BCB 2012
Call for Papers
2012 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2012)
October 7-10, 2012, Orlando, FL
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2012
ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB) is the main flagship conference of the ACM SIG Bioinformatics. ACM BCB 2012 is in its third year, building upon the success of ACM BCB 2010 in Niagara Falls and ACM BCB 2011 in Chicago. Each of the conference had about 200 attendees. ACM BCB 2011 will be held in Orlando from October 7-10, 2012.
The conference will provide a premier forum for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. The last two decades have led to a tremendous growth in the size and dimensionality of biological and biomedical data. This conference serves to provide information on leading edge in research in processing, modeling and analyzing these datasets for a variety of applications.
Examples of the topics that will be covered include:
- Genomics and Evolution
- Protein and RNA Structure, Protein Function, and Proteomics
- Computational Systems Biology
- Next Generation Sequencing Data
- Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics
- Cross-Cutting Computational Methods
- Bioinformatics Infrastructure
- Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology
- Computational Epidemiology
- Image Analysis
- Knowledge Representation and Inference
- Integration of Biomedical Data
- Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies
- Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
The following contributions are sought:
- Contributed Papers
- Posters
- Workshops
- Tutorials
Important Dates
Contributed Papers
Abstract submission: May 7, 2012
Paper submission: May 14, 2012
Notifications sent to authors: July 16, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: August 16, 2012
Conference: October 7-10, 2012
Poster presentations
Submission deadline: June 16, 2012
Notification of Acceptance of Posters: July 16, 2012
Workshops
Submission deadline: March 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
Tutorials
Submission deadline: May 21, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: July 16, 2012
Organization
General Chair
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
Program Co-chairs
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida
Mona Singh, Princeton University
Workshop Chair
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University
Publicity chair
Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
Local Arrangement Chairs
Hu Haiyan, Unviersity of Central Florida
Kumar Jha, University of Central Florida
Xiaoning Qian, University of South Florida
Steering Committee
Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, Chair