Call For Papers - Deadline: May 21, 2010
BIOCOMP'10
The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
July 12-15, 2010, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
LOCATION OF BIOCOMP:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location
This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity
to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements
(authors who have already been notified that their papers have
been accepted/not-accepted should IGNORE this announcement.)
You are invited to submit a full paper (about 7 pages) for
consideration (see instructions below); full papers will be
considered for both, oral presentation and publication in the
conference proceedings (as well as consideration for various
journal special issues and book projects). Abstract submissions
(one/two-page) will be considered for poster presentations and
one/two-page publication in the proceedings.
BIOCOMP'10 will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and
dates) with WORLDCOMP'10 (The 2010 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 21, 2010: Submission of papers for evaluation
June 5, 2010: Notification of acceptance
June 21, 2010: Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(BIOCOMP'10)
July 24, 2010: Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the
Final Edition of the proceedings.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:
o Microarrays
o Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions
o Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly
o Molecular sequence and structure databases
o Computational Systems Biology
o Gene regulation
o Gene pattern discovery and identification
o Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases
o Genetic network modeling and inference
o Comparative genomics
o Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
o RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
o Biomedical engineering
o Combinatorics and bioinformatics
o Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
o Biological databases and information retrieval
o Bio-ontologies + semantics
o Biological data integration and visualization
o Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
o Pattern classification and recognition
o Sequence analysis and alignment
o Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
o Tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics
o Protein modeling
o Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition
o Metabolic modeling and pathways
o Evolution and phylogenetics
o Macromolecular structure prediction
o Medical informatics
o Epidemic models
o Structural and functional genomics
o Amino acid sequencing
o Stochastic modeling
o Cheminformatics
o Computational drug discovery
o Experimental medicine and analysis tools.
o Personalized medicine
o Cancer informatics
o Graph theory and computational biology
o Experimental studies and results
o Application of computational intelligence in drug design
o High-performance computing and applications in biology
o Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
o Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements
in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings. All papers submitted in response
to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the
Final Edition of the proceedings (publication date: late August
2010; the Final Edition of the proceedings will be shipped to
the registered authors of accepted papers after the conference).
Prospective authors are invited to submit/upload their full papers
in pdf or MS doc (about 7 pages, single spaced with the font size
of 10 or 11) to the following web site:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Full papers will be considered for both, oral presentation and
publication in the conference proceedings (as well as consideration
for various journal special issues and book projects). Abstract
submissions (one/two-page) will be considered for poster
presentations and one/two-page publication in the proceedings.
All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable. Authors of
accepted papers will later be asked to follow a particular
typing instructions to prepare their final paper for publication.
Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper
should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author. Accepted papers
will be published in the final edition of the BIOCOMP'10
proceedings (in printed ISBN book form as well as online).
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness.
In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the
conference program committee will be charged to make the final
decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help
from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process.
In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
The BIOCOMP proceedings will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others.
PLANNED TUTORIALS:
See the following web site for a partial list:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/tutorials
KEYNOTE LECTURES:
See the following web site for a partial list:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/keynotes
ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):
The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing
and Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA;
Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department
Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab., Harvard University,
Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab.,
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia,
USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Center
for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA; Medical Image HPC & Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North
Dakota, USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab.,
North Dakota State University, USA; Knowledge Management &
Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen,
Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational
Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II,
University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of Naples,
Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance
Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics &
Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l
Council on Medical & Care Compunetics; The UK Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution Ltd.;
Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud
Computing Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.
WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(BIOCOMP is an important part of WORLDCOMP; below is a partial list
of members of WORLDCOMP steering committee)
- Dr. Selim Aissi, Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability
and Virtualization, Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA
- Prof. Hamid Arabnia (Contact Person)
Coordinator, WORLDCOMP 2010, ISIBM Fellow & Professor,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing,
University of Georgia, Georgia, USA, email: [log in to unmask]
- Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
- Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication,
Director, ITRC: Intel. HCI Convergence Research Center,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology &
Transactions on Computational Science, Springer, Sungkyunkwan
University, Korea
- Prof. (Winston) Wai-Chi Fang
IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor,
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
- Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT,
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology)
and ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics), Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK
- Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF
Supported AUAS, Appalachian State University, NC, USA
- Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow,
ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
See:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The conference will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley),
Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System,
xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the
conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates photos available at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
Featured keynote speakers for 2010 are (this is a partial list;
there are 24 other keynotes/invited talks): Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Father of Fuzzy Logic) and Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars
Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA).
Caliber of BIOCOMP and WORLDCOMP:
Thanks to authors and speakers of BIOCOMP and WORLDCOMP and members
of the editorial board who informed us of the following good news:
According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative)
all tracks of WORLDCOMP (including BIOCOMP) are listed as worldwide
"Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics, including the
number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" and
specific information extracted from it from the link below:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/news
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