• Paper submission due on July 13, 2012.
• Notification of paper acceptance on August 11, 2012.
   
• Poster submission due on September 14, 2012.
  
  
• Final manuscript of full paper due on Oct. 14, 2012.
• Final manuscripts are reviewed by the journal editors again and will be published late 2012.

Conference schedule: Oct. 13th, Saturday ~ Oct. 16th, Tuesday

• Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012
• Registration opens
• Satellite meetings, TGC 2012 (Translational Genomics Conference 2012), opens on Saturday.
• NGS Data Analysis Hand on Workshop
• Opening Ceremony
• Organizing committee, welcoming dinner
• Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012: 
• Registration opens
• Keynote speeches I and II
• Lunch
• Selected paper presentations (14 papers, parallel session)
• Keynote speech III and IV
• Beach Dinner Party
• Monday, Oct. 15, 2012: 
• Registration opens
• Keynote speeches V and VI
• Selected paper presentations (16 papers, parallel session)
• Lunch and Coffee Break
• Keynote speeches VII, VIII
• Awards and Closing
• Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
• General Assemby of TBC 2012
• Satellite meeting, BIOINFO 2012 by KSBSB, opens.

• Nancy J. Cox, Chicago University
• Trey Ideker, UC San Diego
• Charles Lee, Harvard University
• Janson Moore, Dartmouth University
• Maricel Kann, U. of Maryland Baltimore County
• John Quackenbush, Harvard University (TGC)
• Jessica Tenenbaum, Duke University