The fourth annual Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University on June 15-17, 2009.

The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of methods, research findings, and experiences.

An important goal for the conference is to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology that benefit Ohio.

Keynote Speakers

Igor Jurisica, Canada Research Chair in Integrative Computational Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Integrative network analysis of prognostic markers in lung cancer. (in collaboration with M. S. Tsao, F. Shepherd, D. Strumpf, C.Q. Zhang)

Tao Jiang, Presidential Chair Professor, University of California - Riverside
Title: Searching and Predicting Active Chemical Compounds Using Maximum Common Substructure

Vincent Danos, Chair in Computational Systems Biology, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Title: Esse Est Percipi (To be is to be Perceived) Endogenous Reduction Techniques for Rule-Based Models of Signaling Pathways

Papers for oral presentations
Full Papers (6 pages) are due for oral presentations on January 27, 2009 for review by the OCCBIO '09 committee. Authors will be notified of their inclusion in the program on February 27, 2009.

Poster Presentation Abstracts are due by May 11, 2009 for review by the OCCBIO '09 committee. All appropriate posters submitted will be accommodated.

Papers for publication due in camera-ready PDF format by March 27, 2009.

Early registration begins March 14, 2009.