IWBRA 2006
                       2nd International Workshop on
                   Bioinformatics Research and Applications
                      http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/IWBRA
                         University of Reading, UK
                              May 28-31, 2006

                            in conjunction with

            2006 International Conference on Computational Science
                     http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006/


The International Workshop Bioinformatics Research and Applications
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.  Authors are invited to
submit papers that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas
of bioinformatics, including the development of experimental or commercial
systems. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also
welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Bioinformatic databases
* Biomedical image processing
* Bio-ontology and data mining
* Computational genetics
* Comparative genomics
* Data visualization
* Gene expression and microarrays
* Gene identification and annotation
* Immunoinformatics
* Molecular evolution and phylogeny
* Molecular modeling and simulation
* Molecular sequence analysis
* Parallel bioinformatics algorithms
* Pathways and systems biology
* Protein structure prediction

All submissions will be fully reviewed, and accepted papers will be
published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors
must submit papers electronically by following the instructions at
http://www.easychair.org/IWBRA06/submit/. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the
paper. Submissions must be camera-ready and formatted according to the
LNCS format. Please note that papers must not exceed eight pages in length
in the rather restrictive LNCS format (a 122 mm by 193 mm printed area,
single column, 10 point font). Full versions of selected accepted papers
will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on
Bioinformatics Research and Applications.


IMPORTANT DATES:

 - Paper submission deadline:  December 16, 2005
 - Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2006
 - Final version submission:   February 10, 2006
 - Early registration:         March 30, 2006


REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION:

For details on registration and accommodation information, please refer to
the ICCS web site at http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006/.


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Alexander Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, USA


PROGRAM CHAIR

Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yonatan Aumann, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Piotr Berman, Penn State, USA
Paola Bonizzoni, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo, Canada
Liming Cai, University of Georgia, USA
Jake Yue Chen, IUPUI, USA
Peter Damaschke, Chalmers University, Sweden
Bhaskar Dasgupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jun-tao Guo, University of Georgia, USA
Jieyue He, Southeast University, China
Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA
Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada
Osamu Maruyama, Kyushu University, Japan
Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Giri Narasimhan, Florida International University, USA
Craig Nelson, University of Connecticut, USA
Mathew Palakal, IUPUI, USA
Laxmi Parida, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, USA
Sven Rahmann, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, USA
Jens Stoye, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Ugo Vaccaro, Università di Salerno, Italy
Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University, USA
Dong Xu, University of Missouri, USA
Kaizhong Zhang, University of West Ontario, Canada
Wei-Mou Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China