Apologies for multiple postings - Please distribute within your lab - Dear Colleague, We are inviting submissions for short papers and poster abstracts at PRIB 2010. The deadline is 1 August. Best wishes, The PRIB 2010 Organizing Committee ---- *** PRIB 2010: Call for short papers and poster abstracts *** http://www.prib2010.org/ The Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics conference aims to bring together top researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to tackle problems in the life sciences. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the research areas of interest to the conference. These include: •Bio-sequence analysis •Gene and protein expression analysis •Protein structure and interaction prediction •Motifs and signal detection •Metabolic modelling and analysis •Systems and synthetic biology •Pathway and network analysis •Immuno- and chemo-informatics •Evolution and phylogeny •Biological databases, integration and visualisation •Bio-imaging Pattern recognition techniques of interest include, but not limited to: •Static, syntactic and structural pattern recognition •Data mining, Data based modelling •Neural networks, Fuzzy systems •Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence •Hidden Markov models, Graphical models We are inviting submissions of short papers (up to 6 pages in LNCS formats) and poster abstracts (up to 1 page) in all the areas of relevance to the conference. Accepted short papers will be published in the PRIB 2010 supplementary proceedings. Authors of both short papers and abstracts will be expected to present their work in the form of a poster at the conference. To submit short papers select the "Short Paper" category in the EasyChair submission system. Important Dates •Short Paper Submission: 1 August 2010 •Author Notification: 15 August 2010 •Early Bird Registration: 20 August 2010