BIBM 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM18)

We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics, genomics, and biomedicine. New computational techniques and methods and their application in life science and medical domains are especially encouraged. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution
a. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics
b. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions
c. 3D genome
Computational Systems Biology
a. Pathway Analysis
b. Biological Network Analysis
c. Interactomics
d. Gene Expression and Regulation
e. Post-translational Modifications
f. Alternative Splicing
g. Non-coding RNA Analysis
Next Generation Sequencing and High-throughput Methods
a. Next-Gen Sequencing
b. Microarray Data Analysis
c. SNPs and Haplotype Analysis, GWAS, Personalized Genomics
d. Transcriptomics
e. Metabolomics
f. Proteomics
g. Epigenomics
Cheminformatics and pharmacogenomics
a. Cheminformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Design
b. Molecular Docking
c. Molecular Modeling
d. Pharmacogenomics
Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure
a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization
c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration
d. AI and Machine Learning Methods in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics
e. Big Data Analytics in Biology and Medicine
f. High Performance Computing
Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics of Disease
a. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic Health Record
b. Precision Medicine
c. Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis
d. Genome-Phenome Analysis
e. Biomarker Discovery
f. Pathogen bioinformatics
Healthcare Informatics
a. Healthcare Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
b. Health Data Acquisition, Analysis and Mining
c. Healthcare Information Systems
d. Consumer Informatics
e. Clinical Decision Support and Informatics
Industrial Track
The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Bioinformatics and Biomedicine solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of bioinformatics and biomedicine technologies in industry. We accept full papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (2-4 pages), as well as short abstracts (1 page, 500 words).
Journal special issues: IEEE BIBM has a tradition to publish selected papers as special issues in highly respected journals. We will publish the special issues publications with 8 journals: IEEE Transactions on NanoBiosceince, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Proteomics, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Methods (In the past BIBM conference, the number of special issues are IEEE BIBM 2017: 8 special issues, IEEE BIBM 2016:АУ 9 special issues, IEEE BIBM 2015: 9 special issues, BIBM 2014:АУ 10 special issues, BIBM 2013: 9 special issues, BIBM 2012: 8 special issues, BIBM 2011: special issue, BIBM 2010: 7 special issues, BIBM 2009: АФ4 special issues; BIBM 2008: АФ4 special issues)
Student Travel Award: BIBM 2018 will offer as many as possible student travel awards to student authors (including post-doc). (BIBM 2017: 25/30 student travel award, BIBM2016: 36 student travel award ; BIBM 2015: 30 student travel award, BIBM 2014: 25 student travel awards, BIBM 2013: 40 student travel awards, BIBM 2012: 30 student travel awards, BIBM 2011: 28 student travel awards, BIBM 2010: 22 student travel awards, BIBM 2009: 16 student travel awards )