(Posted by Ka-Chun Wong, http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~wkc/)

The Fourteenth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2016) will be held in San Francisco, USA. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, academics, and industrial practitioners. APBC2016 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, BMC genomics, BMC Systems Biology, and Computational Biology and Chemistry following each journal's publication policy.

Call for Papers

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Sequence analysis, especially high-throughput sequencing applications
Biostatistics
Genomics, Epigenetics, Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics
RNA structure and function
Comparative genomics, Population genetics
Evolution and phylogeny
Protein structure analysis
Systems biology, Synthetic biology, Quantitative biology

Organization

* General Co-Chairs
Jing Huang, Ph.D. (Veracyte, USA)
Ying Lu, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
Philip Bourne, Ph.D. (NIH/OD, USA)

* Local Organization Chairs
Jing Huang, Ph.D. (Veracyte, USA)
Hua Tang, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Haiyan Huang, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, USA)


* PC Co-Chairs
Lu Tian, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
Jijun Tang, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina, USA)
Phoebe Chen, Ph.D. (La Trobe University, Australia)

APBC2016 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.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
High-throughput sequencing applications
Biostatistics and precision medicine
Integrative omics data analysis
RNA structure and function
Comparative genomics and population genetics
Evolution and phylogeny
Protein structure analysis
Systems, synthetic and quantitative biology
Translational bioinformatics

Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbc2016

Key Dates:
Full paper submission due
August 15th, 2015, 11:59pm PDT (Time in San Francisco, CA, USA)
Full paper Author notification
September 22nd, 2015
Full paper final version due
October 15th, 2015
Full paper author registration deadline:
October 20th, 2015

Accepted paper:
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, BMC genomics, BMC Systems Biology, and Computational Biology and Chemistry following each journal's publication policy.

Best paper awards:
One best paper award and one best student paper award will be given.

Previously in APBC2015, we have accepted and published 53 full papers in the peer reviewed journals as following:
15 papers in BMC Genomics
10 papers in BMC Bioinformatics
10 papers in BMC Systems Biology
8 papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IEEE/ACM TCBB)
10 papers in Computational Biology and Chemistry