AlCoB 2016 - 3rd International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.
Previous events were held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015).
The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:
1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,
2) identifying gene structures in the genome,
3) recognizing regulatory motifs,
4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,
5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and
6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
Venue
AlCoB 2016 will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called "conquistadores" who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue will be the Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies.
Scope
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
?Exact sequence analysis
?Approximate sequence analysis
?Pairwise sequence alignment
?Multiple sequence alignment
?Sequence assembly
?Genome rearrangement
?Regulatory motif finding
?Phylogeny reconstruction
?Phylogeny comparison
?Structure prediction
?Compressive genomics
?Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks
?Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
?Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
?Microbiome analysis
?Systems biology
Structure of the Conference
AlCoB 2016 will consist of:
?invited lectures
?invited tutorials
?peer-reviewed contributions
Submission
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2016.