Call for Papers
ITCC 2004
International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
http://www.itcc.info
Special Track on
Information Technology in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Computing
The Orleans, Las Vegas, NV, April 5 -7, 2004
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Submission deadline: November 17th, 2003
Context and Objectives
Biology and Biomedicine have become increasingly data-driven
sciences. The researchers in this area are producing vast quantities
of data daily from sources such as clinical trials, statistics,
population genetics, imaging, gene sequencing, gene expression
analysis, and protein identification projects. These data enable the
creation of enormous digital libraries. This data is unique in the
sense that it combines enormity with fine granularity. The rate of
accumulation of this data has far exceeded our capacity to analyze
it and discover novel and significant knowledge embedded in it using
non-automated means. This has led to the evolution of a new-fangled
area of multi-disciplinary research, termed Bioinformatics, defined
as the science of storing, extracting, organizing, analyzing,
interpreting and utilizing information from biological sequences and
molecules. Biomedical Informatics deals with algorithms and routines
that have general applicability and that form the basis for the
evolving information technology research in biomedical sciences and
related disciplines. This track focuses on the techniques and
methodologies which give rise to design and development of
information technology routines for applications in Bioinformatics
and/or Biomedical Informatics.
The topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Bioinformatics:
- Algorithms for Microarray Analysis
- Computational Protein Structure prediction and Analysis
- Data Mining for Bioinformatics applications
- Functional Genomics
- High Performance Computing
- Machine learning
- Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology
- Pattern Recognition and Sequence Alignment
- Regulatory Networks
- String and graph algorithms for Bioinformatics
Biomedical Computing:
- Mining biomedical databases
- Heterogeneous Data Integration
- Storage and access structures for biomedical data
- Biological and biomedical data modeling
- Information Retrieval from Biomedical data Sources
- Scientific Visualization
- Automated text categorization and authority determination
- Mining techniques for emerging imaging types
Publication
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Authors should submit
original, unpublished papers containing contributions of theoretical
or experimental nature. Papers will be published in ITCC 2004
Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will be considered for
Journal publication.
Submit your papers (up to 8 pages, in the IEEE Proceedings
format) electronically through
http://www.softconf.com/start/ITCC2004/submit.html
The accepted electronic formats are PS, PDF and MS WORD.
Information on the final manuscript submission will be provided
later.
Further help on submission is available at
http://www.ee.unlv.edu/~it/Files/start/how-to-submit.html
Track co-chairs:
Bioinformatics: Dr. Sumeet Dua (sdua at coes.latech.edu)
Biomedical Computing: Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan (alp at cse.uta.edu)
Important Deadlines:
October 17, 2003Paper submission
November 14, 2003Notification of Acceptance
December 19, 2003Camera-ready Copies Due
Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
416 Yates St., 306 Nedderman Hall
Arlington, TX 76019-0015
Voice: (817)-272-3334
Fax: (817)-272-3784
Email: alp at cse.uta.edu
URL: http://ranger.uta.edu/~alp
Dr. Sumeet Dua
Computer Science Program,
Louisiana Tech University
223 Nethken Hall, 600 W. Arizona Avenue,
Ruston, LA 71272
Voice: (318)-257-2830
Fax: (318)-257-4922
Email: sdua at coes.latech.edu
URL: http://www.latech.edu/~sdua
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