2012 International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB2012)

  International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB2012)

The 8th annual meeting

2nd-4th April, 2012, Hangzhou, China

The 2012 International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB2012) will be held in April 2012 at Hangzhou, China.

    Biological data are scattered across thousands of biological databases and hundreds of scientific journals. Current high throughput genomics technologies generate large quantities of high dimensional data. Microarray, NMR, mass spectrometry, protein chips, gel electrophoresis data, Yeast-Two-Hybrid, QTL mapping, gene silencing, and knockout experiments are all examples of technologies that capture thousands of data points, often in single experiments. The challenge for Integrative Bioinformatics is to capture, model, integrate, and analyse these data in a consistent way to provide new and deeper insights into complex biological systems.

This eighth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches, and their practical applications. IB2012 is organized by Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The main topics will be:

Combined dry and wet lab studies

Computational infrastructure for biotechnology

Computational systems biology

Data visualisation and visual analytics

Database integration

Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases

Genotype¨Cphenotype linkage

Integrative approaches for drug design

Integrative data and text mining approaches

Integrative microarray modeling and analyses

Integrative modelling and simulation frameworks

Laboratory information management systems

Molecular databases / Data warehouses

Network analysis

Next-Generation Sequencing in genomics

Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks

Protein-protein interactions

Protein structure prediction and drug design

Quality and consistency of biological ontology

Tool integration and workflow systems

Virtual cell

IMPORTANT DATES

1st February 2012: Full paper submission deadline.

15th February 2012: Poster and software submission deadline.

28th February 2012: Notification of acceptance for full papers, poster and software demo abstracts.

15th March 2012: Camera ready submission deadline.

15th March 2012: Last date for early registration.

2nd - 4th April 2012: Conference.

Please, put the date in your personal meeting calendars.

PUBLICATION

Accepted full papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics and the abstracts will be available as printed conference proceedings.

FOR DETAILS, PLEASE REFER http://www.imbio.de/ib2012/