Student Travel Award Support for GENSIPS'13

计算系统生物学是一个开创性的研究领域，旨在利用工程系统理论的工具来理解复杂生物系统的整体功能。将这些知识转化为医学是一场革命，并将继续为疾病诊断和预后、医学治疗、疾病预防、药物发现和药物设计带来革命性的变化。该项目的目的是为参加IEEE基因组信号处理与统计研讨会（GENSIPS）的学生寻求NSF的旅行支持，该研讨会每年由IEEE信号处理学会主办。GENSIPS13的目标是：1)解决基因组学，转录组学，蛋白质组学和代谢组学等新兴“组学”领域的系统生物学问题，特别是下一代测序技术（促进平行和更快的DNA或RNA测序）；2)显著增加信号处理学会、计算机科学、生物统计学和生物科学界的参与。GENSIPS13的主题将是下一代测序和系统生物学在癌症中的应用。我们将邀请来自癌症研究和基因组研究领域的专家发言。为了扩大会议中提出的科学工作的影响范围，被接受的论文将在IEEE会议论文集上发表，并在高知名度期刊的特刊上发表精选论文。GENSIPS13的另一项重要任务是促进研究生和博士后研究人员，特别是女性和少数民族学生的参与，促进学生对系统生物学的教育。GENSIPS13将为论文质量高的合格研究生提供旅行奖励。具体来说，20-30%的奖金将用于鼓励女性和少数民族学生参加并向GENSIPS13提交论文。

Computational systems biology is a groundbreaking research area that seeks to use tools from engineering systems theory to understand the holistic functioning of a complex biological system. Translation of such knowledge into medicine is revolutionizing and will continue to revolutionize disease diagnosis and prognosis, medical therapy, disease prevention, drug discovery, and drug design. The objective of this project is to seek student travel support from NSF for the IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, or GENSIPS, a workshop sponsored annually by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.Intellectual meritOur goals for GENSIPS13 are: 1) to address the systems biology issues in the emerging "omics" fields of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, especially the next-generation sequencing technologies (which facilitate parallel and much faster sequencing of DNA or RNA); and 2) to significantly increase the participation from the Signal Processing society, and the computer science, biostatistics, and biological science communities. The theme of GENSIPS13 will be next generation sequencing and systems biology applied to cancer. We will be inviting expert plenary speakers from the cancer research and genome research fields. To broaden the reach of the scientific work presented in the meeting, accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Conference Proceedings and selected ones in special issues in high profile journals. Broader Impact Another important mission of GENSIPS13 is to promote the participation of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, especially women and minority students, and foster student education on systems biology. GENSIPS13 will provide travel awards to qualified graduate students, whose papers are deemed to be of high quality. Specifically, 20-30% of the awards will be allocated to encourage women and minority students to participate and submit papers to GENSIPS13.