Computational Biology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering (LS&BE 2013)

7-9 November, 2013 Osaka, Japan 

The 2nd International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering (LS&BE 2013) will be held in Osaka, Japan during November 7-9, 2013. The aim objective of LS&BE 2013 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Networking and Digital Society. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

All the submitted papers in these proceedings have been peer reviewed by at least two reviewers drawn from the chairs of committees depending on the subject matter of the paper. Reviewing and initial selection were undertaken electronically. A joint committee meeting was held to resolve the final paper selection and a draft programme for the conference.

Key Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: August 20, 2013

Abstract Acceptance Notification: September 10, 2013

Pre-registration Deadline:  September 30, 2013

Conference Dates:  November 7-9, 2013

Main Topics:

The conference theme includes, but not limited to, the following topics:

Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences

Biology and neuroscience

Biological Sciences (Botany, Forestry, Cell Biology, Marine Biology, Zoology)

Genetics and Human Genetics

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

Anatomy

Biochemistry

Computational Biology

Biology

Systems Biology

Bioscience Engineering

Genetics and Human Genetics

Microbiology Food Engineering

Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology Physiology and Biology Health Sciences

Pharmaceutical Science

Aerobiology

Astrobiology

Building biology

Cell biology

Conservation Biology

Developmental biology

Environmental Biology

Evolutionary Biology

Marine Biology

Microbiology

Molecular Biology

Pathobiology

Structural biology

Affective neuroscience

Biobehavioral science

Biomedical science

Biochemistry

Biocomputers

Biocontrol

Biodynamics

Bioinformatics

Biology

Biomaterials

Biomechanics

Biomonitoring

Biophysics

Biopolymers

Botany

Cell biology

Contact us:

Email: lsbe@lsbe.org

Call for Papers: 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research. GENSIPS 2013 will also provide best paper awards to students with outstanding technical contributions.

Papers on original research in computational biology and bioinformatics are solicited. Abstracts for poster presentation are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Deep sequencing data analysis

Methods for analyzing SNP/genotype/epigenetic data

LC/MS data analysis and proteomics

Cancer genomics and cancer drug screening

Functions of microRNA and non-coding RNAs

Differential analysis of molecular regulatory networks

Functional meta-genomics and biomolecular dynamics in microbial communities

Dynamics and control of genetic regulatory networks

Modeling of cancer evolution and intra-tumoral heterogeneity

Modeling of genetic networks and signaling pathways

Travel and best paper awards sponsored by National Science Foundation will be provided to student/post doctoral authors of papers with exceptional quality.

Paper Submission: All submitted papers (up to 4 pages) will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings that will be archived in IEEE Xplore. Authors of papers of exceptional quality will be invited to submit a journal version to a special issue of a high-quality journal.

Important Deadlines

Aug. 2, 2013 Full papers due; proposal for special session due

Sep. 9, 2013 Notification of Acceptance

Oct. 21, 2013 Poster abstract due

Oct. 28, 2013 Camera Ready paper due and early registration

Nov. 17-19, 2013 GENSIPS 2013

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

Call for Papers & Abstracts: PSB'14 Cancer Panomics Session

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2014

January 3-7, 2014 The Big Island of Hawaii

Session tutorial: January 3, 2014

Computational methods and infrastructure for integrative analysis of cancer high-throughput “omics” data to enable precision oncology

Full paper submission deadline:  July 31, 2013

Session Aims

We aim to explore the computational needs to enable precision oncology through cancer panomics, and to encourage computational biologists in academia and industry to come together to tackle the hard problems to implement such a vision. We seek original contributions that discuss new methods or algorithms/infrastructure able to integrate two or more “omics” and/or clinical data types aimed to enable precision medicine in individual cancer patients (as opposed to pattern finding algorithms for cross-sectional studies). Submission could also formally pose a novel problem in cancer integrative analysis that the community will need to address, but more often will describe algorithms, models, and original solutions to a specific data integration analysis problem in cancer.

Possible submission topics:

Integrative analysis of high-throughput "omics" data from related samples or data types

Pathway disruption analysis by combining data from different "omics" sources in single patients

Joint analysis of "omics" data, literature, clinical trial data, and medical records

Data structures & systems to enable big-data integrative analysis in patients