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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
CIBB 2015
12th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence
Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
CNR Research Area “Napoli 1”, Naples, Italy
September 10-12, 2015
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Scope of CIBB 2015
CIBB (Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics) is a meeting with more than 10-year history. Its main
goal is to provide a forum open to researchers from different
disciplines to present problems concerning computational techniques
in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics, to
discuss cutting edge methodologies and accelerate life science
discoveries.
Following this tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring
together researchers from the international scientific community
interested in this field to discuss the advancements and the future
perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Applied biologists
are also invited to participate in order to propose novel challenges
aimed to have high impact for molecular biology and translational
medicine.
Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2015 include, but are not
limited to:
High dimensional statistical analysis of omic data;
Next generation sequencing bioinformatics;
Multi-omic data integration;
Methods for supervised and unsupervised learning;
Prediction of protein structures;
Methods for comparative genomics;
Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic
analysis;
Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological
systems;
Systems and synthetic biology;
Bio-molecular databases and data mining;
Bio-medical text mining and imaging;
Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data;
Methods for the visualization of high dimensional
complex omic data;
Software tools for bioinformatics.
CIBB 2015 is jointly organized by:
• INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bioinformatics
• INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bio-pattern
• IEEE-CIS-BBCT Task forces on Neural Networks and Evolutionary
Computation
• Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, “M. Picone”, CNR
Napoli
The scientific programs of CIBB 2015 will include Keynote Speakers,
contributed papers, tutorial and special sessions. The contributed
papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions,
or poster sessions.
Publications
Accepted papers will be published on a flash drive with a specific
ISBN number for the conference proceedings. A selection of papers
presented at CIBB 2015 will appear in a post-conference monograph.
We are in contact with Springer to have them published in the
Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) as usual
for CIBB. Moreover, we are planning to publish the best papers in an
extended form in a special issue of an international scientific
journal.
Important Dates
Tutorial and Special Session Proposal: April 3, 2015
Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2015
Final paper due: July 10, 2015
Conference: September
10-12, 2015
Tutorials and Special Sessions
Tutorial proposals to CIBB, including title, one page long
abstract, and short CV of presenters, are due by April 3, 2015.
Please send proposals to cibb2015@gmail.com.
Special Session proposals to CIBB, including the session's
title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at
least 4 potential authors are due by April 3, 2015. Proposals of
special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they are submitted. A
special session must have at least 4 accepted papers. Please send
proposals to cibb2015@gmail.com
Paper Submission
Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the
CIBB web site and should be long between 4 and 6 pages. Papers
should be submitted in PDF format on the Easy Chair conference
system.
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
- Claudia Angelini, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Italy
- Adriano Decarli, University of Milan, Italy
- Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Sweden.
Biostatistics Technical Chair
- Paola MV Rancoita, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy
Bioinformatics Technical Chair
- Stefano Rovetta, University of Genova, Italy
Special Session and Tutorial Chairs
To be communicated
Local Organizing Committee
Valerio Costa, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Italy
Italia De Feis, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Italy
Angelo Facchiano, Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione, Italy
Publicity Chair
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy & Temple
University, USA
Publication Chair
Riccardo Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni,
Italy
Steering Committee
Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Elia Biganzoli, University of Milan, Italy
Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy & Temple
University, USA
Leif Peterson, TMHRI, Houston, Texas, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy