BICB 2012 - 2nd Annual International Conference on BioInformatics and Computational Biology (BICB 2012)

[KEY TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:]

? Genome assembly
? Genome and chromosome annotation
? Gene finding, alternative splicing
? Genotype calling.
? EST analysis
? Comparative genomics
? Molecular dynamics and simulation
? Molecular interactions
? Molecular sequence classification
? Molecular sequence & structure databases
? Sequence analysis and clustering
? RNA and DNA structure sequencing
? Phylogeny estimation
? Comparative biological methods
? Population genetics
? Structural Bioinformatics
? Microarrays
? Linkage analysis
? Association analysis
? Population simulation,
? Haplotyping
? Marker discovery
? Systems biology
? Molecular biology
? Pultiscale modeling
? Combinatorics and bioinformatics
? Biological databases & information retrieval
? Bio-ontologies and semantics
? Biological data integration and visualization

? Biological data mining and knowledge

discovery
? Informatics & Statistics in Biopharmaceutical

Research
? Tools and methods for computational

biology and bioinformatics
? Protein modeling
? Proteomics; Protein folding and

fold recognition
? Metabolic modeling and pathways
? Evolution and phylogenetics
? Macromolecular structure prediction
? Medical informatics
? Epidemic models
? Structural and functional genomics
? Amino acid sequencing
? Stochastic modeling
? Cheminformatics
? Computational drug discovery
? Experimental medicine and analysis tools.
? Personalized medicine
? Cancer informatics
? Graph theory and computational biology
? Experimental studies and results
? Application of computational intelligence in

drug design
? High-performance computing & applications

in biology

StemCell Topics are:

Modeling stem cells
Population dynamics of human ES cells: self renewal, adaptation and cancer
Human embryonic stem cells and human genetic disorders
Induced pluripotent stem cells and research into aging
Extrinsic Factors Regulating Stem
Intrinsic Factors Regulating Stem Cell Behaviour
Proliferation and Differentiation of Adult Stem
Tumor Stem Cells
Pluripotency and Stem Cell Plasticity
Regenerative Strategies
Asymmetric cell division
Using iPS cells for studying neurodegeneration
Nuclear reprogramming
Stem cell-niche interactions
Reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotency using small molecules
Epithelial, neural and hematopoietic stem cells
Induced pluripotency without virus
Mechanisms and treatments of monogenic diseases through pluripotent stem cells
Reprogramming and plasticity