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Data Contest and Redesign Contest

This year BioVis 2013 offers participants the chance to engage in two contests. The contests are related, but independent, and will be judged with different criteria in mind. You can discuss the contests in the forum.

There is significant synergy between these topics. Every Redesign Contest entry is likely to be based in interesting design decisions, elucidation of which would make a good design-study entry for the Data Contest. Likewise, every Data Contest entry is likely to create images that are significant improvements over the original figure provided for improvement by the Redesign Contest.

We encourage participants to leverage their efforts by submitting entries to both contests. There will be significant opportunities for publication through both venues.

Data Challenge Contest

Identifying Protein Mutations and Their Discovering Their Effect on Function.

Can protein mutations be segregated by their impact on function? The data challenge contest asks you to develop a method to aid the working bio/life-sciences researcher in identifying important mutations within a larger set in a protein, provide biophysical insight into why those mutations affect function, and potentially suggest additional modifications to the protein that could be used to rescue functionality.

The contest admits entries of varied scope: from comprehensive solutions to focused treatments on specific parts of the problem. Visualization should play a central role in your proposal.

Redesign Contest

Challenging the Sequence Logo.

The redesign contest recognizes the importance of effective encodings and clear visual communication in display of complex quantitative information. It gives participants the opportunity to develop a practical replacement to the long-standing convention of sequence logos.

VIZBI 2013

Our partner-conference VIZBI is coming up. 
VIZBI will be held from March 20-22, 2013 at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Take a look at their website!: vizbi.org/

BioVis Promotional Slide

If you would like to promote BioVis at a related conference we have prepared a slide summarizing all possible forms of contribution. 

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Call for Participation

The call for participation is available online.

Contest Data and Description Available.

The data as well as the description of the 2013 BioVis contest is available. View the contest pages to understand this year's dataset and get the dataset through our forum (registration required).

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BioVis 2013 Papers & Posters

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The rapidly expanding application of experimental high-throughput and high-resolution methods in biology is creating enormous challenges for the visualization of biological data. To address these challenges, researchers in the visualization and bioinformatics communities need to engage in the design, implementation, application, and evaluation of novel visualization techniques and tools that provide insight into large and highly complex data sets.

BioVis 2013 - the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization - aims at bringing together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote the sharing of expertise, between both meeting participants and the communities at large.

The meeting is intended to educate, inspire, and engage visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. The symposium will serve as a platform for researchers from these fields to increase the impact of data visualization approaches in biology. The breadth and diversity of biological research topic areas will enable researchers from all parts of the visualization and bioinformatics communities to contribute to this effort and the symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations. 

BioVis 2013 will be taking place on 13-14 October 2013 in October 2013 in Atlanta, GA and will be co-located with IEEE VisWeek 2013. IEEE VisWeek is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, technology, and theory.

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