy of the journal at the journal's web site. EURASIP JASP publishes as many issues as required based on the flow of high-quality manuscripts and current scheduled special issues. To submit a proposal of a special issue, please contact the journal's editor-in-chief. In order not to receive any future "EURASIP JASP" alert messages, please click on the following link: http://alert.hindawi.com/remove.asp?j=asp&e=dolinsky@gsu.by >>>