The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB) 2009 invites submission of original papers in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2009 aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, microbiology, and medicine.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
- Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining
- Biomedical Text Mining
- Structural, Comparative, and Functional Genomics
- Protein Structure, Modeling, and Simulation
- Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression Analysis
- Gene and Protein Interaction and Networks
- Molecular Docking
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
- Computational Systems Biology
- Computational Proteomics
- Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
- Algorithms for Problems in Computational Biology
- Applications on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology and associated subjects.