Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Conference on Bioinformatics

The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine
(ACM BCB) is the main conference of the newly formed ACM SIG Bioinformatics.

This is the second year of the ACM BCB Conference. Over 200 people attended
ACM BCB 10, which took in Niagara Falls, NY on August 2-4, 2010.

Workshop proposals: Feb. 1, 2011
Paper submission: March 1, 2011
Acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready: May 1, 2011

Four Journal Special Issues:
o BMC Bioinformatics
o Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
o Journal of Biomedince and Biotechnology (pending approval)
o ACM SIG Bioinformatics Newsletter


ACM BCB 11 will be held in Chicago at the Hilton Suites Chicago –
Magnificent Mile from August 1-3, 2011. The conference welcomes high
quality, original research papers. Papers should contain new algorithms or
novel computational approaches in the broad areas of bioinformatics,
computational biology and biomedicine. Papers that use existing
computational techniques in new and interesting ways leading to novel
biological discoveries are also welcome.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Genomics: Structural, Functional, and Comparative
• Molecular Networks: Proteomics, Transcriptomics & Metabolomics
• Phylogenetics at Gene and Genome Levels
• Computational Systems Biology
• Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology
• Computational Epidemiology
• Biomedical and Translational Informatics
• Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies for Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning, Image Analysis, Knowledge Representation and Inference
• Integration of Biomedical Data
• Text Mining and Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine
• Hardware and Software Infrastructure for Biomedicine

General Chairs
Robert Grossman, U of Chicago
Andrey Rzhetsky, U of Chicago
Program Chairs
Sun Kim, Indiana U Bloomington
Wei Wang, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Workshop Chairs
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State U and NSF
Taner Sen, USDA
Treasurer
Aidong Zhang, State U of New York at Buffalo
Publicity Chairs
Eneida Mendonca, U of Chicago
Tutorial Chair
Michael Krauthammer, Yale U
Proceedings Chair
Li Liao, U of Delaware
Posters Chair
Jie Liang, UIC
Panel Chairs
Cathy Wu, U of Delaware
Sanjay Ranka, U of Florida
Best Paper Award Chair
Saurabh Sinha, UIUC
Local Arrangements
Shirley Connelly, UIC
Cindy Rogowski U of Chicago