BIBM 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2016 (BIBM 2016)

We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) on any aspect of bioinformatics, biomedicine and healthcare informatics. New computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining; text analysis; pattern recognition; knowledge representation; databases; data modeling; combinatorics; stochastic modeling; string and graph algorithms; linguistic methods; robotics; constraint satisfaction; data visualization; parallel computation; data integration; modeling and simulation and their application in life science domain are especially encouraged. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
1. Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution
a. Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics
b. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics
c. SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS
d. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions
2. Computational Systems Biology
a. Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis
b. Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway Analysis
c. Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics
d. Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation analysis
3. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics
a. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic Health Record
b. Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis
c. Genome-Phenome Analysis
d. Biomarker Discovery
4. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure
a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization
c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration
d. High Performance Computing
5. Healthcare Informatics
a. Healthcare knowledge representation & reasoning
b. Health data acquisition, analysis and mining
c. Healthcare information systems
d. Clinical Decision Support and Informatics
INDUSTRIAL Track
The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Bioinformatics and Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in industry. We accept full papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well as short abstracts (1 page, 500 words).
? Journal special issues: IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. We will publish the special issues publications with 8 journals: IEEE Transactions on NanoBiosceince, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Methods (In the past BIBM conference, the number of special issues is: BIBM 2014 ? 10 special issues, BIBM 2013 ?9 special issues, BIBM 2012?8 special issues, BIBM 2011?8 special issue, BIBM 2010?7 special issues, BIBM 2009?4 special issues; BIBM 2008?4 special issues)
? Student Travel Award: BIBM 2016 will offer as many as possible student travel awards to student authors (including post-doc). We have received a NSF grant for student travel award and expect to offer 25-30 student travel awards. (BIBM 2014?25 student travel awards, BIBM 2013?40 student travel awards, BIBM 2012 -30 student travel awards, BIBM 2011?28 student travel awards, BIBM 2010-22 student travel awards, BIBM 2009?16 student travel awards )