Papers and presentations are sought in all areas that relate to biomolecular computing, including, but not restricted to: algorithms and models for computation on biomolecular systems; computational processes in vitro and in vivo; molecular switches, gates, devices, and circuits; molecular folding and self-assembly of nanostructures; analysis and theoretical models of laboratory techniques; molecular motors and molecular robotics; studies of fault-tolerance and error correction; software tools for analysis, simulation, and design; synthetic biology and in vitro evolution; applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE


Selected full papers from track A will be considered for a special issue in the journal Natural Computing. Selected full papers from track A, aimed at a synthetic biology readership, and selected extended abstracts from track B of previously unpublished work will be considered for a special issue in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Electronic Submissions: All papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically following the instructions on this page and by following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dna21. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. The use of LATEX is strongly encouraged for Track A submissions, as it will be required for the revised manuscript included in the LNCS proceedings of accepted papers.

TRACKS

I. Submissions to be considered for oral presentations

Authors submitting a paper and/or proposal for a presentation may choose between two submission tracks. The submission page is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dna21, and will close on March 13, 2015 at 11:59pm (GMT). Submissions for oral presentations can be submitted to one of the two tracks (A) or (B).

Track A - Full Paper: For authors who want their full papers to be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions (a single .pdf file) should conform to the following guidelines: • The total length of the paper does not exceed 12 pages and is expected to be formatted in LATEX for the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please follow the formatting instructions at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
• Each paper should contain an abstract which briefly describes the primary results and their importance.
• Selected papers will be published in the proceedings, available at the conference and as part of the LNCS series. Submissions to Track A may not be previously published or simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal for publication.

Track B - One page abstract with accompanied material: Primarily for authors submitting experimental results who plan to submit to a journal rather than publish in the conference proceedings. (Abstracts for work recently submitted to or published in a journal will also be considered.) To be considered for oral presentation submissions should conform to the following guidelines:
A single .pdf file containing
* A one-page abstract: The total length of the abstract should not exceed 1 page (11 point type, single spaced, 1 inch margins). The one-page abstract must describe the primary results and their importance.
• Accompanied documentation: Authors must attach to the abstract a preliminary manuscript, a thesis chapter or some other form of supporting documentation that can be used by the program committee to evaluate the merit of the work for oral presentation.
Only the one-page abstract will appear in the supplementary proceedings at the conference. Track B papers unaccompanied by adequate documentation will not be eligible for oral presentation.


II. Poster submissions (Track (C))
For authors interested in presenting their work only in the poster session, the abstract submission can be done at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dna21. The submission deadline is May 15, 2015. All poster submissions should conform to the following guidelines:
• The total length of the abstract should not exceed 1 page (11 point type, single spaced, 1 inch margins).
• The one-page abstract should describe the primary results and their importance.




If you have any questions about the submission process, please send an email to dna21[at]easychair.org.