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Call for Papers

2010 IEEE International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM10)

Hong Kong, China, Dec. 18-21, 2010
http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/BIBM2010/

IEEE BIBM 2010 provides a general forum for disseminating the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It brings together academic and industrial scientists from computer science, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics. Hong Kong is a vibrant business city with many attractions and a distinctive culture.

Journal special issues: we have published 4 special issues in 4 SCI indexed journals from the selected papers in IEEE BIBM09 and IEEE BIBM08 respectively (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2009), IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2008), BMC Bioinformatics (2008, 2009), AI in Medicine (2008, 2009), International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2008, 2009). In BIBM 2010, we will continue this tradition. So far we have confirmed 4 special issues publications with International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, AI in Medicine, and one more special issue with IEEE Transactions on related topics is under negotiation.

We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics and biomedicine. New computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining; text analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases; data modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph algorithms; linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data visualization; parallel computation; data integration; modeling and simulation and heir application in life science domain are especially encouraged Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

1. Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution: a. Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics; b. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics; c. SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS; d. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions

2. Computational Systems Biology: a. Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis; b. Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway Analysis; c. Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics; d. Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation analysis

3. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics: a. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic Health Record; b. Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis; c. Genome-Phenome Analysis; d. Biomarker Discovery

4. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure: a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies; b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization; c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration; d. High Performance Computing

Conference Co-Chairs:

Prof. Taesung Park
Seoul National University, Korea

Prof. Stephen Tsui
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Program Co-Chairs:

Prof. Luonan Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Prof. Michael Ng
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Prof. Limsoon Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore

BIBM Steering Committee Chair:

Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu
Drexel University, USA

Submissions:

Please submit a full-length paper (6 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here (http://www.wici-lab.org/cyberchair/bibm10/scripts/submit.php) for Latex or word). Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance.

Online Submission:

http://www.wici-lab.org/cyberchair/bibm10/scripts/submit.php

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of full papers: August 5, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance: October 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: October 29, 2010
Conference: December 18-21, 2010

Workshop proposal submission: July 5, 2010
Tutorial proposal submission: August 26, 2010
Poster submission: October 20, 2010