This is the second year of a special track in Bioinformatics as part of the 5th international ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2010) conference. The aim of the bioinformatics special track is to form a closer relationship between researchers using biology as inspiration for computation and those using computation to study biology. In some cases, these methods have come full circle, as when biologically inspired computational intelligence methods are in turn used to analyze biological data. The Bioinformatics track aims to attract high-quality research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology.

• Biological Sequence Analysis
• Gene Expression Analysis
• Structural and Functional Genomics
• Structural Bioinformatics
• RNA and Protein Structure
• Systems Biology
• Biological Networks
• Drug Design
• Molecular evolution

Techniques of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Robotics
• Computational geometry
• Data mining
• Machine learning
• Computational simulations
• Computer vision
• Graph theory
• Evolutionary computing

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

• Regular papers: Up to 15 pages
• Short papers: Up to 2 pages
• Work-in-progress papers: Up to 6 pages
• Demo papers: Up to 4 pages

Papers must follow the Springer LNICST format. Please visit http://www.bionetics.org/ submission.shtml for detailed submission instructions.

Important Dates:

• Regular paper submission due: July 30
• Short, work-in-progress and demo paper submission due: September 19
• Notification of acceptance for regular papers: September 12
• Notification of acceptance for short, work-in-progress and demo papers: September 30
• Camera ready due: October 10

Publication:

All accepted paper will be published by Springer. A selected number of best papers will appear in a special 2011 issue (volume 9, number 3) of the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Track Co-chairs

• Nurit Haspel, the University of Massachusetts Boston
• Amarda Shehu, George Mason University

Keynote Speaker

• Cheng Li, Harvard University

Advisory/steering committee members

• Kenneth De Jong, George Mason University
• Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
• Cheng Li, Harvard University
• Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo
• Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NLM, NIH

Program committee members

• Rainer Breitling, University of Glasgow
• Nurit Haspel, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Jing He, Old Dominion University
• Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
• Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, NCBI, NLM NIH
• Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge
• Chad Myers, University of Minnesota
• Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University
• Derek Ruths, McGill University
• Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University
• Amarda Shehu, George Mason University
• Dan Simovici, University of Massachusetts Boston
• P. S. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore
• Di Wu, Western Kentucky University