CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop Proposals
BIOCOMP'08
The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
ACADEMIC SPONSORS: Research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin,
University of Iowa, and others (see below).
You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a workshop). All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.
BIOCOMP'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008. The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).
The last set of conferences (BIOCOMP and its affiliated events) had
research contributions from 82 countries and had attracted about
2,000 participants. It is anticipated to have over 2,000
participants for the 2008 event.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
O Gene regulation
O Gene expression databases
O Gene pattern discovery
O Gene identification
O Genetic network modeling and inference
O Gene expression analysis
O Biomedical engineering
O Microarrays
O Molecular dynamics and simulation
O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly
O Molecular sequence databases
O Molecular structure databases
O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
O Sequence analysis and alignment
O Cheminformatics
O Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
O Software tools for computational biology and bioinformatics
O Comparative genomics
O Protein modeling
O Molecular interactions
O Metabolic modeling and pathways
O Evolution and phylogenetics
O Macromolecular structure prediction
O Proteomics
O Protein folding and fold recognition
O Medical informatics
O Epidemic models
O Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
O Pattern classification and recognition
O Structural and functional genomics
O Amino acid sequencing
O Stochastic modeling
O Bio-ontologies
O Computational drug discovery
O Graph theory and bioinformatics
O Biological databases and information retrieval
O Biological data visualization
O Biological data integration
O Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
O Experimental studies and results
O Application of computational intelligence in medicine and
biological sciences (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic,
and evolutionary computing).
O High-performance computing as applied to natural and medical sciences
O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
O Other aspects and applications relating to technological
advancements in medicine and biological sciences.
O Applications
Web address of BIOCOMP'08 (currently under construction):
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/biocomp08
CO-CHAIRS AND VICE-CHAIRS:
Prof. H. R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
(email: [log in to unmask] - Tel: (706) 542-3480)
Dr. Jack Y. Yang, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Mary Qu Yang, National Human Genome Research Institute, National
Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
PURPOSE / HISTORY:
BIOCOMP'08 is part of WORLDCOMP'08. WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint conferences.
Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate
to have over 2,000 attendees from over 82 countries participating in
the 2008 event.
The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
topics into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a
common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of
ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used
to form these WORLDCOMP/BIOCOMP annual conferences facilitates
communication among researchers from all over the world in different
fields. Both inward research and outward research (multi-disciplinary,
inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the
conference.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 ([log in to unmask]). email
submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their papers for publication.)
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of
the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, BIOCOMP'08).
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content of the paper.
Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
independent of the conference program committee. The referees'
evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the track.
The track chairs will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready
papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors:
--> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/
--> Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/
--> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
http://www.msi.umn.edu/
--> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
http://bioinformatics.bioen.uiuc.edu/
--> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.bio-miblab.org/
--> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/
--> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA
http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/
--> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/
--> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
--> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/
--> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/
--> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
http://www.und.edu
--> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
http://www.isibm.org/
--> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
--> Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems
Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
http://wmn.csie.ntpu.edu.tw/isatc/
--> IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC)
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/
--> IEEE Task force of Ubiquitous Intelligent Computing of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
http://www.ieee-cis.org/technical/isatc/
Corporate Co-Sponsors:
--> Google, Inc.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html
--> NIIT Technologies
http://www.niit-tech.com/
Other Co-Sponsors:
--> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
http://www.hpcnano.org
--> International Technology Institute (ITI)
http://www.itiworld.org/
--> GridToday
http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html
--> HPCwire
http://www.hpcwire.com/
--> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
computer security; and bioinformatics.) Those interested in joining
the Program Committee of BIOCOMP'08 should email H. R. Arabnia
([log in to unmask]) the following information: Name, affiliation
and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
biography together with research interests.
Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
departments, deans and provosts.
LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:
BIOCOMP will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega
hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions,
including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River,
wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a
number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference
attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance
from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf
courses, ...)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb. 25, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)
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