CNB-MAC 2018 - Fifth International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2018)

Next-generation high-throughput profiling technologies have enabled more systematic and comprehensive studies of living systems. Network models play crucial roles in understanding the complex interactions that govern biological systems, and their interactions with external environment. The inference and analysis of such complex networks and network-based analysis of large-scale measurement data have already shown strong potential for unveiling the key mechanisms of complex diseases as well as for designing improved therapeutic strategies. At the same time, the inference and analysis of complex biological networks pose new exciting challenges for computer science, signal processing, control, and statistics. We propose to organize the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2018) in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2018. The previous CNB-MAC workshops have been successfully held in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2014, ACM-BCB 2015, ACM-BCB 2016, ACM- BCB 2017, attracting a fair number of researchers interested in computational network biology.
The workshop aims to provide an international scientific forum for presenting recent advances in computational network biology that involve modeling, analysis, and control of biological systems under different conditions, and system-oriented analysis of large-scale OMICS data. The proposed full-day workshop will solicit (i) highlights that present advances in the field that have been reported in recent journal publications, (ii) extended abstracts for poster presentation at the workshop, which will provide an excellent venue for quick dissemination of the latest research results in computational network biology, and (iii) original research papers that report new research findings that have not been published elsewhere. Full length original research papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in a supplement issue in partner journals that will be identified after the workshop proposal is accepted. The first and the second CNB-MAC workshops have partnered with EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and the third CNB-MAC workshop partnered with BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, and BMC Genomics. The fourth CNB-MAC workshop partnered with BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, BMC Genomics, and IET Systems Biology. The main emphasis of the proposed workshop will be on rigorous mathematical or computational approaches in studying biological networks, analyzing large-scale OMICS data, and investigating mathematical models for human-microbiome- environment interactions.