The Ninth q-bio Conference: Special Issue

Thanks for attending The Ninth q-bio Conference the annual conference dedicated to advancing quantitative understanding of cellular regulation

Dates: August 5-8, 2015 Place: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Deadline

submit proposals for papers by August 31, 2015.

Deadline

submit full papers by November 15, 2015.

Journal

Physical Biology

Special Issue Editors

William Mather, Virginia Tech, and Ilya Nemenman, Emory University

Dear q-bio 2015 participants

We would like to invite you to submit your work to the special issue of Physical Biology dedicated to the q-bio conference. The conference has partnered with this journal for a number of years, and you can download examples of prior special issues from the journal web page http://iopscience.iop.org/1478-3975/

Timeline

Paper proposals deadline: August 31, 2015 (see information below for details).

Full paper submission deadline: November 15, 2015.

First round of reviews completed: around February 1, 2016.

Final acceptance/rejection decisions: around May 1, 2016.

Publication: July 2016, in time for the Tenth q-bio Conference (electronic versions are planned to be released earlier).

For this special issue, we will be accepting the following types of articles:

1. Research Papers — Comprehensive, fully documented reports of original research.
2. Perspectives — Personal view on a particular research topic or discipline.
3. Tutorials — Background knowledge for an audience unfamiliar with the subject.
4. Reviews — Critical evaluations of the existing state of knowledge on a particular topic or research area.

Articles related to the topics of your presentations at the recent (2015, 2014, ...) q-bio conferences are generally suitable for submission to the special issue. However, to ensure that the special issue is balanced among the different article types, we ask that you indicate your intent to submit to the special issue to the editor by sending an email (including article type, title, author names, and a brief abstract) to the address wmather@vt.edu by August 31, 2015. You will receive a preliminary assessment of suitability of the proposed paper for the Special Issue within a few days after your email. The final submission will then be due by November 15, 2015.

Technical instructions for paper submission will be given to authors after their abstract has been approved.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the Special Issue.

Sincerely,

William Mather (wmather@vt.edu)

Ilya Nemenman (ilya.nemenman@emory.edu)

q-bio Special Issue Editors