The 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (BICOB-2018) will be held between 19 - 21 March 2018 in
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2018 marks the 10th year anniversary of BICOB). In the
last two decades, we have witnessed significant progress and breakthroughs in
most areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. The advent of some
emerging computational fields (e.g., big data, deep learning, data science,
parallel and multicore computing) have driven the advances in bioinformatics
and enabled most areas in bioinformatics to continue to be vibrant research
area with broadening applications and new emerging challenges. In BICOB, we
provide an utmost venue for researchers and practitioners in bioinformatics to
present and publish their research results and techniques. BICOB-2018 seeks
original and high quality papers in the fields of bioinformatics, computational
biology, systems biology, medical informatics and the related areas. The
conference includes a Best Paper Award to be given during the conference
banquet. We also encourage work in progress and research results in the
emerging and evolutionary computational areas. Work in the computational
methods related to, or with application in, bioinformatics is also encouraged
including: computational intelligence and its application in bioinformatics,
bio-data mining and text mining, evolutionary algorithms, nature-inspired
computation, machine learning and bio-NLP, biomedical ontology, biomathematics,
modeling and simulation, pattern recognition, data visualization,
biostatistics. The topics of interest include (and are not limited to):
Genome analysis: Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics and metagenomics, genome
and chromosome annotation, gene finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and
comparative genomics.
Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and clustering,
next generation sequencing NGS, 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. Also, query languages, interoperability,
bio-ontology and bio-data mining.
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, transcriptomics - microarray data analysis,
proteomics, epigenomics.
Healthcare Informatics: healthcare data acquisition, analysis and mining.
Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information systems.
Computational Proteomics: Filtering and indexing sequence databases, Peptide
quantification and identification, Genome annotations via mass spectrometry,
Identification of post-translational modifications, Structural genomics via
mass spectrometry, Protein-protein interactions, Computational approaches to
analysis of large scale Mass spectrometry data, Exploration and visualization
of proteomic data, Data models and integration for proteomics and genomics,
Querying and retrieval of proteomics and genomics data etc.
Submission Procedures
Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (in PDF format). A full
paper, including title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, and
email of the principal author, should be submitted by October 31, 2017 at the
following web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2018.
The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will
appear in the Proceedings which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with
additional page charge). A double-column format will be used; see
template:sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf. If you encounter any difficulties
during submission please contact: isca@isca-hq.org.
Journal Publication:
Authors of selected papers in BICOB-2018 will be invited to submit extended
version of their papers for possible publication in the Journal of
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline October 31, 2017
Notification of Acceptance December 20, 2017
Camera-Ready Manuscript January 20, 2018
Indexing:
Accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus, EI, and INSPEC, and submitted to
DBLP for indexing. All BICOB-2018 Proceedings papers will be accessible and
available online at www.seachDL.org and also will appear in Google scholar full
text.
Conference Chair
Oliver Eulenstein
Iowa State University, USA
+1 (515) 294-2407
oeulenst@iastate.edu
Program Co-Chair
Hisham Al-Mubaid
University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
+1 (281) 283-3802
Hisham@uhcl.edu
Program Co-Chair
Qin Ding
East Carolina University, USA
+1 (252) 328-9686
dingq@ecu.edu
Publicity Chair
Nurit Haspel
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
+1 (617) 287-6414
nurit.haspel@umb.edu
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