Submission Deadline extended to Nov. 30, 2017, BICOB'18: Int'l Conf. Bioinformatics & Comp Biology.

[Nurit Haspel]

Apologies for multiple postings


/Submission deadline is extended to Nov. 30, 2017.///* BICOB-2018*-
Call for Papers


*10^th  International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (BICOB)*


*/March 19 – 21, 2018 - Las Vegas, NV, USA /*//


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*_Important Dates_***

*        Paper Submission Deadline: **November 30, 2017 (/extended/**)*
*        Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2017*/
/*        Pre-registration and Camera-ready Manuscripts: January 20, 2018*


*Paper submission site:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2018


*Conference website:**http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob18/ *

The International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(BICOB) is one of the main conferences in bioinformatics and
computational biology in North America. The 10th International
Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (/BICOB-2018/)
will be held between 19–21 March 2018 in Las Vegas, USA.  BICOB-2018
will provide a vibrant atmosphere and venue for bioinformatics and
computational biology researchers to present and publish their research
results, investigations, and studies. In recent years, most areas of
bioinformatics, computational biology and medical informatics have
experienced significant advances driven by computational techniques in
bioinformatics. Moreover, bioinformatics and computational biology
continue to be a vibrant research area with broadening applications and
new emerging challenges.  BICOB-2018 seeks original and high quality
contributions in the fields of bioinformatics, computational biology,
systems biology, medical informatics and the related areas. The
conference includes a *Best Paper Award*to be presented during the
conference banquet. We also encourage work in progress and research
results in the emerging and evolutionary computational areas. Work in
the computational methods related to, or with application in,
bioinformatics is also encouraged including: computational intelligence
and its application in bioinformatics, bio-data mining and text mining,
evolutionary algorithms, nature-inspired computation, machine learning
and bio-NLP, biomedical ontology, biomathematics, modeling and
simulation, pattern recognition, data visualization, biostatistics. The
topics of interest include (and are not limited to):

• *Genome analysis:* Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics and
metagenomics, genome and chromosome annotation, gene finding,
alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative genomics.

• *Sequence analysis:* Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and
clustering, next generation sequencing NGS, function prediction, motif
discovery, functional site recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.

• *Phylogenetics:* Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution,
comparative biological methods, population genetics.

• *Systems biology:* Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale
modeling, pathways, gene networks, transcriptomics - microarray data
analysis, proteomics, epigenetics.

• *Healthcare Informatics:* healthcare data acquisition, analysis and
mining. Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information
systems.

• *Structural Bioinformatics:* Structure matching, prediction, analysis
and comparison; methods and tools for docking; protein design

• *Analysis of high-throughput biological data: *Microarrays (nucleic
acid, protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE,
MPSS, proteomics, mass spectrometry, Query Languages, Interoperability,
Bio-ontology and bio-data Mining.

• *Genetics and population analysis:* Linkage analysis, association
analysis, population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype
calling.


Moreover, BICOB welcomes submissions in all areas of computing with
impact on life sciences including algorithms, databases, languages,
systems, and high performance computing. For example: Parallel and
high-performance techniques, Computational biology on emerging
architectures and hardware accelerators. **

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*Submission Procedures:*

Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission in PDF format.  A
full paper, including title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing
address, and email of the principal author, should be submitted online
at the submission website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2018 on or before*November
30, 2017. *The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final
paper as it will appear in the Proceedings.  Maximum paper length for
the proceedings is six pages, with up to two additional pages accepted
with page charges (6+2).  ISCA double-column format will be used.
Accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus, EI, and INSPEC, and submitted
to DBLP for indexing. All BICOB-2018 Proceedings papers will be
accessible and available online at www.seachDL.org
<http://www.seachDL.org> and also will appear in Google scholar full text.

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*Journal Publication*

Authors of selected high quality papers in BICOB-2018 will be invited to
submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in
bioinformatics journals including Journal of Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology /JBCB/ (/selected papers in previous BICOB
conferences were published in JBCB/).


*Indexing*: Accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus, EI, and INSPEC,
and submitted to DBLP for indexing. All BICOB-2018 Proceedings papers
will be accessible and available online at www.seachDL.org
<http://www.seachDL.org> and also will appear in Google scholar full text.

*For more information*: please contact Program co-Chairs:

Hisham Al-Mubaid – Email: his...@uhcl.edu <mailto:his...@uhcl.edu>  Tel:
+1-281-283-3802

Qin Ding – Email: di...@ecu.edu <mailto:di...@ecu.edu>  Tel: +1-252-328-9686

Conference Chair: Oliver Eulenstein – Email: oeul...@iastate.edu
<mailto:oeul...@iastate.edu>  Tel: +1-515-294-2407

Publicity Chair: Nurit Haspel – Email: nurit....@umb.edu
<mailto:nurit....@umb.edu>  Tel: +1-617-287-6414