Connectionists: CIBB 2018: Call for Special Session Proposals

[Antonino Staiano]

CIBB 2018 : 15th Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics

Caparica, Portugal, September 6-8, 2018

http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/


Call for Papers, Tutorials and Special Sessions

 The main goal of the CIBB international conference is to provide a
multi-disciplinary forum for researchers interested in the application of
computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in
bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology and medical
informatics. Cutting edge methodologies capable of accelerating life
science discoveries will be discussed.

Following its tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together
researchers from the international scientific community interested in
advancements and future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics.
Also of particular interest are current trends and future opportunities at
the edge of computer and life sciences, together with the application of
computational intelligence to system and synthetic biology, and the
consequent impact on innovative medicine. Theoretical and experimental
biologists are invited to participate in order to present novel challenges
and foster multidisciplinary collaboration.

The scientific program of CIBB 2018 will include Keynote Speakers,
tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in
plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

·        Next generation sequencing bioalgorithms

·        Multi-omics data analysis

·        High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data

·        Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis

·        Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis

·        Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data

·        Software tools for bioinformatics

·        Methods for comparative genomics

·        Methods for functional classification of genes

·        Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of
structures discovered in bio-molecular data

·        Health-Informatics and Medical Informatics

·        Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data

·        Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics

·        Algorithms for pharmacogenomics

·        Biomedical text mining and imaging

·        Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine

·        Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data

·        Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures

·        Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics

·        Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis

·        Bio-molecular databases and data mining

·        Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and
synthetic systems

·        Computational simulation of biological systems

·        Methods and advances in systems biology

·        Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems

·        Network systems biology

·        Models for cell populations and tissues

·        Methods for the engineering of synthetic components

·        Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological
systems

·        Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and
synthetic biology

TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS

CIBB 2018 will run a number of Tutorials and Special Sessions. Any topic of
interest for the conference is eligible for a tutorial. Tutorials typically
last from one to three hours. Special sessions focus on a specific,
possibly cutting-edge, topic of interest for CIBB 2018. Special session
organisers will be responsible for call dissemination, the reviewing
process and organizing oral presentations. Typically, a special session
will have at least 4 accepted papers and may have an invited speaker (to be
negotiated).

Tutorial proposals

⁃ including title, a one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters

⁃ due by 25th March 2018

⁃ send proposals to ⁃ cibb2018 at campus.fct.unl.pt


Special Session proposals

⁃ including the session’s title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs,
preliminary list of at least 4, possibly more, potential authors

⁃ due by 25th March 2018

⁃ a special session is expected to have at least 4 accepted papers

⁃ send proposals to ⁃ cibb2018 at campus.fct.unl.pt

PUBLICATION

Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At
least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present
their paper at the conference.  Authors of accepted papers will be invited
to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph.

We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are
also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the
publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific
journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions).

Antonino Staiano, University of Naples Parthenope
antonino.staiano at uniparthenope.it
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Antonino Staiano, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. Science and Technology
University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
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