Bioinformatics and Machine Learning in Biomedicine Symposium - Call for Abstracts (extended deadline)
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Bioinformatics and Machine Learning in Biomedicine (BML-Biomed)
a Symposium as part of the
53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the
European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI 2019)
May 22-24, 2019
Coimbra - Portugal
Deadline for Abstract Submission extended to February 11, 2019
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BML-Biomed is a symposium to be held as part of the 53rd ESCI annual meeting, and it aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of high quality research addressing the application of Machine Learning and Optimization methods to problems arising in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners from the areas of biomedicine / clinical investigation and computer science, aiming at providing a pleasant venue for information exchange and discussions of current developments and applications.
BML-Biomed invites contributions on all aspects of the applications of machine learning and bioinformatics methods in biomedicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Classification methods for biomedical data
- Clustering methods for biomedical data
- Text mining methods for biomedical data
- Computational Systems Biology
- Improving the interpretability of predictive models in biomedicine
- Genome Bioinformatics
- Protein Sequence Analysis
- Protein Structure Prediction
- Protein Function Prediction
- Machine learning for longitudinal biomedical data
- Machine learning for molecular biology data
- Machine learning for biomedical imaging
SUBMISSION:
Abstracts must be original and must not have been published or presented at any other meeting prior to ESCI 2019. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, must be written in English and can only be submitted using the on-line abstract submission form (link here: https://esci2019.com/abstracts/).
The submissions will be evaluated by the Symposium organizers. Accepted abstracts will be presented orally or as posters, and published in a Special Issue of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation (Book of Abstracts). This journal is ranked in the quartile Q1 in the Web of Science’s Journal Citation report, category Medicine – General and Internal.
The Presenting author must be the Contact author in the submission form and he/she must be listed the first in the list of authors. Each Presenting author can submit a maximum of three ( 3 ) abstracts. The Presenting author must register for the ESCI 2019 Congress before the 15th of April to ensure the abstract is included in the program and scheduled for presentation. Authors will be required to indicate whether oral or poster presentation is preferred. The final type of presentation and session will be determined by the ESCI 2019 Congress Organizers after the reviewing process.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2019
- Acceptance Notifications: March 10, 2019
- Authors Payment Deadline: April 15, 2019
- BML-Biomed Symposium: May 22-24, 2019
ORGANIZERS:
Francisco Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Alex Freitas, University of Kent, UK
Armindo Salvador, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal