11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB'17)

PACBB welcomes contributions reporting substantial, original and previously unpublished work in all areas of Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics and Systems Biology.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 ar 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