The 21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will bring together top researchers, practitioners, academics, and students from around the globe to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence and other areas of artificial intelligence as applied to real-world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering, and related fields.

Computational intelligence approaches include artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid algorithms, and other emerging techniques.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology
Computational epidemiology
Surrogate modeling and representation
Systems and synthetic biology
Structure prediction and protein folding
Modeling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems
Epigenomics
Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
scRNA-seq analysis
Evolution, phylogeny
Comparative genomics
Gene expression array analysis
Metabolic pathway analysis
Sequence alignment
Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Bioprocessing, and Healthcare Informatics
Drug discovery
Legal aspects of computational intelligence in medicine
Ethics, fairness, biases
Explainability/interpretability/understandability
Sustainability
Personalized medicine
Medical imaging and pattern recognition
Biomedical data modeling/data mining/model parametrization
Parallel/high-performance computing
Biomarker discovery and development
Health data acquisition/analysis/mining
Healthcare information systems/knowledge representation/reasoning