INVITED SESSION SUMMARY

http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/

Title of Session: Smart Bioinformatics

Chair:

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Associate Professor
The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics-SLU
Husargatan 3
Uppsala Universtiy
SE-751 24 Uppsala
SWEDEN
http://www.anst.uu.se/erikbr/bongcam/Welcome.html

Co-chairs:

Sophia Kossida, Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of
Athens
Soranou Efesiou 4
11527 Athens
GREECE
www.bioacademy.gr/bioinformatics


Terri Attwood, Professor
Faculty of Life Sciences and School of Computer Sciences
B1077, Michael Smith Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PT
UK
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Teresa.k.attwood/

Details of Session:

Aim and Scope
Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to the field of molecular biology. Over the past few decades rapid developments, from one hand, in the technological procedures generating vast amount of data and from the other hand, in the information technologies enabling the handling of these data has brought about this exciting new field termed Bioinformatics which aims to shed light into several biological processes.
This invited session aims to provide a platform for researchers to share their ideas, experience and research outcomes in Bioinformatics.
The field of Bioinformatics being by nature a multi disciplinary field, we encourage submissions addressing Bioinformatics related topics seen from many different perspectives. Authors are invited to submit papers based upon academically rigorous research in both theoretical development and applied research.

Subject Coverage

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
The application of smart systems to the Bioinformatics area
Databases in the field of Bioinformatics
Services & Tools in the field of Bioinformatics
High throughput data storage & analysis
Comparative Genomics
Genome wide association studies
Transcriptomics
Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Protein-protein interactions
Molecular evolution & Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
Bioinformatics using Intelligent and Machine Learning Techniques
Bioinformatics and the revolution in scholarly publishing

Instructions for Prospective Authors
All papers must be original, of high quality and of approximately 6?8 pages in length at the publication stage. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field, and may be accepted for oral presentation. A guide for authors, templates, and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Springer Information for LNCS Authors webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 ).
Full papers and other inquiries must be sent in the form of a pdf file attached to an email, directly to the workshop chair and co-chairs: Erik.Bongcam@hgen.slu.se
skossida@bioacademy.gr
teresa.k.attwood@manchester.ac.uk

Publication

The session papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of the LNCS/LNAI series. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal (http://www.kesinternational.org/journal/ ) (International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems).

Important Dates

Intention: ASAP
Manuscript due: 1 March 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2010
Final paper due: 1 May 2010

Registration deadline for presenting authors: 1 May 2010

At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the main conference KES2010. If the registration fees are not received by 1 May 2010 the paper will not be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI conference proceedings