CIAB 2013 - 3rd Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the field of science in which Biology, Computer Science, and information technology merge to form a single discipline. The ultimate goal of the field is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create a global perspective from which unifying principles in Biology can be discerned. The analysis and interpretation of biological data is an extremely hard task due to their complexity, size and noisy nature. Recent applications of Computational Intelligence (CI) in this area suggest that they are well-suited to this area of research. This workshop will highlight applications of CI to a broad range of topics. Particular interest will be directed towards novel applications of CI approaches to problems in these areas.
Computational Intelligence, a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence, studies, mostly nature inspired, adaptive mechanisms to facilitate intelligent behavior in complex and changing environments. Some of the most important CI representative methods are: Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Ant-colony Optimization, and Fuzzy Systems. Individual techniques from these CI paradigms, as well as hybridizations between CI approaches, have been applied successfully to solve Applied Biology, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology problems.
The aim of CIAB2013 (prlab.ceid.upatras.gr/CIAB2013/) workshop is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists and to deal with problems from the field of Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Chemical Informatics, and Bioengineering. Issues related to the theory of Computational Intelligence techniques, as well as applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be addressed in this workshop in order to motivate research in new trend-setting directions. This is the third year of the existence of the CIAB2013 workshop. CIAB2011 took place in Corfu, Greece, 15-18 September, 2011 at the 12th EANN/7th AIAI Joint Conference (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/eann2011/) and CIAB2012 in London, United Kingdom, 20-23 September, 2012 at the 13th EANN Conference.
CIAB2013 welcomes paper submissions introducing and implementing Computational Intelligent techniques to address various problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Our aim is to bring together researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners from academia to industry working in multi-disciplinary area and technically converging areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Systems Biology
Molecular Sequence Alignment and Analysis
RNA and protein folding and structure prediction
Gene expression analysis from microarrays
Protein-Protein interactions
Biological Networks
Biological Processes
Biological and Medical Ontologies
Computational Proteomics and Genomics
In-silico Optimization of Biological Systems
High-Throughput Data Analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, NGS etc.)
Analysis of Large Biological Data Sets
Medical Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition