[DMANET] IEEE CIM: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (Submission Deadline 15th November 2017)

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Special Issue in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (IEEE CIM)
on Computational Intelligence Techniques in Bioinformatics and
Bioengineering

https://tinyurl.com/IEEE-CIM-SI-CITBB2018
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*Aims and scope*

The focus of the special issue is on emerging topics at the interface of
computational intelligence, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering.

This is a rich area that includes important and diverse problems, such as
protein structure prediction, systems and synthetic biology, visualization
of large-scale biological data sets, epigenomics, as well as touches on a
vast range of topics in biomedical engineering, bioprocessing and
healthcare informatics, such as biomedical imaging/data modelling and
mining, biomarker discovery, development of personalized medicine and
treatment, mining of big healthcare dataset, biopharmaceutical manufacture
and computer-assisted closed-loop problems.

The computational intelligence community in bioinformatics and
bioengineering is fragmented and large. The aim of the special issue will
be to capture some of the ongoing interdisciplinary research that draws
upon joint expertise in the domains of optimization and learning via
computational intelligence techniques and bioinformatics and
bioengineering. The focus is to provide both breadth in the diversity of
selected problems and depth in state-of-the-art techniques for selected
problems.

*Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to)*

· Evolution, phylogeny, comparative genomics

· Gene expression array analysis

· Metabolic pathway analysis

· MicroRNA analysis

· Molecular sequence alignment and analysis

· Pattern recognition/data mining/optimization methods in
Bioinformatics

· Visualization of large biological data sets

· Systems and synthetic biology

· Structure prediction and folding

· Modelling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems

· Biological network reconstruction/robustness/evolvability

· Epigenomics

· Medical imaging and pattern recognition

· Biomedical data modelling/data mining/model parametrization

· Parallel/high performance computing

· Big data analysis and tools for biological and medical data

· Biomarker discovery and development

· Health data acquisition/analysis/mining

· Healthcare information systems/knowledge representation/reasoning

· Personalized medicine and treatment optimization

· Biopharmaceutical manufacturing

· Closed-loop optimization methods/platforms

*Submission Process*

The IEEE CIM requires all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts
in electronic format, as a PDF file. The maximum length for papers is
typically 20 double-spaced typed pages with 12 point font, including
figures and references. Submitted manuscript must be typewritten in English
in single column format. Authors of papers should specify on the first page
of their submitted manuscript up to 5 keywords. Additional information
about submission guidelines and information for authors is provided at the IEEE
CIM website
<http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-computational-intelligence-magazine/134-ieee-computational-intelligence-magazine-paper-submission-guidelines-and-information-for-authors.html>
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Please submit your paper via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecimcitbb2018.

*Important dates*

15th November, 2017: Submission of manuscript

15th January, 2018: Notification of review results

15th February, 2018: Submission of revised manuscript

15th March, 2018: Submission of final manuscript

*August 2018: Publication*

*Guest Editors*

Richard Allmendinger

University of Manchester, UK

e-mail: richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk

Daniel Ashlock

University of Guelph, Canada

Email: dashlock@uoguelph.ca

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul

Chiang Mai University, Thailand

email: sansanee@eng.cmu.ac.th

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