Call for Papers

is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the design and application of modelling frameworks, algorithmic concepts, computational methods, and information technologies to address challenging problems in Bioinformatics and Biomedical research.
There is a tremendous need to explore how mathematical, statistical and computational techniques can be used to better understand biological processes and systems, while developing new methodologies and tools to analyze the massive currently-available biological data. Areas of interest to this community include systems biology and biological networks (regulatory, neuronal, predator-prey, ecological ones, etc.), sequence analysis, biostatistics, graph models, image analysis, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, structural bioinformatics, computational genomics and proteomics, and related areas.

BIOINFORMATICS encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers. Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Simulation and Modeling
Immuno- and Chemo-Informatics
Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification
Computational Intelligence
Model Design and Evaluation
Transcriptomics
Next Generation Sequencing
Genomics and Proteomics
Sequence Analysis
Structural Bioinformatics
Structure Prediction
Databases and Data Management
Image Analysis
Visualization
Formal Verification of Biological Systems
Computational Neuroscience
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Biostatistics and Stochastic Models
Pharmaceutical Applications
Systems Biology
Algorithms and Software Tools
Web Services in Bioinformatics
Computational Molecular Systems

BIOSTEC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Athanasios Tsanas, Usher Institute, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Thomas Ostermann, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Mireya Fernández Chimeno, Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Tiago Guerreiro, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 11 - 13 February, 2021

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: October 6, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: November 12, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: November 26, 2020 (expired)

Position Papers

Paper Submission: November 5, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: December 4, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: December 18, 2020 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: November 26, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: December 18, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: December 28, 2020 (expired)

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: September 23, 2020 (expired)

Doctoral Consortium

Paper Submission: December 9, 2020 (expired)

Authors Notification: December 28, 2020 (expired)

Camera Ready and Registration: January 5, 2021 (expired)

Special Sessions

Special Session Proposal: September 23, 2020 (expired)

Tutorials

Tutorial Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

Demos

Demo Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

Panels

Panel Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

BIOINFORMATICS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: bioinformatics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://bioinformatics.scitevents.org

BIOSTEC CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), Portugal
Hugo Gamboa, LIBPhys, Physics Department, Nova School of Science and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Ronny Lorenz, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry - Bioinformatics Group, University of Vienna, Austria

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mohamed Abouelhoda, Center for Informatics Sciences, Nile University, Egypt
Carlos Abreu, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Tatsuya Akutsu, Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Payam Behzadi, Department of Microbiology College of Basic of Sciences Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityFath Highway End of Shahid Kalhor Blvd, Shahr-e-Qods, Tehran, Iran, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Shifra Ben-Dor, Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Gilles Bernot, I3S laboratory, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Pawel Blazej, Department of Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Wroclaw University, Poland
Rita Casadio, Biocomputing Group FABIT, University of Bologna, Italy
Matthias Chung, Mathematics, Virginia Tech, United States
Jean-Paul Comet, Univesité Côte d'Azur, France
Keith A. Crandall, Computational Biology Institute, George Washington University, United States
Thomas Dandekar, dept. of bioinformatics, University of Würzburg, Germany
Maria Evelina Fantacci, Department of Physics, University of Pisa and INFN, Italy
Alexandru G. Floares, Biomedical Informatics, SAIA, Romania
Liliana Florea, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Dmitrij Frishman, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Ronaldo F. Hashimoto, Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Volkhard Helms, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Asier Ibeas, Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Giuseppe Jurman, MPBA, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Jirí Kléma, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic
Ivan V. Kulakovskiy, IPR RAS, Russian Federation
Yinglei Lai, Department of Statistics, George Washington University, United States
Man-Kee Lam, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Antonio LaTorre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Carlile Lavor, Applied Math, University of Campinas, Brazil
Pawel Mackiewicz, Department of Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Wroclaw University, Poland
Elena Marchiori, Computer Science, Radboud University, Netherlands
Johnny Marques, Computer Science Division, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
Giancarlo Mauri, Informatics, Systems and Communication, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Paolo Milazzo, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
Jason R. Miller, Shepherd University, United States
Chilukuri K. Mohan, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, Syracuse University, United States
José M. Molina, Computer Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Jean-Christophe Nebel, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Hakan S. Orer, Pharmacology, Koc University School of Medicine, Turkey
Oscar Pastor, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos Y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Matteo Pellegrini, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Gianfranco Politano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Javier Reina-Tosina, Signal Theory and Communications, University of Seville, Spain
Laura Roa, Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Seville, Spain
Vincent Rodin, UBO, LabSTICC/CNRS, France
Ulrich Rückert, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany
J. Cristian Salgado, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chile, Chile
Alessandro Savino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrew Schumann, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
Noor Akhmad Setiawan, Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
João C. Setubal, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Anne Siegel, IRISA Computer Science Department. Univ Rennes., CNRS, France
Christine Sinoquet, Computer Science, University of Nantes, France
Sylvain Soliman, Inria Saclay, France
Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany
Peter Sykacek, Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Piotr Szczepaniak, Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Y-H. Taguchi, Department of Physics, Chuo University, Japan
Arkadiusz Tomczyk, Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

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