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CALL FOR PAPERS
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3<sup>rd</sup> IEEE International Conference on Computational <br>
Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) <br>
June 12-14, New Orleans, LA, USA <br>
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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. IEEE ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences.
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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<li><b>Biological modeling and simulation</b> (Molecular and cellular modeling, stochastic and rule-based modeling, modeling languages and systems);
</li><li><b>Biomedical image processing </b> (Image segmentation and classification, visualization, functional and molecular imaging);
</li><li><b>Biomedical data and literature mining </b> (Data integration, knowledge discovery from electronic medical records and scientific literature);
</li><li><b>Computational genetic epidemiology </b> (Linkage and association analysis, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction modeling, genetic risk analysis);
</li><li><b>Computational metabolomics </b> (Metabolomics databases, metabolite identification, spectral analysis, metabolic network modeling);
</li><li><b>Computational proteomics </b> (Peptide identification and quantification, post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions );
</li><li><b>Databases and ontologies </b> (Biomedical data warehouses, database integration, biomedical ontologies and semantic web services);
</li><li><b>Gene regulation </b> (Regulatory motifs and modules, post-transcriptional regulation, regulatory networks);
</li><li><b>Genome analysis </b> (Genome assembly, genome annotation, comparative genomics, metagenomics);
</li><li><b>Health Informatics </b> (Medical data management and privacy, medical recommender systems, therapy optimization);
</li><li><b>High-performance bio-computing </b> (Cloud and grid computing, advanced multi-core, GPU, and FPGA biomedical applications);
</li><li><b>Immunoinformatics </b> (Epitope prediction, vaccine design, immune system simulators);
</li><li><b>Molecular evolution </b> (Models of evolution, reconstruction of phylogenetic trees and networks, comparative genomics);
</li><li><b>Population genomics </b> (Haplotype and recombination analysis, structural genomic variation, signatures of natural selection);
</li><li><b>Sequence analysis </b> (Multiple sequence alignment, motif discovery, sequence search and clustering);
</li><li><b>Structural bioinformatics </b> (RNA and protein structure prediction and classification, molecular docking, RNA and protein design);
</li><li><b>Systems biology </b> (Systems approaches to molecular biology, multi-scale modeling, biological networks, synthetic biology);
</li><li><b>Transcriptomics </b> (Microarray and sequencing-based transcriptome profiling, novel transcript discovery, alternative splicing, non-coding RNA analysis).</li>
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Submission Instructions:
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Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF format by following the instructions at <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs2013" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/<WBR>conferences/?conf=iccabs2013</a>. Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at <a href="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank">http://www2.computer.org/<WBR>portal/web/cscps/formatting</a> and should not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).
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Key Dates:<br>
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<dt>Papers Submission:</dt> <dd>April 5, 2013</dd>
<dt>Notification of Acceptance:</dt> <dd>May 20, 2013</dd>
<dt>Author Registration:</dt> <dd>May 20, 2013</dd>
<dt>Camera-ready Papers Due:</dt> <dd>May 27, 2013</dd>
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General Chairs:<br>
Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State University) and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut)
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Program Chairs:<br>
Vladimir Filkov (UC Davis) and Knut Reinert (Freie Universitaät Berlin)
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Program Committee:<br>
<li>Daniel Brown (U. of Waterloo)</li>
<li>Radhakrishnan Nagarajan (U. of Kentucky)</li>
<li>Doina Caragea (Kansas State University)</li>
<li>Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa)</li>
<li>Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University)</li>
<li>Joao Setubal (Universidade de Sao Paulo)</li>
<li>Matthias Chung (Virginia Tech)</li><li>John Spouge (NCBI, NIH)</li>
<li>Matteo Comin (U. of Padova)</li>
<li>Irina Astrovskaya (Georgia State University)</li>
<li>Bhaskar Dasgupta (U. of Illinois At Chicago)</li>
<li>Raj Sunderraman (Georgia State U.)</li>
<li>Jorge Duitama (U. of Connecticut)</li>
<li>Jerzy Tiuryn (U. of Warsaw)</li>
<li>Richard Edwards (U. of Southampton)</li>
<li>Todd Treangen (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)</li>
<li>Scott Emrich (U. of Notre Dame)</li>
<li>Ugo Vaccaro (Università di Salerno)</li>
<li>Andrei Paun (Louisiana Tech University</li>
<li>Matthew Vaughn (U. Of Texas At Austin)</li>
<li>Oliver Eulenstein (IOWA state University)</li>
<li>Jianxin Wang (Central South U.)</li>
<li>Guillaume Fertin (Universitè de Nantes)</li>
<li>Li-San Wang (U. of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Liliana Florea (McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine)</li>
<li>FangXiang Wu (U. of Saskatchewan)</li>
<li>Osamu Gotoh (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Yanbin Yin (U. of Georgia)</li>
<li>Katia Guimaraes (U. of Maryland)</li>
<li>Shaojie Zhang (U. of Central Florida)</li>
<li>Robert Harrison (Georgia State U.)</li>
<li>Steve Skiena (Stony Brook University) </li>
<li>Steffen Heber (North Carolina State University)</li>
<li>Sing-Hoi Sze (Texas A&M University)</li>
<li>Yongsheng Huang (U. of Michigan)</li>
<li>T.M. Murali (Virginia Tech)</li>
<li>Hasan Jamil (Wayne State University</li>
<li>Natasa Przulj (Imperial College London)</li>
<li>Sumit Kumar Jha (U. of Central Florida)</li>
<li>David Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Lars Kaderali (U. of Technology Dresden)</li>
<li>Ovidiu Daescu (U. of Texas at Dallas)</li>
<li>Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University)</li>
<li>Veli Makinnen (U. of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Yury Khudyakov (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)</li>
<li>Hans-Christian (Zuse Institute Berlin)</li>
<li>Danny Krizanc (Wesleyan University)</li>
<li>Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Stefano Lonardi (U. of California, Riverside)</li>
<li>Victor Missirian (U. of California Davis)</li>
<li>Ion Mandoiu (U. of Connecticut)</li>
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