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IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE
BIBE 2007).
IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE
BIBE 2007), Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the Biological and
Artificial Intelligence Society in cooperation with Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana
University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana; Georgia Institute of
Technology and Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; University of
Texas, Austin, Texas; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical
School and Harvard University, will be held at Cambridge - Boston,
Massachusetts, USA, October 14-17, 2007. The IEEE BIBE 2007 is a large
International Conference.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed in EI, and
further considered for journal special issues dedicated to IEEE BIBE'07
such as IJBB, Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Transactions on
Computational Systems Biology and Journal of Supercompuring,
InderScience's IJBRA, and IJDMB, RIP's JCIB and Taylor Francis' IJGS. In
addition, World Scientific Publisher's Journal of Bioinformatics and
Computation Biology (JBCB) will warmly invite extended-version submission
by selected authors based on recommendation by the BIBE07 PC chairs.
IEEE BIBE Best Paper Awards will be conferred to the authors of (1) the
best research papers (2) the best application papers and (3) the best
student papers. Foundational and original results will be considered for
the best research paper awards; application-oriented submissions will be
considered for the best application paper awards and papers first authored
by students (graduate or undergraduate full-time students) will be
considered for the best student paper awards.
IEEE BIBE 2007 will offer a limited number of travel fellowships. Those
awards are based on the quality of papers only (no separate application).
Online Submission Deadline: July 6, 2007
Early Registration: July 31, 2007: $280/$330 (Student IEEE/Non-IEEE
member), $495/$595 (IEEE/Non-IEEE Member)
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jay Steven Loeffler
Herman and Joan Suit Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard
University. Radiation Oncology Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School. Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at
the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.
Editorial Board of Nature, Oncology.
Dr. Mary Qu Yang
National Human Genome Research Institute - National Institutes of
Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USA and Oak
Ridge Institute for Science and Education - Oak Ridge National Lab. U.S.
Department of Energy, USA.
Dr. Yi Pan
Chair and Professor, Georgia State University, Editor-in-Chief,
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications and
Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics, USA
Dr. A. Keith Dunker
T. K. Li Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine. Director and
Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics, School of Informatics. Director
of Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University
Purdue University, USA.
Dr. Jun S. Liu
Director of Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
Laboratory, Professor of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Broad
Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University,
USA.
Tutorial Lecture: Biological Sequence Analysis
Dr. Mark Borodovsky
Regents' Professor and Director, Center for the Bioinformatics and
Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering are complementary disciplines that hold
great promise for the advancement of research and development in complex
medical and biological systems, agriculture, environment, public health,
drug design, and so on. Research and development in these two areas are
impacting the science and technology of fields such as medicine, food
production, forensics, etc. by advancing fundamental concepts in molecular
biology and in medicine, by helping us understand living organisms at
multiple levels, by developing innovative implants and prosthetics, by new
medical image technologies, and by improving tools and techniques for the
detection, prevention and treatment of diseases. The BIBE Symposium
provides a common platform for the cross fertilization of ideas, and to
help shape knowledge and scientific achievements by bridging these two
very important and complementary disciplines into an interactive and
attractive forum. Keeping this objective in mind, BIBE solicits original
contributions in the following non exclusive lists of areas.
IEEE BIBE 2007 welcomes submissions in all areas of bioinformatics,
bioengineering, computational biology, medical physics, radiation
oncology, image processing, scientific computing, statistical analysis,
computational intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery.
Submissions of theoretical and application papers relating to biological
science, medical science, pharmaceutical science, agricultural science,
human health, medical images, cancer diagnosis and therapy, proteomics,
protein structure and function, sequence analysis, gene expressions and
regulations, system biology, genetics and genomics are all welcomed.
- Biomedical Informatics and Computation: Bio-molecular and
Phylogenetic Databases, Query Languages, Interoperability, Bio-Ontology
and Data Mining, System Biology, Identification and Classification of
Genes, Sequence Search and Alignment, Protein Structure Prediction and
Molecular Simulation, Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny, Functional
Genomics, Proteomics, Drug Discovery Gene Expression Analysis,
Bio-languages, Bioinformatics Engineering, Data Visualization, Signaling
and Computation Biomedical Data Engineering, Medical Image Processing
(Segmentation, Registration, Fusion),Telemedicine, Modeling and
Simulation, and Biomedical Imaging.
- Bio-Engineering: Biological Systems and Models, Engineering Models
in Biomedicine, Image Guided Radiation Therapy, 4-D Images, Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy, Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy, Dose
Calculation and Optimization, Monte Carlo Simulation, Biological Modeling,
New Technologies in MRI, PET, CAT, Mammography and Cancer Detection.
Biomedical Sensors, Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Robotics,
Bionic Human, Cell Engineering, Molecular and Cellular Systems, Body's and
Cell's Bio-signatures, Tissue Engineering, and Biomaterials.
IEEE BIBE'07 will host sessions focusing on Interdisciplinary and
Multidisciplinary research in order to foster collaboration between the
bioinformatics and bioengineering domains.
Conference Organizers
Jack Y. Yang, Program Committee Chair and Coordinator
Harvard University
Yanqing Zhang, Program Committee Co-Chair and Bioinformatics Chair
Georgia State University
George T. Y. Chen, Program Committee Co-Chair and Bioengineering Chair
Harvard University and Masschusetts General Hospital
Jun Ni, Committee Co-Chair and Inter/Multidisciplinary Chair
University of Iowa
Yuehui Chen, Program Committee Vice-Chair and Publication Chair
University of Jinan and Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Computational
Intelligence in Bioinformatics
Youping Deng, Program Committee Vice-Chair and Registration/Workshop Chair
University of Southern Mississippi
Michael Folkert, Program Committee Vice-Chair and Organizing/Local
Arrangement Chair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
Liqiang Zhang, International Chair
Indiana University
Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, General Chair
Wright State University