Call for Papers

BioCom 2008 will be held in conjunction with The IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan, March 25 - 28, 2008 http://www.aina-conference.org/2008

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate exchange of ideas and collaborations between researchers from computer science, biology, medicine, mathematics, statistics, physics, and such related sciences, to discuss various aspects of biocomputing and their applications.

We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of biological and medical computing, and life science applications with an interdisciplinary character.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Biotechnology Modeling
• Networking for Healthcare
• Tele-Medicine
• Nanosensors for Bio-Medical Applications
• Security and Reliability in Medical Information Systems
• Service Oriented Computing and Networking for Medical Applications
• Molecular Dynamics
• Comparative Genomics
• Protein Structure Prediction
• Data Integration for Microarray Analysis
• Optimization in Metabolic Pathway
• Biological Systems as Reactive Systems
• Algorithms for Sequence Alignment
• Genome Annotation Using Software Agents
• Medical Imaging
• Biomedical Visualization
• Information Visualization in Life Sciences
• Stochastic Dynamics of Gene Networks
• Markov Models with Application in Biology
• High Performance Bio-Computing
• Data-Mining and Machine Learning Techniques
• E-Learning in Life Sciences
• Biomedical Databases

  For further information, please contact the workshop co-chairs.

  Important Dates

  Submission deadline:	November 1, 2007
  Authors Notification:	November 15, 2007
  Author Registration:	December 1, 2007
  Final Manuscript:	January 10, 2008

  Authors whose papers have been accepted and presented at BioCom 2008, are invited to submit their extended and revised papers to the Journal Special Issues of AINA2008.