Full paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008
Conference proceedings will be published by
Springer in LNCS/LNBI, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://bicob.engr.uconn.edu/bicob/
1st International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
April 8-10, 2009
Holiday Inn Downtown-Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Sponsored by the International Society for
Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
Computational techniques have already enabled
unprecedented advances in modern biology and
medicine. This continues to be a vibrant research
area with broadening of computational techniques
and new emerging challenges. The Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology (BICoB) conference is
thus established by the ISCA to promote the
advancement of computing techniques and their
application to life sciences. The inaugural BICoB
conference will feature original unpublished
research in all areas of bio-informatics and
computational biology, and covering the entire
spectrum of underlying computational
techniques/models/paradigms. The conference
also includes a BEST PAPER AWARD given for a
paper presented at the conference. The topics of
interest include (and are not limited to):
• Genome analysis: Genome assembly, genome and
chromosome annotation, gene
finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative genomics.
• Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence
alignment, sequence search and
clustering, 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.
• 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.
Instructions to Authors
Papers will be accepted only by electronic
submission (PDF only). Conference proceedings
will be published by Springer in LNCS/LNBI,
Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Papers should be
formatted using Springer-Verlag format templates
(www.springer.com/lncs). A full paper, including
title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing
address, telephone, fax and email of the
principal author, should be submitted before
November 1, 2008 at the following web site:
https://secure.myhostadvantage.com/V0015065FC/con-reg/default.asp?ConID=85 .
The submitted manuscript should closely reflect
the final paper as it will appear in the
Proceedings. Maximum paper length for the proceedings is 12 pages.
Conference Chair:
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, UCONN
rajasek@engr.uconn.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
<mailto:aluru@iastate.edu>aluru@iastate.edu
Limsoon Wong, Natl. U. of Singapore
<mailto:WongLS@comp.nus.edu.sg>WongLS@comp.nus.edu.sg
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper Submission . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . . . . November 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . . . December 15, 2008
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper . . . . . . . January 10, 2009
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa St. University
Limsoon Wong, Natl. U. of Singapore
STEERING COMMITTEE
Reda A. Ammar, U.. of Connecticut
Tao Jiang, U.. of California, Riverside
Vipin Kumar, U.of Minnesota
Ming Li, U. of Waterloo
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, U. of Connecticut
John Reif, Duke University
Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Ian Greenshields, U. of Connecticut
Chun-Hsi Huang, U. of Connecticut
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Richa Agarwala, National Inst. of Health
Yutaka Akiyama, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie Mellon U.
Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Indian Inst. of Science
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan U.
Jake Chen, Indiana U.
Francis Y.L. Chin, Hong Kong U.
Bhaskar Dasgupta, U. of Illinois, Chicago
Scott J. Emrich, U. of Notre Dame
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State U.
Vladimir Filkov, U. of California, Davis
Dmitrij Frishman, Tech. Univ. of Munich
Terry Gaasterland, UCSD
Gaston Gonnet, ETH Zurich
Osamu Gotoh, Kyoto U.
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica
Ming-Yang Kao, Northwestern U.
Marek Karpinski, U. of Bonn
George Karypis, U. of Minnesota
Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan U.
Bin Ma, U. of Waterloo
Ion Mandoiu, U. of Connecticut
Shinichi Morishita, U. of Tokyo
Giri Narasimhan, Florida International U.
Enno Ohlebusch, U. of Ulm
Yi Pan, Georgia State U.
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U.
Prabakaran Ponraj, Duke U.
Mihai Pop, U. of Maryland
David Posada, U. of Vigo, Spain
Ben Raphael, Brown U.
Knut Reinert, Freie U. Berlin
Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center
Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Mona Singh, Princeton U.
Wing-Kin Sung, National U. of Singapore
Sing-Hoi Sze, Texas A&M U.
Jerzy Tiuryn, Warsaw U.
Ugo Vaccaro, U. di Salerno
Li-San Wang, U. of Pennsylvania
Yufeng Wu, U. of Connecticut
Dong Xu, U. of Missouri, Columbia
Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State U.
Mary Ann Sullivan
Executive Director, ISCA
International Society for Computers
and Their Applications
975 Walnut Street, Suite 132
Cary, NC 27511 USA
Phone: 919-467-5559
FAX: 919-467-3430
E-mail: isca@ipass.net