CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd IEEE International Conference on
Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)
Feb. 23-25, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada
Advances in high-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences, resulting in the collection of unprecedented amounts of biological and medical data. Using this data to advance our knowledge about fundamental biological processes and improve human health requires novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms. IEEE ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences.
SCOPE
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Biological modeling and simulation: Molecular and cellular modeling,
stochastic and rule-based modeling, modeling languages and systems
* Biomedical image processing: Image segmentation and classification,
visualization, functional and molecular imaging
* Biomedical data and literature mining: Data integration, knowledge
discovery from electronic medical records and scientific literature
* Computational genetic epidemiology: Linkage and association analysis,
gene-gene and gene-environment interaction modeling, genetic risk
analysis
* Computational metabolomics: Metabolomics databases, metabolite
identification, spectral analysis, metabolic network modeling
* Computational proteomics: Peptide identification and quantification,
post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions
* Databases and ontologies: Biomedical data warehouses, database
integration, biomedical ontologies and semantic web services
* Gene regulation: Regulatory motifs and modules, post-transcriptional
regulation, regulatory networks
* Genome analysis: Genome assembly, genome annotation, comparative
genomics, metagenomics
* Health Informatics: Medical data management and privacy, medical
recommender systems, therapy optimization
* High-performance bio-computing: Cloud and grid computing, advanced
multi-core, GPU, and FPGA biomedical applications
* Immunoinformatics: Epitope prediction, vaccine design, immune system
simulators
* Molecular evolution: Models of evolution, reconstruction of
phylogenetic trees and networks, comparative genomics
* Population genomics: Haplotype and recombination analysis, structural
genomic variation, signatures of natural selection
* Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, motif discovery,
sequence search and clustering
* Structural bioinformatics: RNA and protein structure prediction and
classification, molecular docking, RNA and protein design
* Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology, multi-scale
modeling, biological networks, synthetic biology
* Transcriptomics: Microarray and sequencing-based transcriptome
profiling, novel transcript discovery, alternative splicing,
non-coding RNA analysis
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF format by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs12. Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting and should not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We expect to have three keynote speeches and 10 invited speeches
KEY DATES
Abstract submission: Dec. 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Jan. 25, 2012
Camera-ready version and
author registration: Feb. 2, 2012
STEERING COMMITTEE
Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State U.)
Reda A. Ammar (U. of Connecticut)
Tao Jiang (U.C. Riverside)
Vipin Kumar (U. of Minnesota)
Ming Li (U. of Waterloo)
S. Rajasekaran (U. of Connecticut), Chair
John Reif (Duke University)
Sartaj Sahni (U. of Florida)
GENERAL CHAIRS
Sorin Istrail (Brown University)
S. Rajasekaran (U. of Connecticut)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Irina Astrovskaya
David A. Bader
Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo
Titus Brown
Doina Caragea
Kun-Mao Chao
Matthias Chung
Matteo Comin, University of Padova
Juan Cui
Ovidiu Daescu
Bhaskar Dasgupta, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jorge Duitama
Richard Edwards
Scott Emrich
Oliver Eulenstein
Guillaume Fertin, University of Nantes
Vladimir Filkov
Liliana Florea
Martin Frith
Osamu Gotoh
Katia Guimaraes
Robert Harrison
Matthew He
Steffen Heber
Manuela Helmer-Citterich, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Yongsheng Huang
Hasan Jamil
Lars Kaderali
Ananth Kalyanaraman
Yury Khudyakov
Henry Lin
Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside
Bin Ma
Ion Mandoiu, U. of Connecticut, co-chair
Leonardo Marino-Ramirez
Niranjan Nagarajan
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Andrei Paun
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, co-chair
Teresa Przytycka, NCBI/NIH
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
Ben Raphael
Daniel Schwartz
Russell Schwartz
Joao Setubal, University of Sao Paulo
John Spouge, NCBI/NIH, co-chair
Ileana Streinu
Raj Sunderraman
Wing-Kin Sung
Vishal Thapar
Kannan Tharakaraman
Jerzy Tiuryn
Todd Treangen
Ugo Vaccaro, University of Salerno
Matthew Vaughn
Jianxin Wang
Li-San Wang
Fang Xiang Wu
Yuzhen Ye
Yanbin Yin
Shaojie Zhang
FINANCE CHAIR
Reda A. Ammar (U. of Connecticut)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Martin Schiller (U. of Nevada LV)
