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***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine***
hosted by CIBB 2018 <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/>, 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
6-8 September 2018, Caparica, Portugal
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Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
analysis of robustness of cellular networks
biomedical model parameterization
cancer progression models
clinical image analysis
emergent properties in complex biological systems
flux balance analysis
metabolic engineering
metabolic pathway analysis
model verification and refinement methods
models of neural activity
multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems
parameter estimation methods
personalized models
reverse engineering of reaction networks
software tools for systems biology
spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2018
Acceptance notification: 9 July 2018
Author registration due: 20 July 2018
Camera ready due: 29 July 2018
Conference: 6-8 September 2018
PROCEEDINGS
Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph.
We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions).
PAPER SUBMISSION
Instructions for submission can be found here <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/pages/call-papers>
SESSION CHAIRS
Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Marzia Di Filippo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dario Pescini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
CONTACT
Chiara Damiani, PhD
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca
mail: chiara.damiani from unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani from unimib.it>
phone: +39 02 64487918
