Dear Colleagues,

We would like to inform you about the extended deadline for submissions to the Computers and Graphics Journal (C&G) Special Section on Molecular Graphics and Visual Analysis of Molecular Data.

Important Dates

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Submission deadline: 31.1.2021 new: 22.2.2021
First decision notification: 28.2.2021 new: 22.3.2021
Final decision notification: 30.4.2021 new: 17.5.2021
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Please note that the above deadlines are the latest possible. In accordance with the CnG standards, we ensure that the authors will receive the first notification within a month from the actual submission if they decide to submit earlier. All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed by at least three experts. You can find the complete author guidelines at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors.

We solicit several types of submissions:

Journal paper submissions presenting original work within the scope described below.
Survey papers discussing the state-of-the-art topics relevant to MolVA Workshop (tinyurl.com/molva).

Extended and revised versions of full papers, short papers, and surveys that were accepted only for presentation at the MolVA 2021.

The papers might be accepted either as journal publications or conference-only publications. The journal publications will be published directly in Computers and Graphics journal, while the conference-only papers will be published in EG Digital Library. The conference-only publications will be offered to submit an extended version that will undergo another fully peer-reviewed process and could be still accepted as a journal publication after the workshop. After the first round of reviews, the authors will be notified about the track that was selected for their paper based on the quality of the publication and may choose to retract the paper if they do not wish to accept it. 

Please submit your contribution via Editorial Manager (Deadline: February 22, 2021):

https://www.editorialmanager.com/CAG/default.aspx

Important Note to Authors: To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Virtual Special Section, it is important that authors select “VSI: MolVA 2021”, when they reach the “Select Article Type” step in the submission process.

All accepted papers will be presented at MolVA 2021 Workshop, which will be co-located with EuroVis 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland. Therefore, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper will have to register and attend (possibly virtually) the workshop. 

Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Molecular Graphics & Rendering
• Web-based Molecular Graphics & Visualization
• Immersive Analytics approaches using, e.g., VR/AR technologies
• Visual Analysis of Molecular Data (e.g., molecular structures, biological networks and pathways, or omics data)
• Visualization of Dynamic Molecular Data & Large Molecular Systems
• Machine-learning approaches for analysis of molecular data
• Tools papers describing new molecular visualization tools or novel features in existing tools

Best regards,

   Jan Byška, Michael Krone, Björn Sommer

   CaG Guest Editors

   MolVA 2021 Organizing Committee