CFP: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM12) (Extended to May 31)

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Call for Papers
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2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
(BIBM12)

http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm12/
October 4-7, 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA,


The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
(BIBM)
has established itself as the premier research conference in
bioinformatics
and biomedicine. IEEE BIBM 2012 provides a leading forum for
disseminating
the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It
brings
together academic and industrial scientists from computer science,
biology,
chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics.


We solicit high-quality original research papers (including
significant
work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics and biomedicine. New
computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining;
text
analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases;
data
modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph
algorithms;
linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data
visualization;
parallel computation; data integration; modeling and simulation and
heir
application in life science domain are especially encouraged Relevant
topics
include but are not limited to:

1. Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution
a. Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics
b. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics
c. SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS
d. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions

2. Computational Systems Biology
a. Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis
b. Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway
Analysis
c. Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics
d. Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation
analysis

3. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics
a. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and
Electronic Health Record
b. Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis
c. Genome-Phenome Analysis
d. Biomarker Discovery

4. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics
Infrastructure
a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization
c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration
d. High Performance Computing

5. Healthcare Informatics
a. Healthcare knowledge representation & reasoning
b. Health data acquisition, analysis and mining
c. Healthcare information systems
d. Clinical Decision Support and Informatics


INDUSTRIAL Track
The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of
Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of
industry track is on
papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new
research challenge issues
related to the use of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in
industry. We accept
full papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well
as short abstracts (1
page, 500 words).


* Journal special issues: IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish
selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. So
far we have confirmed the special issues publications with 7
journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions onÊ System, Men and Cybernetics,
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, BMC
Bioinformatics, BMC Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Proteomics
Science,Ê Proteomics, Journal of Network Modeling and Analysis in
Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (In the past BIBM conference,
the number of special issues is: BIBM 2011-8 special issues, BIBM
2010-7 special issues, BIBM 2009-4 special issues; BIBM 2008-4
special issues)

* Student Travel Award: BIBM 2012 will offer as many as possible
student travel awards to student authors (including post-doc) (BIBM
2011-28 student travel awards, BIBM 2010-22 student travel awards,
BIBM 2009-16 student travel awards )


* Panel on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Research Challenges and
Opportunities led by top researchers and program managers from NSF
and NIH


Conference Co-Chairs:

Prof. Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA, un...@cis.upenn.edu
Prof. Cathy Wu, University of Delaware, USA, w...@dbi.udel.edu

Program Co-Chairs:

Prof. Reda Alhaij, University of Calgary, Canada, rsal...@gmail.com
Prof. Jean Gao, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, g...@uta.edu
Prof. Dubitzky Werner, University of Ulster, UK,
W.Dub...@ulster.ac.uk

Industry Program Committee Chair:

Dr. Anastasia Christianson, AstraZeneca, USA,
anastasia.c...@astrazeneca.com

BIBM Steering Committee Chair:

Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA, t...@cis.drexel.edu


Paper Submission:

Please submit a full-length paper (upto 8 page IEEE 2-column format)
through
the online submission system (you can download the format instruction
here
http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html for Latex or
word).
Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required.
Selected
participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format
to be
specified at the time of acceptance.

Online Submission:

http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html


Important Dates:

Electronic submission of full papers : May 31, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance : July 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers : August 15, 2012
Conference : October 4-7, 2012