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Session theme and goals
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Computational Methods in Molecular Biology and Medicine provide important tools for solving many of the key problems in Bioinformatics including determining the function of a newly discovered genetic sequence; determining the evolutionary relationships among genes, proteins, and entire species, predicting the structure and function of proteins, classification of DNA and protein sequences, motif identification and many more. Due to the volume of biological data, computationally efficient techniques are sought to provide answers, exact or approximate, to the above problems. Moreover, given the diverse set of biological data, their exponential growth of biological data sets and the increasing need to share data, it is imperative for the bioinformatics community to envisage new means for data representations, storage and exchange. In order to address the need XML (Extensible Markup
Language) appears as the prominent choice, hence providing the algorithmic community with challenging problems concerning the efficient handling of
biological data expressed in XML.
The purpose of the proposed workshop, in the tradition of related workshops in the three previous ICCMSEs is to bring together scientists from different fields of expertise in order to discuss biological problems and propose new ideas and techniques in today's applications, in the areas of molecular biology, medicine and generally in the application of computational and indexing techniques.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: sequence storage and processing, protein databases, modelling and simulation of biological processes, mining for biological data, protein classification and clustering, tools and applications, XML for Bioinformatics applications.
Submission Guidelines
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Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract of 3-4 A4 pages in electronic version directly to the organizing committee (mailto:
[email protected] and [email protected]), on or before June 20, 2006, following the instructions published in:
http://www.iccmse.org/abstract.htm
Authors will be notified about acceptance by July 1, 2006. Camera ready copy of accepted abstracts will be due by July 15, 2006. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper should register and present the paper in the session.