The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods an Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems and information technologies to the field of molecular biology, including for example the use of statistics and algorithms to understanding biological processes and systems, with a focus on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. Areas of interest for this community include sequence analysis, biostatistics, image analysis, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, computational genomics and other related fields.

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.

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

› Bruno Sobral, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, U.S.A.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
The proceedings of BIOINFORMATICS 2010 are under evaluation by EI, and the proceedings of BIOINFORMATICS 2011 will be evaluated after their publication.

› Conference date: 26-29 January, 2011

› Regular Paper Submission: July 23, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): October 01, 2010
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 22, 2010

› Position Paper Submission: September 27, 2010
› Authors Notification (position papers): October 20, 2010
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: October 29, 2010

BIOINFORMATICS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 5436
e-mail: bioinformatics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/

Marco Pellegrini, IIT-CNR, Italy

Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Kiyoshi Asai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Rolf Backofen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Germany
Tim Beissbarth, University of Göttingen, Germany
Carlos Brizuela, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Chris Bystroff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
Antoine Danchin, AMAbiotics, France
Thomas Dandekar, University of Würzburg, Germany
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Francisco Domingues, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Richard Edwards, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
George Eleftherakis, CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece
Nadia El-Mabrouk, Université de Montréal, Canada
Liliana Florea, University of Maryland, United States
Gianluigi Folino, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council, Italy
Julian Gough, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Michael Habeck, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Salima Hassas, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Daniel Howard, QinetiQ, United Kingdom
Bo Jin, Medical University of South Carolina, United States
Yuki Kato, Kyoto University, Japan
Sophia Kossida, Academy of Athens, Greece
Dwight Kuo, University of California, San Diego, United States
Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands
Carlo Mastroianni, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council, Italy
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy
John McCall, The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Burkhard Morgenstern, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Kay Nieselt, University of Tubingen, Germany
José Luis Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Matteo Pellegrini, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Esa Pitkänen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, United States
Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University, United States
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marylyn Ritchie, Vanderbilt University, United States
Eric Rivals, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
Juho Rousu, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Yvan Saeys, Ghent University, Belgium
Victor Solovyev, University of London, United Kingdom
Tatiana Tatusova,  , United States
Silvio C.E. Tosatto, Università di Padova, Italy
Thomas Wilhelm, Institute of Food Research, United Kingdom
Yanbin Yin, UNIVERSITY of GEORGIA, United States
Jingkai Yu, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Erliang Zeng, University of Notre Dame, United States
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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