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*BICOB-2017** - Call for Papers***
9th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (BICOB)**
March 20 - 22, 2017**
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
*_Important Dates_***
* Paper Submission Deadline: November 30, 2016(extended)
Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2016*/
/* Pre-registration and Camera-ready Manuscripts: January 20, 2017*
*Paper submission site*:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2017
***Conference website:*http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob17/
Most research areas of bioinformatics, computational biology and medical
informatics have experienced significant advances in recent years driven
by computational techniques in bioinformatics. The 9th International
Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB) will
provide an utmost venue for researchers and practitioners in
bioinformatics to present and publish their research results and
techniques. Bioinformatics and computational biology continue to be a
vibrant research area with broadening applications and new emerging
challenges. BICOB-2017 seeks original and high quality papers in the
fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology,
medical informatics and the related areas. The conference includes a
*Best Paper Award*to be given during the conference banquet. We also
encourage work in progress and research results in the emerging and
evolutionary computational areas. Work in the computational methods
related to, or with application in, bioinformatics is also encouraged
including: computational intelligence and its application in
bioinformatics, bio-data mining and text mining, evolutionary
algorithms, nature-inspired computation, machine learning and bio-NLP,
biomedical ontology, biomathematics, modeling and simulation, pattern
recognition, data visualization, biostatistics. The topics of interest
include (and are not limited to):
*Genome analysis:*Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics and metagenomics,
genome and chromosome annotation, gene finding, alternative splicing,
EST analysis and comparative genomics.
*Sequence analysis:*Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and
clustering, next generation sequencing NGS, function prediction, motif
discovery, functional site recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.
*Phylogenetics:*Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution, comparative
biological methods, population genetics.
*Structural Bioinformatics:*Structure matching, prediction, analysis and
comparison; methods and tools for docking; protein design.
*Analysis of high-throughput biological data:*Microarrays (nucleic acid,
protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS,
proteomics, mass spectrometry. Also, query languages, interoperability,
bio-ontology and bio-data mining.
*Genetics and population analysis:*Linkage analysis, association
analysis, population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype
calling.
*Systems biology:*Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale
modeling, pathways, gene networks, transcriptomics - microarray data
analysis, proteomics, epigenomics.
*Healthcare Informatics:*healthcare data acquisition, analysis and
mining. Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information
systems.
*Computational Proteomics:*Filtering and indexing sequence databases,
Peptide quantification and identification, Genome annotations via mass
spectrometry, Identification of post-translational modifications,
Structural genomics via mass spectrometry, Protein-protein interactions,
Computational approaches to analysis of large scale Mass spectrometry
data, Exploration and visualization of proteomic data, Data models and
integration for proteomics and genomics, Querying and retrieval of
proteomics and genomics data etc.
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*Submission Procedures***
Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (in PDF format). A
full paper, including title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing
address, telephone, fax and email of the principal author, should be
submitted by***November 30, 2016***at the following web
site:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2017.The submitted
manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in
the Proceedings which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with
additional page charge). A double-column format will be used; see
template:http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf. If
you encounter any difficulties during submission or if you require
further information, please contact:isca from ipass.net <mailto:isca from ipass.net>.
*Journal Publication***
Authors of selected papers in BICOB-2017 will be invited to submit
extended version of their papers for possible publication in the*Journal
of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).*
<http://www.worldscinet.com/jbcb/>
*Indexing***
Accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus, EI, and INSPEC, and submitted
to DBLP for indexing. All BICOB-2017 Proceedings papers will be
accessible and available online at www.seachDL.org
<http://www.seachDL.org> and also will appear in Google scholar full text.
*_Conference Chair_*
Hisham Al-Mubaid
University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston, USA
+1 (281) 283-3802
Hisham from uhcl.edu <mailto:Hisham from uhcl.edu>
*_Program Co-Chairs_*
Oliver Eulenstein Qin Ding
Iowa State University, USA East Carolina University, USA
+1 (515) 294-2407 +1 (252) 328-9686
oeulenst from iastate.edu <mailto:oeulenst from iastate.edu>dingq from ecu.edu
<mailto:dingq from ecu.edu>
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*Publicity Chair*_
Nurit Haspel
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
+1 (617) 287-6414
nurit.haspel from umb.edu <mailto:nurit.haspel from umb.edu>
*Conference website *
*http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob17/*
