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> 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
> 
> AlCoB 2015
> 
> Mexico City, Mexico
> 
> August 4-6, 2015
> 
> Organized by:
> 
> Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
> School of Sciences
> Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS)
> Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering
> National Autonomous University of Mexico
> 
> Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
> Rovira i Virgili University
> 
> http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/
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> AIMS:
> 
> AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and
> graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in
> biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and
> structure prediction.
> 
> The conference will address several of the current challenges in
> computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling
> sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the
> genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and
> comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
> inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
> 
> Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be
> reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
> 
> VENUE:
> 
> AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the
> Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will
> be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
> 
> SCOPE:
> 
> Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
> limited to:
> 
> Exact sequence analysis
> Approximate sequence analysis
> Pairwise sequence alignment
> Multiple sequence alignment
> Sequence assembly
> Genome rearrangement
> Regulatory motif finding
> Phylogeny reconstruction
> Phylogeny comparison
> Structure prediction
> Compressive genomics
> Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
> Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification,
> differential analysis .
> Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics,
> metatranscriptomics ...
> Microbiome analysis
> Systems biology
> 
> STRUCTURE:
> 
> AlCoB 2015 will consist of:
> 
> invited lectures
> peer-reviewed contributions
> 
> INVITED SPEAKERS:
> 
> Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca),
> From Curation of Information to Knowledge Encoding
> 
> Gaston Gonnet (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich),
> Human-Dog-Mouse, Probably and Provable Non-trivial Evolution Close to the
> Root of the Mammalian Clade
> 
> Peter D. Karp (SRI International, Menlo Park), Algorithms for Metabolic
> Route Search and Determination of Reaction Atom Mappings
> 
> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
> 
> Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda,
> USA)
> Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
> Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
> Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada)
> Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China)
> Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA)
> Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
> Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda,
> USA)
> Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan)
> Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
> Martien Groenen (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
> Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK)
> Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
> Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
> Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)
> Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA)
> Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
> Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
> Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
> Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
> Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
> Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen,
> Germany)
> B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
> Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
> Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
> Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
> Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK)
> Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
> Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
> Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki,
> Greece)
> Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
> David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City,
> Mexico)
> Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
> Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA)
> Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
> Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
> Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain)
> Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
> Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
> Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)
> Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA)
> Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
> Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
> Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
> Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
> Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
> 
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
> 
> Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
> Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City)
> Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
> David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair)
> Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
> 
> SUBMISSIONS:
> 
> Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
> original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
> pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should
> be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS
> series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
> 
> Submissions have to be uploaded to:
> 
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015
> 
> PUBLICATIONS:
> 
> A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will
> be available by the time of the conference.
> 
> A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
> peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers
> contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
> 
> REGISTRATION:
> 
> The registration form can be found at:
> 
> http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php
> 
> DEADLINES:
> 
> Paper submission: March 2, 2015 (23:59 CET)
> Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015
> Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015
> Early registration: April 19, 2015
> Late registration: July 21, 2015
> Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015
> 
> QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
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> POSTAL ADDRESS:
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> AlCoB 2015
> Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
> Rovira i Virgili University
> Av. Catalunya, 35
> 43002 Tarragona, Spain
> 
> Phone: +34 977 559 543
> Fax: +34 977 558 386
> 
> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
> 
> National Autonomous University of Mexico
> Rovira i Virgili University
> 
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