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Preliminary CFP: 2012 Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2012)
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August 15-17, 2012, Campo Grande - MS, Brazil
Website: http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br
E-mail: 7thbsb@gmail.com (Program Committee Chairs)



Program Committee Chairs:
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE, Brazil)
Maricel G. Kann (UMBC, USA)

Organizing Committee Chair:
Nalvo Franco de Almeida Jr. (UFMS, Brazil)

The 2012 Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2012) is an international conference which covers all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology.

Topics include (but are not limited to):


- Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching;
- Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining;
- Biomedical Text Mining;
- Structural, Comparative, and Functional Genomics;
- Personal Genomics;
- Protein Structure, Modeling, and Simulation;
- Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression Analysis;
- Gene and Protein Interaction and Networks;
- Molecular Docking;
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics;
- Computational Systems Biology;
- Computational Proteomics;
- Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences;
- Algorithms for Problems in Computational Biology;
- Applications in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology and associated subjects.


Proceedings:
Like previous BSB editions, we expect the proceedings with the full papers to be published in the series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics by Springer Verlag:

(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-73658-0)

For BSB 2012, the short papers will be included in a CD-ROM with ISBN (Digital Proceedings) that will be available during the Event. You can learn more about the submission process following this link:

http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br/callpapers/view/id/1


Important Dates:
Submission opens (full and short papers): January 19, 2012
Submission closes (full papers): March 19, 2012
Notification of Acceptance (full papers): April 30, 2012
Camera Ready Full Paper: May 14, 2012
Registration of Authors (full papers): May 25, 2012
Submission closes (short papers): June 25, 2012
Notification of Acceptance (short papers): July 9, 2012
Event: August 15-17 2012