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CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Session on Soft Computing tools for Bioinformatics
at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009) sponsored by SIG on Bioinformatics of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Location: Westin PeachTree Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 14-19 2009 Conference Web Site: http://cnd.memphis.edu/ijcnn2009/ Special Session Web Site: http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/conferences/IJCNN2009-SS.html Description and Scope: The body of information surrounding molecular and genomic experiments and clinical investigations is rapidly growing as the magnitude and rate of applications involving large-scale high-throughput technologies are ever-increasing. Bioinformatic data mining efforts now range from more recent methods including miRNA target identification and protein structure prediction to classical methods such as ANN and RBFN classification of DNA microarray gene expression data. Data fusion and integration are also gaining considerable attention for merging signals, features, images, and text data from multiple sensors together in order to understand influences of data components on early detection and diagnosis of disease. Altogether, bioinformatics has become a very promising multidisciplinary research area in the life sciences because results provide new insights for interpretation and establish new leads for deeper understanding. Each year there are numerous Soft Computing and Machine Learning algorithms introduced providing new examples of application in related fields (clustering, feature selection, text mining, signal and image processing, data visualization, etc.). This session will take stock in new soft computing methods for bioinformatic data mining in general, and Neural Network methods in particular. Topics: We welcome papers which present novel algorithms or refined classical methods for the analysis of high dimensional bioinformatic data sets. The target problems include but are not limited to: * Data integration and fusion * Ensemble techniques * Biological sequence identification * DNA/CGH/SNP/miRNA arrays * Gene regulatory and ontology networks * Protein-protein, protein-small molecule interactions * Protein structure prediction * Cellular metabolism and signaling * Pharmacogenomics and pharmacodynamics * Metabolic pathways * Signal processing * Unsupervised and supervised classification * Imaging/data visualization * Text mining methods * Biomarker selection Organizers: Alexandru Floares (1), Francesco Masulli (2,3), (1) Department of Artificial Intelligence Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca 400015 Str. Republicii, Nr. 34-36, Cluj-Napoca Romania E-mail: alexandru.floares iocn.ro (2) DISI Dept. Computer and Information Sciences University of Genova Via Dodecaneso 35 16146 Genoa, Italy E-mail: masulli disi.unige.it (3) Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University, 1900 N 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. Important dates: As soon as possibile: Inform by email the Special Session organizers of your willness to submit a paper Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2008 (&) Author notification of acceptance or rejection: Jennuary 30, 2009 Deadline for final paper re-submission: March 10, 2009 (&&) (&) Paper submission (deadline Dec 15, 2008): At http://cnd.memphis.edu/ijcnn2009/submission.html you'll find the Instruction for Authors and the link to the IJCNN 2009 submission site. After uploaded your paper on the IJCNN 2009 submission site, send by email to the special session organizers a copy of your paper. In the Subject of the email please specify: "Paper submitted to SS on Bioinformatics IJCNN09". (&&) Final Paper re-submission (deadline March 10, 2009): After re-uploaded your paper on the IJCNN 2009 submission site, send by email to the special session organizers a copy of your revised paper and a letter indicating in detail all changes made. In the Subject of the email please specify: "Paper submitted to SS on Bioinformatics IJCNN09 (revised)". |
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