BICOB-2020

12^th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

March 23-25, 2020 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Francisco Airport, California, USA 

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline (extended): November 30, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2019

Pre-registration: January 15, 2020

Camera-ready Manuscripts: January 31, 2020

Paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2020

Conference website: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/bicob20/

 Significant advances have been witnessed in most areas of bioinformatics and computational biology in recent years, and BICOB-2020 is one of the conference venues for all areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and medical informatics.  BICOB-2020 is the 12th year of the conference and will be held between 23-25 March 2020 in San Francisco, CA, USA.  It is one of the front platforms for disseminating latest research results and techniques in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, and medical informatics. BICOB-2020 seeks original and high-quality contributions in the fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology, medical informatics and the related areas. The conference includes a Best Paper Award to be presented during the conference banquet. We also encourage work in progress and research results in the emerging and evolutionary computational areas. The topics of interest include (and are not limited to): 

• Genome analysis: Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics, genome and chromosome annotation, gene finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis, and comparative genomics.
• Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and clustering, next-generation sequencing NGS, function prediction, motif discovery, functional site recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.
• Phylogenetics: Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution, comparative biological methods, and population genetics.
• Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale modeling, pathways, gene networks, transcriptomics - microarray data analysis, proteomics, and epigenomics.
• Healthcare Informatics: Healthcare data analysis and mining. Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information systems.
• Structural Bioinformatics: Structure matching, prediction, analysis and comparison; methods for docking; protein design.
• Analysis of high-throughput biological data: Microarrays (protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS, proteomics, mass spectrometry, query languages, interoperability, bio-ontology, and bio-data mining.
• Genetics and population analysis: Linkage analysis, association analysis, population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, and genotype calling.

 Submission Procedures:

Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission in PDF format.  A full paper, including title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, and email of the principal author, should be submitted online at the submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bicob2020 on or before November 30, 2019.  The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings published in the EasyChair EPiC Series, which will be a maximum of 10 pages (+4 pages with additional page fees) in EasyChair EPiC Series format (Templates available at http://isca-hq.org/isca.php?p=Conferences, on the bottom of the page). Accepted papers will be published fully online by EasyChair EPiC Series (full text pdf will be available online) and will be indexed in Scopus, EI, and INSPEC. Moreover, all BICOB-2020 papers will also be searchable and available online at https://www.searchdl.org and will appear in Google Scholar full text.

 Journal Publication:

Authors of selected high-quality papers in BICOB-2020 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in bioinformatics journals including the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB) (selected papers in previous several BICOB conferences were published in JBCB).

 For more information, please contact:

 Program Chairs:

Qin Ding - Email: dingq@ecu.edu Tel: +1-252-328-9686

Oliver Eulenstein - Email: oeulenst@iastate.edu Tel: +1-515-294-2407

 Conference Chair:

Hisham Al-Mubaid - Email: hisham@uhcl.edu Tel: +1-281-283-3802

 Publicity Chair:

Nurit Haspel - Email: nurit.haspel@umb.edu Tel: +1-617-287-6414