Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce that the 17th annual International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2018) will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi onSeptember 26 – 28, 2018.
The theme for InCoB2018 : “Bioinformatics for Big Data and Biomedical Sciences”
As in the past, selected papers will be published in BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, PeerJ and GigaScience (under discussions).
InCoB 2018 will also consist of the following programme:
- Full papers
- Highlights track
- Poster session and
- Invited talks
Separate call and deadlines for each of them will be available soon on the website: http://www.incob2018.
Key Dates:
| Feb 15, 2018 | Paper submission starts |
| April 25, 2018 | Full Paper Submission Deadline |
| April 20, 2018 | Breakout Session/Co‐located Workshop Proposals |
| May 20, 2018 | Student and Early Career Travel Fellowship Application Deadline |
| June 20, 2018 | Demonstration, Highlight and Poster Abstract Submission Deadline |
| July 20, 2018 | Acceptance of final full paper version, poster abstracts, demos and highlights |
| July 30, 2018 | Early bird Registration Deadline |
Submissions are invited on any field of research in Bioinformatics, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Big data applications in biology
- Computational Systems biology
- Personalized medicine informatics
- Next generation sequencing data analytics
- Biomolecular structure and dynamics
- Gene-gene, protein-protein and other regulatory networks
- Bioinformatics for diagnostics and clinical data
- Health and agricultural informatics
- Drug discovery and gene prioritization
- Parallel computing and algorithms in bioinformatics
- Data warehousing and integration for biological data
- Artificial intelligence and Deep learning (core and applied technologies)
Featuring keynote speakers:
- Burkhard Rost, Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München,Garching, Germany
- Raj Acharya, Indiana University, USA
- Dmitrij Frishman, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- B Jayaram, Indian Institute of Delhi, India
- Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA
- Yutaka Akiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Kenji Mizuguchi, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan
- Arne Elofsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Lukasz Kurgan, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Manju Bansal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Organized by:
- School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India
- Indrapratha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi
- Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet)
Please visit the conference website (http://www.incob2018.org/) or contact the Conference Organisers at: incob2018@sciwhylab.org
Best Regards,
- Shandar Ahmad (JNU, New Delhi)
- GPS Raghava (IIIT, New Delhi)
- Michael Gromiha (IITM, Chennai)