CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifteenth International Conference
on Genome Informatics (GIW 2004)
December 13-15, 2004
Pacifico Yokohama, Japan(http://giw.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/giw2004/)

The Fifteenth International Conference on GenomeInformatics (GIW 2004) is a forum for researchers,
practitioners and users working on various aspects ofGenome Informatics. The aim is to present recent research
results (theory/practice), to demonstrate systems, and toexplore directions for future research and new applications.
SPONSORED AND ORGANIZED BY
Bioinformatics Center (Kyoto University),
Human Genome Center (University of Tokyo) andGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas“Genome Information Science” (MEXT of Japan).
Poster and Software Demonstration Session is organized andsponsored by Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi,http://www.jsbi.org/).
SCOPE
GIW is the longest running international bioinformatics
conference, which provides unique opportunities
thatbridge theory and experiments, academia and industry, andEast and West. Its scope includes all work that is ultimately
devoted to the computational understanding of biologicalsystems on a molecular basis.
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINESAuthors are requested to submit full papers around 10 pages
in PS file or PDF file or Plain text to: (electronic submissiononly):
Address: giw-sub@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Deadline: August 23, 2004
The following information should be provided:(*) paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), postal ande-mail address(es),abstract,
keywords,
and thecorrespondence author name. We recommend to use theformat shown at FINAL VERSION FORMAT.
Partial support for student full papers will be also arranged
by JSBi.
DEADLINES
August 23, 2004 Paper submission deadline
October 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection
October 30, 2004 LaTeX text file final version due
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto U, Japan, PC Co-Chair)
Vladimir Brusic (Inst Infocomm Res, Singapore, PC Co-Chair)
Russ B. Altman (Stanford University, USA)
Philip E. Bourne (UC San Diego, USA)
Soeren Brunak (Technical U of Denmark, Denmark)Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Deakin U, Australia)
Darren R. Flower (Jenner Institute, UK)
Michael Gribskov (UC San Diego, USA)
Katsuhisa Horimoto (U Tokyo, Japan)
Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto U, Japan)
Hiroaki Kitano (Kitano ERATO Project, Japan)
Richard H. Lathrop (UC Irvine, USA)
Sang Yup Lee (KAIST, S. Korea)
Yixue Li (Shanghai Inst for Biological Sciences, China)
Hiroshi Mamitsuka (Kyoto U, Japan)
Osamu Maruyama (Kyushu U, Japan)

Hideo Matsuda (Osaka U, Japan)
Satoru Miyano (U Tokyo, Japan)
Gene W. Myers (UC Berkeley, USA)
Kenta Nakai (U Tokyo, Japan)
Haruki Nakamura (Osaka U, Japan)
See-Kiong Ng (Inst for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie U Sidney, Australia)
Kenji Satou (JAIST, Japan)
Christian Schönbach (RIKEN Yokohama, Japan)
Tetsuo Shibuya (U Tokyo, Japan)
Hideaki Sugawara (NIG, Japan)
Makiko Suwa (CBRC, Japan)
Toshihisa Takagi (U Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroyuki Toh (Kyoto U, Japan)
Masaru Tomita (Keio U, Japan)
Koji Tsuda (CBRC, Japan)
Hiroki R. Ueda (RIKEN, Japan)
Alfonso Valencia (U Autonoma, Madrid, Spain)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines, Paris, France)
Hidemi Watanabe (Hokkaido U, Japan)
Liping Wei (Peking U, China)
Limsoon Wong (Inst for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Ying Xu (U Georgia, USA)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (National Yang Ming U, Taiwan)
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in “Genome Informatics
Vol. 15, No. 2” (http://www.uap.co.jp/uap/New_Publi/
SERIES/GIS/GIS.html), and electronic version is availablefrom
http://www.jsbi.org/journal.html.
The acceptedpapers will be MEDLINE indexed.
CALL FOR POSTERS AND SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS
GIW 2004 has a session for posters and software
demonstrations sponsored by JSBi. For a poster/demo, a
two-page abstract in the specified format (see FINALVERSION FORMAT) should be submitted to:Address: giw-sub@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Deadline: October 10, 2004
with the information provided in (*). After review, authors
will be notified acceptance/rejection by October 27, 2004.
Abstracts of accepted posters and software demonstrations
will be compiled as “The Fifteenth International Conferenceon
GenomeInformatics,PostersandSoftware
Demonstrations”. The abstracts are NOT included in“Genome Informatics Vol. 15, No. 2”.
FINAL VERSION FORMAT
Both GIW LaTeX template and GIW MS WORD template
are available from http://giw.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/giw2004/
The authors are encouraged to use the GIW LaTeX template.
QUESTIONS
Satoru Miyano
Email: giw2004@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel: +81-3-5449-5615 / Fax: +81-3-5449-5442
Human Genome Center
Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan