Bioinformatics Lab

ICCABS 2013

ion — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:22:45 +0000

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) will be held on June 12-14, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. The conference aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers

to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is April 5, 2013. Topics of interest include but are not limited to biological modeling and simulation, biomedical image processing, biomedical data and literature mining, computational genetic epidemiology, computational metabolomics, computational proteomics, databases and ontologies, gene regulation, genome assembly and annotation, health informatics, high-performance bio-computing, immunoinformatics, molecular evolution, population genomics, sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, and transcriptomics. Two special supplements of journals BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics will be devoted to full versions of selected extended abstracts. For more details visit the ICCABS website at http://iccabs.org.

ISBRA’13

ion — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:32:48 +0000

The 9th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2013) will be held on May 20–22 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior editions of the symposium were held in Atlanta (2005, 2007, and 2008), Reading, UK (2006), Fort Lauderdale (2009), Storrs (2010), Changsha, China (2011), and Dallas (2012).

Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (12 pages) is February 6. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by February 27, with final versions due on March 8. The deadline for submitting short abstracts (4 pages) is April 1. Notification will occur by April 15, with final versions due on April 22.

For more details visit the symposium website at http://isbra2013.uncc.edu/.

Faculty Positions in Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics

ion — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:43:01 +0000

The Computer Science & Engineering Department is seeking exceptional candidates for four tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor positions, including two positions in bioinformatics and computational genomics. The department is among the top 50 departments in the nation as per the latest NRC rankings. Currently it has 21 faculty members, 10 of whom are NSF Career Award winners, with 300 undergraduate and 115 graduate students. For further information please see http://www.cse.uconn.edu.

ISBRA’12

ion — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:44:56 +0000

The 8th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’12) will be held in Dallas, Texas on May 21-23, 2012. The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is February 6, 2012; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 9, 2012. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra12/.

ISB Special Issue

ion — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:41:22 +0000

A special issue of In Silico Biology devoted to CAME’11 is scheduled for publication in July 2012. Authors are invited to submit full versions of their workshop papers by January 16, 2012. For detailed manuscript preparation and submission instructions see the CAME’11 website.

ICCABS 2012

ion — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:29:58 +0000

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) will be held on Feb. 23-25, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers

to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is Dec. 22, 2011. Topics of interest include but are not limited to biological modeling and simulation, biomedical image processing, biomedical data and literature mining, computational genetic epidemiology, computational metabolomics, computational proteomics, databases and ontologies, gene regulation, genome assembly and annotation, health informatics, high-performance bio-computing, immunoinformatics, molecular evolution, population genomics, sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, and transcriptomics. For more details visit the ICCABS website at http://iccabs.org.

CAME 2011

ion — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:03:30 +0000

A workshop on Computational Advances in Molecular Epidemiology (CAME 2011) will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2011) held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on Nov. 12-15, 2011. The workshop aims to accelerate progress in the field by bringing together field practitioners of molecular epidemiology, molecular evolutionists, population geneticists, medical researchers, bioinformaticians, statisticians and computer scientists interested in the latest developments in algorithms, mining, visualization, modeling, simulation and other methods of computational, statistical and mathematical analysis of genetic and molecular data in the epidemiological context. The deadline for submitting papers is Sept. 20, 2011. For more details about the workshop see http://alan.cs.gsu.edu/CAME11/.

Workshop on Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing

ion — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:31:42 +0000

A workshop on computational advances for next generation sequencing will be held on Feb. 4, 2011 in conjunction with ICCABS 2011, in Orlando, Florida. The workshop aims to bring together experts in the field to discuss mathematical and computational challenges such as error correction, de novo genome assembly, novel transcript discovery, virus quasispecies assembly, etc. The meeting is by invitation only; if you would like to inquire about the possibility of being invited, please contact the organizers by January 10, 2011.

ISBRA’11

ion — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:50:57 +0000

The 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’11) will be held at Central South University in Changsha, China on May 27-29, 2011. The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is February 11, 2011; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 8, 2011. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra11/.

New IEEE Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences

ion — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:45:59 +0000

Advances in high‐throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences, resulting in the collection of unprecedented amounts of biological and medical data. Using this data to

advance our knowledge about fundamental biological processes and improve human health requires novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms. The new IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences. ICCABS 2011 will be held on Feb. 3‐5, 2011, in Orlando, Florida. Submission deadline is Dec. 10, 2010.