ACM-SAC 2012 Conference Track on Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology (BIO)

 

The conference track aims at proposing a multi-sides perspective to computational biology, bioinformatics and theoretical systems biology. All these three areas involve the development and application of analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological sciences. Currently, the field of application of mathematical and computer science investigation methods to the life sciences is not limited to theoretical modeling in biochemistry, molecular biology and epidemiological biomathematics. Now bioinformatics and computational biology extend also to larger scale systems like ecological systems and include more applicative fields such as pharmacology, medicine, clinical trials design, healthcare and environment. Three ad-hoc topics are added to the more traditional topics of Bio-Track of ACM. These topics are: (i) stochastic ecosystem models, (ii) parallel interacting processes in ecology and (iii) hierarchical modeling at several organizational levels

 

Conference topics include:

 

Algebraic Biology

Bio-ontologies

Bioinformatics for diseases

Biological data quality and data cleaning

Biological data sharing and update propagation

Biological metadata management

Comparative genomics

Computational genomics

Computational systems biology

 

Organized by: ACM