Call for Participation: IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2018), Missouri, USA (May 30-Jun 2)

May 30-June 2, 2018, Renaissance Hotel, Saint Louis, MO

This conference will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering, and related fields. Computational Intelligence approaches include artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid algorithms, and other emerging techniques. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Gene expression array analysis
• Structure prediction and folding
• Molecular sequence alignment and analysis
• Metabolic pathway analysis
• RNA and protein folding and structure prediction
• Analysis and visualization of large biological data sets
• Motif detection
• Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
• Systems and synthetic biology
• Modeling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems
• Robustness and evolvability of biological networks
• Emergent properties in complex biological systems
• Ecoinformatics and applications to ecological data analysis
• Medical imaging and pattern recognition
• Medical image analysis
• Biomedical data modeling and mining
• Treatment optimization
• Biomedical model parameterization
• Brain computer interface

General Chair:
Donald Wunsch (USA)

Program Chair:
Daniel Ashlock (Canada)

Technical Co-Chairs:
Sheridan Houghten (Canada)
Wendy Ashlock (Canada)

Finance Chair:
Steven Corns (USA)

Tutorial Chair:
Joseph Brown (Russia)

Proceedings Chair:
Richard Allmendinger (UK)

Publicity Chair:
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul (Thailand)
Sanaz Mostaghim (Germany)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Suzanna Long (USA)

Web Chair:
David Heise (USA)

Further information: http://www.cibcb.org/CIBCB2018/index.html