CIBB 2023: 18th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Padova, Italy, September 6-8, 2023

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages) describing their original contributions in the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, and medical informatics. Submitted contributions will undergo peer review before acceptance. All accepted contributions will be presented in plenary oral sessions and special sessions. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to post their short papers on preprint servers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, or medRxiv.The conference proceedings will be shared among the participants during the conference. The proceedings will not be indexed on Scopus, but, after the conference, the authors of all the accepted short papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts to the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), or to a supplement in a journal such as BMC Bioinformatics or BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

List of Topics

• Applications of machine learning to bioinformatics or health datasets
• Data mining methods in biomedical contexts
• Artificial intelligence in biomedicine
• Next generation sequencing bioalgorithms
• Multi-omics data analysis
• Statistical analysis of high dimensional omics data
• Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
• Methods for the visualisation of high dimensional biomedical data
• Software tools for bioinformatics
• Methods for comparative genomics
• Computational tools for proteomics
• Simulation of biological systems and clinical populations
• Methods for the functional classification of genes
• Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
• Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation, and visualisation of structures discovered in bio-molecular data
• Health informatics and medical informatics
• Biomedical and microscopy imaging
• Methods for the integration of clinical, genetic, or environmental data
• Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion
• Algorithms for pharmacogenomics
• Biomedical text mining and natural language processing
• Bayesian methods for medical and biological data
• Health big data analytics
• Data-driven approaches for patient stratification, and prognosis or onset prediction
• Process mining in healthcare
• Information retrieval, and temporal and spatial representation and reasoning in biomedicine
• Simulation models, software, and tools (clinical decision support systems, patient engagement support, visual analytics, solutions for assisted living, and telemedicine)
• Biomedical signal processing
• Explainable AI and clinical model interpretation
• Personalised medicine for diagnosis and prognosis
• Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data
• Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
• Advanced pathway enrichment analysis methods
• Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
• Bio-molecular databases and data mining
• Mathematical modelling and automated reasoning on biological and synthetic systems
• Computational simulation of biological systems
• Methods and advances in systems biology
• Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems
• Network systems biology
• Models for cell populations and tissues
• Methods for the engineering of synthetic components
• Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems
• Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology
• Computational drug discovery
• Operational research in healthcare and bioinformatics

Committees

General Chairs

• Martina Vettoretti, University of Padova, Italy
• Erica Tavazzi, University of Padova, Italy
• Enrico Longato, University of Padova, Italy

Biostatistics Chair

• Glen Philip Martin, University of Manchester, UK

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Chair

• Federica Eduati, TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Medical informatics Chair

• Roberto Gatta, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Advisory Board

• Elia Biganzoli, Università Statale di Milano, Italy
• Davide Chicco, University of Toronto, Canada
• Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy
• Giovanni Sparacino, University of Padova, Italy
• Roberto Tagliaferri, Università di Salerno, Italy

CIBB Steering Committee

• Roberto Tagliaferri, Università di Salerno, Italy
• Davide Chicco, University of Toronto, Canada
• Francesco Masulli, Università di Genova, Italy
• Elia Biganzoli, Università Statale di Milano, Italy
• Clelia Di Serio, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy
• Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA
• Alexandru Floares, Solutions of Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, Romania
• Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, England
• Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
• Leif Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, USA

CIBB Local Committee

• Michele Atzeni, University of Padova, Italy
• Giacomo Baruzzo, University of Padova, Italy
• Massimo Bellato, University of Padova, Italy
• Giulia Cesaro, University of Padova, Italy
• Alessandro Guazzo, University of Padova, Italy
• Mikele Milia, University of Padova, Italy
• Isotta Trescato, University of Padova, Italy

Venue

The CIBB 2023 conference will take place in the "Cittadella dello Studente" ("Student Citadel") at the Multifunctional Psychology Hub of the University of Padova, in the T3 room of the University Language Center (CLA) located in Via Venezia 16, ground floor.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cibb2023@dei.unipd.it