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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                    2nd IEEE International Conference on
         Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)

                    Feb. 23-25, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada

                          http://www.iccabs.org/

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.


SCOPE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Biological modeling and simulation: Molecular and cellular modeling,
   stochastic and rule-based modeling, modeling languages and systems

* Biomedical image processing: Image segmentation and classification,
   visualization, functional and molecular imaging

* Biomedical data and literature mining: Data integration, knowledge
   discovery from electronic medical records and scientific literature

* Computational genetic epidemiology: Linkage and association analysis,
   gene-gene and gene-environment interaction modeling, genetic risk
   analysis

* Computational metabolomics: Metabolomics databases, metabolite
   identification, spectral analysis, metabolic network modeling

* Computational proteomics: Peptide identification and quantification,
   post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions

* Databases and ontologies: Biomedical data warehouses, database
   integration, biomedical ontologies and semantic web services

* Gene regulation: Regulatory motifs and modules, post-transcriptional
   regulation, regulatory networks

* Genome analysis: Genome assembly, genome annotation, comparative
   genomics, metagenomics

* Health Informatics: Medical data management and privacy, medical
   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, immune system
   simulators

* Molecular evolution: Models of evolution, reconstruction of
   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 discovery,
   sequence search and clustering

* Structural bioinformatics: RNA and protein structure prediction 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 transcriptome
   profiling, novel transcript discovery, alternative splicing,
   non-coding RNA analysis


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF 
format by following the instructions at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs12.  Submissions should 
be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available 
at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting 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).


KEY DATES

Abstract submission:        Dec. 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Jan. 25, 2012
Camera-ready version and
author registration:        Feb. 2, 2012


STEERING COMMITTEE

Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State U.)
Reda A. Ammar (U. of Connecticut)
Tao Jiang (U.C. Riverside)
Vipin Kumar (U. of Minnesota)
Ming Li (U. of Waterloo)
S. Rajasekaran (U. of Connecticut), Chair
John Reif (Duke University)
Sartaj Sahni (U. of Florida)


GENERAL CHAIRS

Sorin Istrail (Brown University)
S. Rajasekaran (U. of Connecticut)


PROGRAM CHAIRS

Ion Mandoiu (U. of Connecticut)
Mihai Pop (U. of  Maryland)
John Spouge (NCBI/NIH)


FINANCE CHAIR
Reda A. Ammar (U. of Connecticut)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Martin Schiller (U. of Nevada LV)


A pdf version of this CFP is available at 
http://iccabs.org/files/ICCABS-CFP.pdf
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