CIBB 2008
                FIFTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS
          IIASS - Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy)
                     3-4 October, 2008
  Conference Website: http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/                   


The main goal of the CIBB meetings is to provide a forum open to researchers
from different disciplines to present and discuss problems concerning
computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical
informatics with a particular focus on Neural Networks, Machine Learning,
Fuzzy Logic, and Evolutionary Computation methods.

CIBB 2008 is jointly organized by:
 * INNS - International Neural Network Society,  SIG Bioinformatics 
 * ISCB International Society for Computational Biology
 * GNCS Gruppo Nazionale Calcolo Scientifico
 * SIREN - Italian Neural Networks Society
 * DISI - Univ. Genova (Italy)
 * DMI - Univ. Salerno (Italy)

Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2008 include, but are not limited to:
    * Sequence analysis, promoter analysis and identification of transcription
factor binding sites
    * Gene expression data analysis
    * Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data
    * Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
    * Methods for the functional classification of genes
    * Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of
structures discovered in bio-molecular data
    * Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
    * Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
    * Methods for comparative genomics
    * Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
    * Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems
    * Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics
    * Bio-molecular databases and data mining
    * Algorithms for pharmacogenetics
    * Bio-medical text mining and imaging
    * Methods for diagnosis and prognosis
    * Software tools for bioinformatics

Prof. Giuseppe Russo of Temple Univ, Philadelphia (PA-USA)  has confirmed
to deliver an invited talk at CIBB 2008.

The scientific program will include, besides some plenary talks, contributed
papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions.

Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference
proceedings. A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2008 will be
published a in post conference volume printed by an international
publisher. Moreover, a selection of more relevant papers will be considered
for publication in extended form in a special issue of a scientific journal we
are planning.

Chairs:
Francesco Masulli, Università di Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri,  Università di Salerno, Italy
Gennady M. Verkhivker, University of Kansas, KS, USA, and University of
California San Diego, CA, USA

Scientific Program Committee:
Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
Antonio Giordano, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Emmanuel Ifeachor, University of Plymouth, UK
Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
Giancarlo Mauri,University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Oleg Okun, University of Oulu, Finland
Giulio Pavesi, University of Milan, Italy
David Alejandro Pelta, University of Granada, Spain
Graziano Pesole, University of Bari, Italy
Leif E. Peterson, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA
Volker Roth, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Giuseppe Russo,  Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Italy
Giorgio Valle, University of Padua, Italy
Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
(list to be updated)

Steering Commitee:
Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri,  University of Salerno, Italy

Important Dates:
Special Session Proposals: 15 May 2008
Paper submission deadline: 30 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2008
Final paper due: 1 September  2008
Conference: 3-4 October 2008

Special sessions:
Special sessions proposals including  session's title and  scope, short cv of
sessions chairs, preliminary  list of papers  (titles and authors) are due by
May 15 2008. Proposals of special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they
will be submitted. Please, send the proposals to cibb2008chair [at] disi [dot] unige [dot] it

Paper submission:
Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the CIBB web
site and cannot be longer than 10 pages. The submission of papers  will be
done by uploading their PDF version on the CIBB web site.