SCOPE
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The success of Bioinformatics in recent years has been prompted by research in Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine in several initiatives. These initiatives gave rise to an exponential increase in the volume and diversification of data, including nucleotide and protein sequences and annotations, high-throughput experimental data, biomedical literature, among many others.
Systems Biology is a related research area that has been replacing the reductionist view that dominated Biology research in the last decades, requiring the coordinated efforts of biological researchers with those related to data analysis, mathematical modeling, computer simulation and optimization.

The accumulation and exploitation of large-scale data bases prompts for new computational technology and for research into these issues. In this context, many widely successful computational models and tools used by biologists in these initiatives, such as clustering and classification methods for gene expression data, are based on Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence (CS/AI) techniques. In fact, these methods have been helping in tasks related to knowledge discovery, modeling and optimization tasks, aiming at the development of computational models so that the response of biological complex systems to any perturbation can be predicted.

The 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB) aims to promote the interaction among the scientific community to discuss applications of CS/AI with an interdisciplinary character, exploring the interactions between sub-areas of CS/AI, Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics and Systems Biology.

Brand new ideas in these fields are sought, as well as substantial and relevant revisions and actualizations of previously presented work, project summaries and PhD thesis presented or not.


info@pacbb.net




TOPICS
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PACBB welcomes contributions reporting substantial, original and previously unpublished work in all areas of Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics and Systems Biology. The papers can be presented from a formal, methodological, technical or applied point of view.


Biological areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Next generation sequencing
- Comparison and alignment methods
- Motif, gene and signal recognition
- Molecular evolution
- DNA twisting and folding
- High-throughput data analysis (transcriptomics, proteomics, etc)
- Phylogenetics and phylogenomics
- Determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and proteins
- Gene expression data analysis
- Identification of metabolic pathways
- Functional genomics
- Biomarker identification
- Molecular docking and drug design
- Computational problems in genetics such as linkage and QTL analysis, linkage disequilibrium analysis in populations, haplotype determination, SNPs
- Molecular and cellular interactions
- Emergence of properties in complex biological systems
- Visualization of biological systems and networks
- Data and software integration
- Biomedical ontologies
- In silico optimization of biological systems
- Metabolic engineering applications
- Cell simulation and modeling
- Metabolic, regulatory and signaling models/ networks: properties, dynamics, inference/ reconstruction
- Metabolomics/ metabolic fingerprints
- Health-care applications
- Bio imaging

Computacional areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining techniques
- Text Mining and Language Processing
- Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Rough, Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques
- Hidden Markov Models
- Bayesian Approaches
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Support Vector Machines
- Evolutionary Computing
- Case-Based Reasoning systems
- Non-linear dynamical analysis methods and Intelligent signal processing
- Feature selection



SPECIAL ISSUES
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∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (ISSN 1551-0018, JCR: 1.285(Q4)

∎ Special issue in the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (ISSN: 1613-4516, SJR: 0,82 (Q2))

∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database)



AWARDS
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Electronics MDPI will award the best paper with 300 CHF




COMMITTEE
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Program Committee

Mohd Saberi Mohamad - Universiti Teknologi Malysia (Malysia)
Miguel Rocha - University of Minho (Portugal)


Organizing Committee

Florentino Fernández - University of Vigo (Spain)
Roberto Casado-Vara - University of Salamanca (Spain)


Advisory Committee

Gabriella Panuccio - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)




INVITED SPEAKERS
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Vicente Botti, Director of VRAIN (Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence). Technical University of Valencia (Spain)

Yves Demazeau, Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France)

Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany)





DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.



FORMAT
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All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 10 pages (4 pages en Doctoral Consortium), including figures and references:
Microsoft word format.
Latex Format.



SUBMISSION
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All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PACBB 2021 conference management system.



PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in PACBB Proceedings, published by Springer.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by AISC Springer Verlag.

** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **




IMPORTANT DATES
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Main Track - Paper submission deadline: --14th May, 2021-- 28th May, 2021
Doctoral Consortium - Paper submission deadline: --24th May, 2021-- 11th June, 2021
Notification of acceptance: --7th June, 2021-- 18th June, 2021
Camera-Ready papers due: --28th June, 2021-- 2nd July, 2021
Conference Celebration: 6th-8th October, 2021




ORGANIZERS
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Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (Malysia)

University of Minho (Portugal)

University of Vigo (Spain)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

University of Salamanca (Spain)



SPONSORS
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- IBM
- INDRA



SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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- AEPIA
- APPIA