ICCABS 2013 - Call for

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CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational
Advances in Bio and medical Sciences (ICCABS)
June 12-14, New Orleans, LA, USA

Advances in high-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and
mass sp ectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences,
resulting in the coll ection of unprecedented amounts of biological
and medical data. Using this data to advance our knowledge about
fundamental biological processes and i mprove human health requires
novel computational models and advanced analys is algorithms. IEEE
ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and ind ustry
researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods f or bio and medical sciences.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Biological modeling and simulation (Molecular and cellular mode ling, stochastic and rule-based modeling, modeling languages and
systems);
* Biomedical image processing (Image segmentation and classi fication, visualization, functional and molecular imaging);
* Biomedical data and literature mining (Data integration, k nowledge discovery from electronic medical records and scientific
literatur e);
* Computational genetic epidemiology (Linkage and associatio n
analysis, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction modeling,
genetic ri sk analysis);
* Computational metabolomics (Metabolomics databases, metabo lite
identification, spectral analysis, metabolic network modeling);
* Computational proteomics (Peptide identification and quant ification, post-translational modifications, protein-protein
interactions ) ;
* Databases and ontologies (Biomedical data warehouses, data base
integration, biomedical ontologies and semantic web services);
* Gene regulation (Regulatory motifs and modules, post-trans criptional regulation, regulatory networks);
* Genome analysis (Genome assembly, genome annotation, compa rative
genomics, metagenomics);
* Health Informatics (Medical data management and privacy, m edical
recommender systems, therapy optimization);
* High-performance bio-computing (Cloud and grid computing, advanced multi-core, GPU, and FPGA biomedical applications);
* Immunoinformatics (Epitope prediction, vaccine design, imm une
system simulators);
* Molecular evolution (Models of evolution, reconstruction o f
phylogenetic trees and networks, comparative genomics);
* Population genomics (Haplotype and recombination analysis, structural genomic variation, signatures of natural selection);
* Sequence analysis (Multiple sequence alignment, motif disc overy,
sequence search and clustering);
* Structural bioinformatics (RNA and protein structure predi ction
and classification, molecular docking, RNA and protein design);
* Systems biology (Systems approaches to molecular biology, multi-scale modeling, biological networks, synthetic biology);
* Transcriptomics (Microarray and sequencing-based transcrip tome
profiling, novel transcript discovery, alternative splicing,
non-codin g RNA analysis).

Submission Instructions:

Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF
form at by following the instructions at
[1]http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icc abs13.
Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society’s W ord/LaTeX templates available at
[2]http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting and should
not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be p ublished
in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of
stu dent travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).

Key Dates:

Papers Submission April 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance May 20, 2013
Author Registration May 20, 2013
Camera-ready Papers Due May 27, 2013

General Chairs
Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State University) and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
(Univers ity of Connecticut)

Program Chairs
Vladimir Filkov (UC Davis) and Knut Reinert (Freie Universität
Berlin)

References

1. 3D"http://www.easychair.org/con 2. 3D"http://www2.computer.org/portal