TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest will include but will be not limited to: Data management and analysis of omics data o Pre-processing and analysis of omics data o Pre-processing and analysis for next generation sequencing data o Pattern extraction from omics data o Software environments for proteomics and genomics workflows o Exploration and visualization of omics data o Data models and integration for proteomics and genomics o Querying and retrieval of omics data o Knowledge management, text mining and ontologies for proteomics and genomics o Parallel and Grid-based methods for proteomics and genomics o Service Oriented approaches for Life Sciences applications o Standards in proteomics and genomics o Cloud computing in bioinformatics Applications of Genomics and Proteomics in Clinical Practice o Biomarker discovery (identification of molecular targets for early detection, prognosis and treatment of diseases) o Technologies and data models for phenotype, genotype and proteotype data o Integration and analysis of omics and medica l data for clinical applications o Data quality and provenance o Biomedical Images analysis IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due January 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance March 15, 2012 Final camera-ready paper due April 10, 2012 Pre-registration deadline April 10, 2012 CBMS symposium days June 20-22 2012