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Please note: The Automatica submission site is now configured to receive papers for the special issue!! ************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS for an Automatica Special Issue on Systems Biology ************************************************* The control community has made significant contributions to the field of systems biology, bringing rigorous tools from dynamic systems, feedback, modeling and robustness analysis. These contributions range from elegant theories to explain principles of regulation, to more technological developments that advance the state of treatments and therapies. The field has reached a certain level of maturity in both tools and applications that make the timing opportune for a special issue capturing its current state of development. Accordingly, this special issue of Automatica will address the state of the art in theories, tools, and applications of control to systems biology. Among the topics to be covered in the special issue are: - Robustness in gene regulatory networks - Information processing in signal transduction cascades - Control architectures that shed light on biological regulation _ Multiple scales of length and time in biophysical networks - Network inference and problems of model identification - Synchronization phenomena in coupled oscillators at the cellular and subcellular level - Control principles that led to novel approaches to drug target identification - Novel approaches to biomarkers in complex biophysical models - Applications of control principles to specific disease problems (with clinical or experimental studies) High quality papers on topics listed above, or related ones, are invited for publication in the Special Issue. The timetable is: Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010 Tentative Publication Date: March 2011 The Special Issue will be prepared by a team consisting of guest editor, Francis J. Doyle III, and Automatica Editor Frank Allgöwer. Prospective authors should submit their contributions by February 1, 2010 via the Automatica web-based paper handling system, available at http://www.autsubmit.com. Submissions can be in either full paper format or brief paper format. They should be submitted as a Special Issue Paper to Special Issue Corresponding Editor Frank Doyle. The submission site is open starting October 2009. Frank Allgower Automatica Editor for Process and Computer Control