BIOCOMP'12
The
2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational
Biology

Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
...).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

O Microarrays
O Molecular dynamics and simulation;
Molecular interactions
O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and
assembly
O Molecular sequence and structure databases
O Computational
Systems Biology
O Gene regulation
O Gene pattern discovery and
identification
O Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases
O
Genetic network modeling and inference
O Comparative genomics
O Evolution
of regulatory genomic sequences
O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
O
Biomedical engineering
O Combinatorics and bioinformatics
O Biological
data mining and knowledge discovery
O Biological databases and information
retrieval
O Bio-ontologies + semantics
O Biological data integration and
visualization
O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
O
Pattern classification and recognition
O Sequence analysis and alignment
O
Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
O Software tools and
methods for computational biology and bioinformatics
O Protein modeling
O
Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition
O Metabolic modeling and
pathways
O Evolution and phylogenetics
O Macromolecular structure
prediction
O Medical informatics
O Epidemic models
O Structural and
functional genomics
O Amino acid sequencing
O Stochastic modeling
O
Cheminformatics
O Computational drug discovery
O Experimental medicine and
analysis tools.
O Personalized medicine
O Cancer informatics
O Graph
theory and computational biology
O Experimental studies and results
O
Application of computational intelligence in drug design
O High-performance
computing and applications in biology
O Computer-based medical systems
(automation in medicine, ...)
O Other aspects & applications relating to
technological advancements
in medicine & biological sciences &
emerging roadmaps.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission
of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance
(+/- two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent +
Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology
(BIOCOMP'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The
ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
BIOCOMP (2011) included research
labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California,
Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);
University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of
Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy
of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of
Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.

SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March
12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages
including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10
to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors
of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not
have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for
each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, BIOCOMP) that the paper
is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of
the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the
final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in
the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In
cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged
to make the final decision (accept/reject); often,
this would involve seeking
help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors include
a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels). Proceedings of BIOCOMP
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the
conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after
the
conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal
special
issues to be published after the conference. For a few examples of
recent
books and journal issues formed based on BIOCOMP, see the links
below:
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-...
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-...
+
a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics:
http://www.biomedcentral.com

PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

BIOCOMP 2012 is composed of a number of
tracks. A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will
have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at
least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of
track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings
and on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums)
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, BIOCOMP) the track is
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your
track proposal to edi...@world-comp.org . We
would like to receive the
track proposals as soon as possible but by no later
than January 31, 2012.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING
COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist,
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor,
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing /
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory
Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National
Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of
California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry
of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi
Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof.
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science,
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof.
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA
Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
USA).
2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer
Society;
Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick
Technologies
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo
Research Lab,
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems
Instructor,
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program
Committee for BIOCOMP is currently being compiled. Many
who have already
joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists
and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs.,
members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies,
as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to
have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program
Committee should email edi...@world-comp.org the
following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and
position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to
help with.
The list of Program Committee of BIOCOMP 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/bi...

GENERAL
INFORMATION:

BIOCOMP is one of the premier research conferences in
bioinformatics
and computational biology. It is being held jointly (same
location
and dates) with a number of other research conferences
(WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We
anticipate
to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80
countries.
WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U.
of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father
of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR,
U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a
spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month).
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )

USEFUL
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for BIOCOMP, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/biocomp/
The
main web site of BIOCOMP'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon
appear at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of
Contents of last offering of BIOCOMP (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/bicomp/contents1.pdf

CONTACT:
Inquiries
should be sent to: wco...@world-comp.org