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CALL FOR PAPERS - APBC 2008
The Sixth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2008,
will be held in Kyoto, Japan, during 14-17 January 2008.
See http://bic.kyoto-u.ac.jp/apbc2008/index.html
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The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an annual
forum for exploring research, development, and novel
applications bioinformatics. The aim of this conference is to
bring together researchers, professionals, and industrial
practitioners for interaction and exchange of knowledge and ideas.
We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues
of bioinformatics.

Key Information
High-throughput sequencing and functional genomics technologies
have given us a human genome sequence and have enabled large-scale
genotyping and gene expression profiling of human populations.
Databases containing large numbers of sequences, polymorphisms, and
gene expression profiles of normal and diseased tissues in different
clinical states are rapidly being generated for human and model
organisms. Bioinformatics is thus rapidly growing in importance in
the understanding of the interplay between genes and proteins,
in the analysis of the genetic variability of species, etc. The aim of
this conference is to bring together researchers, professionals, and
industrial practitioners for interaction and exchange of knowledge
and ideas. We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical
issues of bioinformatics.

Topics of Interest
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Sequence Analysis
- Motif Finding
- Recognition of Genes
- RNA Analysis
- Physical and Genetic Mapping
- Evolution and Phylogeny
- Protein Structure Analysis
- Microarray Design
- Transcriptome, Gene Expression
- Proteomics
- Pathways, Networks and Systems
- Ontologies
- Databases and Data Integration
- Text Mining
- Population Genetics/SNP/Haplotyping
- Comparative Genomics, Genome Rearrangements
- Applications

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers 20 July 2007 ***
Notification of paper acceptance 17 September 2007
Submission of posters 30 September 2007
Camera-ready copy & Author registration 30 September 2007
Notification of poster acceptance 20 October 2007
Conference 14-17 January 2008

Conference chair
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University

Program committee co-chairs
Alvis Brazma, European Bioinformatics Institute
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo

Keynote speakers
Andreas Dress, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology
Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
APBC2008 invites high-quality original papers on any topic
related to Bioinformatics. Papers should be no more than 10 pages
in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series
Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (instructions
available at the APBC2008 website). Papers will be
judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity.
Authors should submit a PDF file according to the instructions on the
APBC2008 Paper Submission Website. The full paper must be
submitted by 20 July 2007.
The proceedings will be published as a volume in the series
Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology by Imperial College Press.
Expanded version of the best papers will be invited for publication
in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Inclusion of a paper in the proceedings is contingent on one of the
authors registering and presenting at the conference.