evobio 2012 - 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology

10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology
The European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working in Bioinformatics that apply advanced techniques coming from Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, and Data Mining to address important problems in molecular biology, proteomics, genomics and genetics. The primary focus of the conference is to present the latest advances of these approaches for Bioinformatics and to provide a forum for the discussion of new research directions.

In 2012 evobio will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the wonderful location of Màlaga, Spain. The conference will be held in conjunction with the eurogp (15th European Conference on Genetic Programming), evocop (12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation), evomusart (1st European Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design), and evoapplications, the specialist conference on a range of evolutionary computation topics and applications.

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Areas of Interest and Contributions
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

biomarker discovery
cell simulation and modelling
ecological modelling
fluxomics
gene networks
high-throughput biotechnology
metabolomics
microarray analysis
phylogeny
protein interaction
proteomics
sequence analysis and alignment
biological networks analysis
systems biology
Publication Details
Each accepted paper will be presented orally or as a poster at the conference and will be printed in the proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The accepted papers of the previous editions of evobio were published in the Springer Verlag LNCS. The first 4 editions (2003?2006) were published in the LNCS 2611, 3005, 3449, 3907, together with the remaining evoWorkshops. Since 2007 evobio became a evo* conference and its proceedings were published in Springer Verlag LNCS 4447, 4973, 5483, 6023, and 6622 respectively.

Post-conference Journal Publication
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of evobio, we especially encourage submissions applying genetic programming to problems in computational biology and new biology-inspired extensions of the genetic programming framework for a special joint session of evobio with eurogp. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit expanded presentations of their work for a planned EvoBIO special issue of the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.

The authors of papers which receive the best reviews will be nominated for the Best paper Award. Papers nominated for the best paper award will also be invited to expand their publication for post-conference publication on the BioMed Central journal BioData Mining.

Submission Details
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

evobio is interested in papers in three major areas:

Full research articles (maximum 12 pages) describing new methodologies, approaches, and/or applications (oral or poster presentation).
System Demonstrations (maximum 8 pages) outlining the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest for the conference. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.
Short reports (maximum 8 pages) describing new methodologies, approaches, and/or applications (poster presentation).
Abstracts (maximum 4 pages) discussing work previously published in a journal: it is therefore essential that a reference to the previous article was clearly cited in the abstract (oral or poster presentation).
Important Dates
submission deadline: 30 november 2011
evo* event: 11-13 april 2012
Programme Chairs
Mario Giacobini
University of Torino, Italy
mario.giacobini(at)unito.it

Leonardo Vanneschi
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
lvannesc(at)disco.unimib.it

William S. BushVanderbilt
University, Nashville, USA
william.s.bush(at)vanderbilt.edu