International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics Delft, The Netherlands, November 2-4 2011 http://prib2011.org/ Call for Papers In modern biology, high-throughput measurement devices allow scientists to gather data at unprecedented rates. To make sense of this data, computational biologists and system biologists construct quantitative models, many of which depend on pattern recognition techniques. Their application is challenging due to the large volumes of data and background information, noisy measurements and target outputs, highly diverse data types etc. The Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics conference series aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to present and discuss recent developments and applications of pattern recognition methods in current bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. Authors are invited to submit full papers in relevant research areas, which include but are not limited to: · Bio-sequence analysis · Gene and protein expression analysis · Biomarker discovery · 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 · Bio-imaging · Biological databases, integration and visualisation Pattern recognition techniques of interest include: · Statistical, syntactic and structural pattern recognition · Datamining and data-based modeling · Evolutionary computation · Bayesian networks and graphical models · Neural networks and fuzzy systems Submission, Publication and Grants Papers should be submitted electronically through the conference website. We will work with Springer to publish accepted papers in its Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNBI). A limited number of Ph.D. student travel grants will be made available; please keep an eye on the website for more information. Important dates · Paper submission June 19, 2011 · Author notification July 25, 2011 · Camera-ready paper August 24, 2011 · Poster abstract submission October 2, 2011 Organisation General chairs Marcel Reinders, Delft University of Technology Dick de Ridder, Delft University of Technology Programme chairs Marco Loog, Delft University of Technology Lodewyk Wessels, Netherlands Cancer Institute Publicity chairs David Tax, Delft University of Technology Thomas Abeel, Ghent University Invited speaker chairs Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology Manuele Bicego, University of Verona Steering committee Ray Acharya, Pennsylvania State University Madhu Chetty, Monash University Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen Visakan Kadirkamanathan, University of Sheffield Elena Marchiori, Radboud University Nijmegen Jagath Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield