Call for Papers

Cochairs:

Robert M. (Bob) Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, and
Program in Bioinformatics & Proteomics/Genomics
University of Toledo
Email: Robert.Blumenthal@utoledo.edu
Tel: (419) 3835422

Anthony D. (Tony) Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Toledo
Email: Anthony.Johnson@utoledo.edu
Tel: (419) 5308176

We are soliciting original research papers (including significant worksinprogress) in any area of computational biology and bioinformatics, including the following:

  • Bioinformatic analysis in
    • agriculture
    • biomedicine (human or veterinary)
    • bioremediation
    • drug discovery
    • industrial fermentations
    • plant biology
  • Biologically relevant applications of
    • bioontologies and biomedical text mining
    • combinatorics
    • constraint satisfaction
    • data integration
    • data mining, modeling or visualization
    • databases
    • linguistic methods
    • machine learning
    • modeling and simulation
    • parallel computation
    • pattern recognition
    • robotics
    • string and graph algorithms
    • text analysis
  • New developments in
    • evolution and phylogeny
    • genomics and metagenomics
    • LIMS and other tools to support experimental biology
    • metabolomics
    • pathways, networks and systems, including prediction of regulation
    • proteomics
    • sequencing and sequence analysis
    • structural bioinformatics
    • transcriptomics

We strongly encourage submission of abstracts, from the full spectrum of computational biology, that
• report novel results in the above or related areas
• illustrate the application of computational techniques to these subject areas.

Industry Panel
June 3, 2008

Moderator: Bill Tacon, BioOhio

Industry Panel
Kevin P. Cross, Leadscope, Inc.

Daniel Bornman, Battelle Memorial Institute

Patricia E. Spitzner, Manager, Ohio Health Research and Innovation
Institute

Jeff Spitzner, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, Rescentris