2008 SIWN International Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Artificial Life
Systems Biology is concerned with the systemic study of complex interactions in biological systems and provides a quantitative systemic approach to understanding complex biological phenomena. On the other hand, Artificial Life aims at the study of all phenomena characteristic of natural living systems, through methodologies of synthesis implemented in computational, robotic or other artificial architectures. Needless to say, the ultimate goal for the understanding and modeling of biological systems is at the synthesis and simulation of biological behaviors and functions, across which bioinformatics plays an important underpinning role. Recent progresses in bioinformatics, systems biology and artificial life are extraordinarily exciting and are calling for much broader and further deep-stretching interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.
(1) Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
- analysis/interpretation of biological mechanisms/phenomena
- computational anatomy
- computational molecular biology
- computational systems biology
- computational transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics
- gene identification, regulation and expression
- genotype - phenotype linkage
- identification of gene regulatory networks
- integrative modeling and simulation frameworks, articulations between multi-scale biological models
- mathematical models for biology
- metabolic control analysis
- microarray analysis
- microarray modeling and analyses
- multi-scale modeling of biological systems/networks (molecular, cellular, tissue, organism, living individual)
- multi-scale simulation of biological systems/networks/phenomena
- pathways (genetic, signaling, metabolic)
- prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
- protein-protein-interactions
(2) Bioinformatic Tools and Platforms
- bio-ontologies
- computational infrastructure for biotechnology
- computational tools for sequencing
- database integration for bioinformatics
- grid computing / software agents for medical or biological applications
- integrative data and text mining approaches
- knowledge-driven / semantic analysis and data integration for high-throughput biological data
- molecular bioinformatics
- molecular databases / data warehouses
- text and data mining for bioinformatics
- visualization (molecules, blood flow)
(3) Artificial Life
- action-perception loops
- adaptive behavior and evolution
- ant systems
- artificial brain research
- autocatalytic systems
- bioelectronics, biomimetics
- bio-inspired robots
- biologically inspired computation, machine intelligence
- bio-morphic engineering
- bio-robotics
- brain informatics
- brain-body linkage
- collective robotics, robotic swarms
-- complex adaptive networks and systems
- embodied cognition, brain-body-environment interaction
- evolution and adaptation
- evolvable hardware
- homeostasis and autopoiesis
- immune systems
- in-silico biology
- molecular computer, DNA computing
- molecular self-assembly
- morphogenesis of artificial systems and natural systems
- self-assembly
- self-organization
- self-replication
- sensorimotor coordination
- social behavior, social interaction
- swarm intelligence
- synthesis and origin of life
- synthetic biology
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Important Dates
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(There will be NO extension to the deadline of submissions)
02 April 2008 Submission of Manuscript (maximum 8 pages of SISN Journal)
27 April 2008 Provisional Acceptance by Conferences
19 May 2008 Author Revision Statement & Revised Paper
24 May 2008 Final Acceptance by SISN Journal
08 June 2008 Camera-Ready Version & Early-Bird Registration
21-24 July 2008 Conferences
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Submission and Publication
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Submission of a manuscript should be in a PDF file and be sent to the Secretariat <siwn08@siwn.org.uk >, explicitly indicating the specific Conference to which your paper is submitted. Duplicate submitting of the same paper to multiple Conferences is NOT allowed. If you do not receive acknowledgement of a paper ID to your submission after two days, please contact again.
Accepted and registered papers of the Conferences will be published in the international journal: System and Information Sciences Notes (ISSN 1753-2310), both in CD-ROM and print versions which are available for all participants at the Conferences. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should be prepared according to theInstructions for Authors of SISN Journal. Sample Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions (CRV) are available on http://siwn.org.uk/sisn/ita/ita.htm There are page limitations upon CRV of accepted papers, i.e., 6 formatted pages for regular articles and 4 formatted pages for short articles, respectively.
Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.
(1) Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
- analysis/interpretation of biological mechanisms/phenomena
- computational anatomy
- computational molecular biology
- computational systems biology
- computational transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics
- gene identification, regulation and expression
- genotype - phenotype linkage
- identification of gene regulatory networks
- integrative modeling and simulation frameworks, articulations between multi-scale biological models
- mathematical models for biology
- metabolic control analysis
- microarray analysis
- microarray modeling and analyses
- multi-scale modeling of biological systems/networks (molecular, cellular, tissue, organism, living individual)
- multi-scale simulation of biological systems/networks/phenomena
- pathways (genetic, signaling, metabolic)
- prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
- protein-protein-interactions
(2) Bioinformatic Tools and Platforms
- bio-ontologies
- computational infrastructure for biotechnology
- computational tools for sequencing
- database integration for bioinformatics
- grid computing / software agents for medical or biological applications
- integrative data and text mining approaches
- knowledge-driven / semantic analysis and data integration for high-throughput biological data
- molecular bioinformatics
- molecular databases / data warehouses
- text and data mining for bioinformatics
- visualization (molecules, blood flow)
(3) Artificial Life
- action-perception loops
- adaptive behavior and evolution
- ant systems
- artificial brain research
- autocatalytic systems
- bioelectronics, biomimetics
- bio-inspired robots
- biologically inspired computation, machine intelligence
- bio-morphic engineering
- bio-robotics
- brain informatics
- brain-body linkage
- collective robotics, robotic swarms
-- complex adaptive networks and systems
- embodied cognition, brain-body-environment interaction
- evolution and adaptation
- evolvable hardware
- homeostasis and autopoiesis
- immune systems
- in-silico biology
- molecular computer, DNA computing
- molecular self-assembly
- morphogenesis of artificial systems and natural systems
- self-assembly
- self-organization
- self-replication
- sensorimotor coordination
- social behavior, social interaction
- swarm intelligence
- synthesis and origin of life
- synthetic biology
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Important Dates
-----------------------
(There will be NO extension to the deadline of submissions)
02 April 2008 Submission of Manuscript (maximum 8 pages of SISN Journal)
27 April 2008 Provisional Acceptance by Conferences
19 May 2008 Author Revision Statement & Revised Paper
24 May 2008 Final Acceptance by SISN Journal
08 June 2008 Camera-Ready Version & Early-Bird Registration
21-24 July 2008 Conferences
-----------------------------------------
Submission and Publication
-----------------------------------------
Submission of a manuscript should be in a PDF file and be sent to the Secretariat <siwn08@siwn.org.uk >, explicitly indicating the specific Conference to which your paper is submitted. Duplicate submitting of the same paper to multiple Conferences is NOT allowed. If you do not receive acknowledgement of a paper ID to your submission after two days, please contact again.
Accepted and registered papers of the Conferences will be published in the international journal: System and Information Sciences Notes (ISSN 1753-2310), both in CD-ROM and print versions which are available for all participants at the Conferences. A manuscript for submission to the Conference should be prepared according to theInstructions for Authors of SISN Journal. Sample Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions (CRV) are available on http://siwn.org.uk/sisn/ita/ita.htm There are page limitations upon CRV of accepted papers, i.e., 6 formatted pages for regular articles and 4 formatted pages for short articles, respectively.
