* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement. * Kindly forward to those who may be interested. Thanks. ********** CSBio 2012 - Call for Papers ********* CSBio 2012 : 3rd International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012 http://www.csbio.org/ Important Dates =============== Regular paper submission deadline: May 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2012 Camera-ready paper: July 31, 2012 ORGANIZERS - National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) - King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) TECHNICAL SPONSORS - International Neural Network Society (INNS) - ACM Thailand Chapter Aims and Scope ============== With the advent of technologies like DNA sequencing and DNA microarray, an enormous amount of information has been generated that can only be efficiently analyzed with computers. As the information becomes ever larger and more complex, more computational tools are needed to sort through the data. These include: * Development of new algorithms and statistics to assess biological information, such as relationships among members of very large data sets. * Development of computational methodologies to perform systematic studies of complex interactions in biological systems to enable discovery of new emergent properties that may arise from the integrated systemic view. * Development and implementation of tools that enable efficient access and management of different types of information, such as various databases, integrated mapping information. * Visualization of various types of biological data to aid in analysis and interpretation of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, protein domains, and protein structures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive computation in bioinformatics * Translational bioinformatics * Medical and biomedical informatics * DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis * Gene expression analysis * Biomarker discovery * Disease classification * Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, and so on * Parallel and grid computing * Molecular evolution and phylogeny * Functional genomics * Proteomics & other omics * Protein folding * Drug discovery and validation * Biological network reconstruction and analysis * Bio-inspired computing * Bio-data visualization Paper Submission ================ The CSBio 2012 online submission system is opened at EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbio2012). Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality full papers of up to twelve (12) pages electronically. Short papers of 4-6 pages will also be considered. The submission must conform to the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/descript...). All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of CSBio 2012 as an Elsevier Procedia Computer Science open access volume (indexed by EI, Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - formerly ISI Proceedings). Extended version of selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals after the conference. All submissions will be checked by VeriGuide for originality (http://veriguide1.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/portal/page/index.jsp). Journal versions of selected papers from the conference proceedings will be invited to the following thematic issues: - Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier) - "Computational Advances in Translational Bioinformatics" - Memetic Computing (Springer) - "Modern Applications of Adaptive Computation in Bioinformatics" Collocated Conferences ===================== - The 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2012 - www.incob2012.org) - The 3rd Winter Conference of the International Neural Network Society (INNS-WC 2012 - http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/)