The Twelfth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2014)
Shanghai, China, 17-19 January, 2014
http://admis.fudan.edu.cn/apbc2014

The Twelfth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference will be held in Shanghai, China.
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, academics, and industrial
practitioners. APBC2014 invites high quality original full papers on any topic related
to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The submitted papers must have not
been published or under the consideration for publication in any other journal or
conference with formal proceedings. All accepted papers will have to be
presented by one of the authors at the conference. Accepted papers will be
invited to be published in IEEE/ACM TCCB, BMC Bioinformatics /
Genomics / Systems Biology following the journals' publication policies.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Sequence analysis, especially high throughput sequencing applications
* Motif search/discovery
* RNA structure and function
* Physical and genetic maps
* Evolution and phylogeny
* Protein structure analysis
* Transcriptome, gene expression
* Proteomics
* Pathways, networks and systems
* Ontologies
* Population genetics/SNP/Haplotyping
* Comparative genomics

Important dates
Full Paper submission: 31 July 2013
Author notification: 15 Sept 2013
Final version due on: 15 Oct 2013
Full paper author registration deadline: 31 Oct 2013

Steering committee
??Phoebe Chen (Chair), La Trobe University, Australia
Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mark Ragan, University of Queensland, Australia
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore
Michael Q Zhang, CHSL, USA and Tsinghua University, China

Honorary Chair
Ruqian Lu (CAS, China)

General Chairs
Luonan Chen (SIBS, CAS, China)
Yixue Li (SIBS, CAS,, China)

PC Chairs
Phoebe Yiping Chen (La Trobe University, Australia)
Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)

Tutorial Chair
Luoxin Zhang (NUS, Singapore)

Poster Chair
Yanni Sun (MSU, USA)

Sponsorship Chair
Jingdong Liu (Monsanto, USA)

Industry Chair
Jun Wang (Huada, China)

Publication Chair
S. Cenk Sahinalp (Simon Frasher University, Canada)

Publicity Chair
Xiang Zhang (West Case Reserve University, USA)

Local Organizing Chair
Jihong Guan (Tongji University, China)