BIO 2013 - ACM-SAC 2013 CONFERENCE TRACK ON BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (BIO)

For the past twenty-six years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2013 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra (ISR-FCTUC), and Mathematical and Computer Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (ICMC-USP). The conference will be held at the Institute of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra.
TRACK DESCRIPTION
The track aims at proposing a multi-sides perspective to computational biology, bioinformatics and theoretical systems biology. All these three areas involve the development and application of analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological sciences. Currently, the application field of mathematical and computer science investigation methods to the life sciences are not limited to theoretical modeling in biochemistry, molecular biology and epidemiological biomathematics. Now bioinformatics and computational biology extend also to larger scale systems like ecological systems and include more applicative fields such as pharmacology, medicine, clinical trials design, healthcare and environment, and very recently nutritional science like nutrigenomics and molecular nutrition.