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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
AlCoB 2016
Trujillo, Spain
June 21-23, 2016
Organized by:
Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO)
University of Extremadura
Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies (CETA-Ciemat)
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
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AIMS:
AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.
Previous events were held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015).
The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
VENUE:
AlCoB 2016 will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called “conquistadores” who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue will be the Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies.
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology
STRUCTURE:
AlCoB 2016 will consist of:
invited lectures
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be completed):
Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
Timothy L. Bailey (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Vladimir Bajic (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
Geoff Barton (University of Dundee, UK)
Inanc Birol (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Alan P. Boyle (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Vladimir Brusic (NazarbayevUniversity, Astana, Kazakhstan)
Liming Cai (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, Italy)
Ken Chen (University of Texas MD AndersonCancerCenter, Houston, USA)
Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Laurent Gautier (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA)
Manolo Gouy (ClaudeBernardUniversity Lyon 1, France)
Michael Gribskov (PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, USA)
Iman Hajirasouliha (Stanford University, USA)
John Hancock (Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK)
Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, USA)
Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, Japan)
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Bill Majoros (DukeUniversity, Durham, USA)
Lennart Martens (Ghent University, Belgium)
Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, Tarragona, Spain, chair)
Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Kenta Nakai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Mihaela Pertea (JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, USA)
Ben Raphael (BrownUniversity, Providence, USA)
Denis Shields (UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland)
Fredj Tekaia (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)
Fuli Yu (BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, USA)
Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Kaizhong Zhang (University of WesternOntario, London, Canada)
Weixiong Zhang (WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA)
Zhongming Zhao (VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, USA)
Yaoqi Zhou (GriffithUniversity, Brisbane, Australia)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
LOCAL COMMITTEE:
Leslye Alarcón (Cáceres)
María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair)
José M. Granado-Criado (Cáceres)
Sergio Santander-Jiménez (Cáceres)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The period for registration is open from October 30, 2015 to June 21, 2016. The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: January 26, 2016 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 1, 2016
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 15, 2016
Early registration: March 15, 2016
Late registration: June 7, 2016
Submission to the journal special issue: September 23, 2016
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
AlCoB 2016
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CETA-CIEMAT)
Universidad de Extremadura
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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