Held in conjunction with
2009 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
18-20 May 2009 - Ischia, Italy
In the post-genomic era the vast mass of biological data is growing more than ever before. The creation of automatic tools and techniques to organize, analyze and, most of all, unravel the underlying information is one of the most searched and less well solved problems in biological and computational sciences. Pushing forward current boundaries between existing solutions and innovative ideas is the only way to fill the gap between what we know and what we understand.
The main goal of this workshop is to provide to researchers from computational and biological disciplines a meeting point to present and discuss their ideas and innovative solutions to old unsolved problems and new challenges concerning computational issues in biology, with a particular focus on heuristic and approximated algorithms, machine learning and other soft computing methods.
Authors are invited to submit papers in one of the following technical areas:
• Automatic methods for analysis of biological data: sequence analysis,
promoter analysis and identification of transcription factor binding sites, gene expression data analysis,
alternative splicing analysis
• Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation of structures discovered in bio-molecular data
• Prediction of protein structures
• Methods for comparative genomics
• Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
• Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems
• Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics
• Bio-molecular databases and data mining
• Software tools for bioinformatics