The Fifteenth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2017) will be held in Shenzhen, China. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, academics, and industrial practitioners.

Call for Papers
APBC2017 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
*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

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 the journals BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, IEEE/ACM TCBB, CBC following the journals' publication policy.

Organization
*General Co-Chairs
Keith C.C. Chan, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Michael Ng, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
*PC Co-Chairs
Phoebe Chen, Ph.D. (La Trobe University, Australia)
Shuai Cheng Li, Ph.D. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Vincent Ng, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Lusheng Wang, Ph.D. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Submission site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apbc2017

Important Dates
*Full Paper submission: July 30 ,2016
*Author notification: August 30 , 2016
*Final version due on: October 1 , 2016
*Full paper author registration deadline: October 20 ,2016
*Conference start and end dates: January 16 - 18 , 2017

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

Previously in APBC2016, 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