TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is seeking original research contributions presenting innovative bioinformatics and computational biology concepts and solutions in the areas outline above. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Emerging technologies in genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and other life science areas are generating an increasing amount of complex data and information.
Traditionally, bioinformatics has been focused on the design of methods and technologies facilitating the acquisition, storage, organization, archiving, analysis and visualization of biological and medical data.
However, recent changes related to the emerging technologies have made the role of computer science (both theoretical and applied aspects) much more critical in all the bioinformatics research directions.

Computational biology, on the other hand, has emphasized mathematical and computational techniques facilitating the modelling and simulation of biomedical processes and systems.

In recent years the distinction between these two fields has become increasingly blurred.
In order to tackle the growing complexity associated with emerging and future life science challenges, bioinformatics and computational biology researchers and developers need to explore, develop and apply novel computational concepts, methods, tools and systems.

Many of these new approaches are likely to involve advanced and large-scale computing techniques, computational approaches, technologies and infrastructures such as:

High-performance architectures and systems (e.g. multicore, GPU);
Distributed computing (e.g. grid, cloud, peer-to-peer, Web services, e-infrastructures);
Computational simulation (mechanistic, stochastic, multi-model);
Algorithms (theoretical and experimental aspects);
Applied bioinformatics (analysis pipelines, tools, applications);
Artificial and computational intelligence (machine learning, agents, evolutionary techniques, bio-inspired methods).

Together, these topics cover the key bioinformatics and computational biology techniques and technologies encountered in modern life science environments:

Advanced computing architectures/infrastructures;
Algorithm design;
Data/information management and integration;
Data/information analysis and knowledge discovery;
Integration of quantitative/symbolic knowledge into executable biomedical “theories” or models.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer and life scientists to discuss emerging and future directions in these areas.



PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
The manuscripts, written in English, should be submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20200) by selecting the track “Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science”.

Submissions can be either:
- “Full paper” in proceedings (10-14 LNCS pages),
- “Short paper” in proceedings (5-7 LNCS pages),
- “Abstract only“ (in a book of abstract, but not in proceedings).

A “Poster presentation” is also available, please check a “Poster Presentation” group in the submission page.

Templates are available for download in EasyChair horizontal menu “Templates”.

Papers must be based on unpublished original work and must be submitted to ICCS only. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Copyright forms are only needed after the paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings.

The manuscripts submitted to this workshop must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. ICCS is an ERA 2010 A-ranked conference series.



WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Giuseppe, Agapito, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mario, Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mauro, Castelli, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Riccardo, Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Rodrigo, Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Italo, Zoppis, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Giuseppe, Agapito, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Stefano, Beretta, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (TIGET), Italy
Mario, Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Barbara, Calabrese, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mauro, Castelli, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Attila, Csikasz-Nagy, King’s College London/Pázmány Péter Catholic University, United Kingdom
Bhaskar, DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Riccardo, Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Ivo, Goncalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Pawel, Gorecki, University of Warsaw, Poland
Pietro Hiram, Guzzi, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Marcelo, Lobosco, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Wagner, Meira Jr., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ivan, Merelli, Institute for Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council, Italy
Yuri, Pirola, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Ela, Pustulka-Hunt, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Marinella, Sciortino, University of Palermo, Italy
Martin, Swain, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Leonardo, Trujillo, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, United States
Paolo, Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy
Pierangelo, Veltri, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Rodrigo, Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Italo, Zoppis, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Chiara, Zucco, University of Catanzaro, Italy



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