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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                Bioinformatics @ BIONETICS 2007 

                2nd International Conference on
Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

                 http://www.bionetics.org/
           Budapest, Hungary, December 10-13, 2007
      
 Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, IEEE CIS, and IEEE SMC
              In co-operation with ACM SIGCAS 
         
            Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST 

    *** Submission deadline (extended): August 15, 2007 ***
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This is the first year of a track in Bioinformatics as part of the Bionetics conference. The aim is a closer relationship between researchers using biology as inspiration for computation and those using computation to study biology. In some cases, these methods have come full circle, as when biologically inspired computational intelligence methods are in turn used to analyze biological data.

The Bioinformatics track aims at attracting research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology. Typical, but not exclusively, the topics of interest are:

- Molecular sequence analysis
- Molecular evolution
- Recognition of genes and regulatory elements
- Gene expression analysis
- RNA and Protein structure
- Structural genomics
- Gene networks
- Drug design
- Computational proteomics
- Structural and functional genomics

All submitted papers will be rigorously peer reviewed by at least two international referees.

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages, or short papers
of up to 4 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS
(http://cocus.create-net.it). The proceedings will be an ICST publication and
the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI

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Important dates:
  Submission deadline:      August 15, 2007 
  Acceptance notification:  September 18, 2007
  Camera ready paper:       November 1, 2007
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Committees:

General Chairs:
    Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen

Steering Committee Chair:
    Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET

Steering Committee Co-Chair:
	Iacopo Carreras, CREATE-NET

Bioinformatics Advisory Chair:
    Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser Univ.

Bioinformatics Track Co-Chairs:
    Scott Smith, Boise State Univ.
    Alioune Ngom, Univ. of Windsor

Technical Program Committee

Xue-Wen Chen, Univ. of Kansas
Kuo-Sheng Cheng, National Cheng Kung Univ.
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung Univ.
David W. Corne, Heriot-Watt Univ.
Mark Daley, Univ. of Western Ontario
Hai-Bin Duan, Beihang Univ.
Gary Fogel, Natural Selection Inc. Christoph Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
Jennifer Hallinan, Newcastle Univ.
Lutz Hamel, Univ. of Rhode Island
Ji He, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Inc.
Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State Univ.
Jim  Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Elena Marchiori, Vrije Univ.
Tshilidzi Marwala, Univ. of the Witswatersrand
Fernando B.L.Neto, Univ. de Pernambuco
Alioune Ngom, Univ. of Windsor
Jon D. Patrick, Univ. of Sydney
Mihail Popescu, Univ. of Missouri
Luis Rueda, Univ. de Concepcion
Hong Seo Ryoo, Korea Univ.
Heike Sichtig, Binghampton Univ.
Scott Smith, Boise State Univ.
Akira Suyama, Univ. of Tokyo
El-Ghazali Talbi, Centre National de Recherche Scienctifique
Marcel Turcotte, Univ. of Ottawa
Gwenn Volkert, Kent State Univ.
Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser Univ.
Anil Wipat, Univ. of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Dan Wu, University of Windsor
Patrick X. Zhao, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Inc.


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