HIBIT 2011

The 6th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, (HIBIT 2011) will be held and organized in Izmir, Turkey. The HIBIT series has been initiated by the Informatics Institute at METU in 2005. HIBIT aims to bring together academicians, researchers and practitioners from the general area of health or medical informatics and bioinformatics or computational biology. Biomathematics, statistics and other related and supporting fields are also welcome and have contributed papers and posters in the past. Another aim of HIBIT is to create synergy between academicians performing basic research and those that are users of computational methods. In this HIBIT aims to create an interface with the technology sector such that research can turn into marketable developments. HIBIT provides a forum for discussion, exploration and development of both theoretical and practical aspects of health informatics and bioinformatics and a chance to network with others working and researching in this or related areas. Finally, we aim to provide a platform for researchers which, like us, wonder why conferences in Europe require up to 600€ registration fee.

We welcome submissions from the listed areas but will also consider papers with related topics from close areas. Health Informatics Electronic Health Records and Standards Clinical Informatics and Hospital Information Systems Telemedicine and Mobile Applications Decision Support Systems and Computer Aided Diagnosis Health Informatics Education Security, Ethics and Privacy Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in HI Medical Signal/Image Analysis and Visualization Medical Imaging and Instrumentation Virtual Reality and Simulation Medical Transaction Provision Systems Bioinformatics Biomolecular Sequence Analysis Comparative Genomics Biomedical Genome Research Microarray Informatics Protein Expression and Modifications Protein Interactions Protein Structure Prediction Biomedical Proteome Research Genetic Networks Systems Biology Text Mining and Information Extraction Evolution and Phylogeny Structural Bioinformatics Biologically Inspired Control Systems Computational Neuroscience

Call for papers..

Opens 15. November 2010 Closes 31. January 2011 Notification of acceptance latest 28th of February 2011.

Call for posters..

Opens 15. December 2010 Closes 28. February 2011 Notification of acceptance latest 31th of April 2011.

Call for workshops..

Opens 1. December 2010 Closes 28. February 2011 Notification of acceptance latest 31th of April 2011.

Call for roundtables..

Opens 1. December 2010 Closes 28. February 2011 Notification of acceptance latest 31th of April 2011.

Program Committee Co-Chairs Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bilge KARAÇALI	IZTECH Asst.Prof.Dr. Hasan OTU	BILKENT

Program Committee Prof.Dr. Peter F.STADLER	Uni Leipzig Prof.Dr. Volkan ATALAY	METU Prof.Dr. Cenk SAHINALP	SFU Prof.Dr. Gerhard Wilhelm WEBER	METU Prof.Dr. Ralf HOFENSTAEDT	Uni Bielefeld Prof.Dr. Erich Bornberg BAUER	WWU Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ugur SEZERMAN	SABANCI Assoc.Prof.Dr. Özlem KESKIN	KOÇ Assoc.Prof.Dr. Osman ABUL	TOBB Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hasan OGUL	BASKENT Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ugur DOGRUSÖZ	BILKENT Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nicolas Loménie	UPD Assoc.Prof.Dr. Albert GÜVENIS	BOGAZIÇI Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tamer KAHVECI	UFL Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ünal UFUKTEPE	IEU Assoc.Prof.Dr. Yasar SAHIN	IEU Assoc.Prof.Dr. Albert GÜVENIS	BOGAZICI Asst.Prof.Dr. Ufuk ÇELIKKAN	IEU Asst.Prof.Dr. Mehmet APAYDIN	SEHIR Asst.Prof.Dr. Ivo SBALZARINI	ETHZ Asst.Prof.Dr. Ahmet SAÇAN	DREXEL Asst.Prof.Dr. Çigdem Gündüz DEMIR	BILKENT Asst.Prof.Dr. May KORACHI	YEDITEPE Asst.Prof.Dr. Aaron MACKEY	UVa Asst.Prof.Dr. Yesim AYDIN SON	METU Asst.Prof.Dr. Çagdas SON	METU Asst.Prof.Dr. Osman ABUL	TOBB UNI Dr.	Ömer SINAN SARAÇ	TUD Dr.	Martyn SYMONS	UQ Dr.	Vidal Fey	VTT Dr.	Ergin SOYSAL	ANKARA Dr.	Malik YOUSEF	Gal-Soc Dr.	Waleed KHALIEFE	SAKHNIN Dr.	Murat ÇOKOL	SABANCI Dr.	Abdullah ARSLAN	TAMU Tunca DOGAN	IZTECH

Honorary Chair Prof.Dr. Neşe YALABIK	METU

Conference Chair Asst.Prof.Dr. Jens ALLMER	IZTECH

Organization Committee Co-Chairs Prof.Dr. Oğuz DİCLE	DEU Assoc.Prof.Dr. Cemal ÜN	EGEU Asst.Prof.Dr. Coşkun ATAY	IEU

Organizing Committee Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bilge KARAÇALI	IZTECH Asst.Prof.Dr. Tolga CAN	METU Asst.Prof.Dr. Birsen ÇAKIR	EGEU Bekir ERDOĞAN	IZTECH Belgin AYTUN	IZTECH Canan HAS	IZTECH Gökhan KARAKÜLAH	DEU Ozan AKÇAY	DEU Şule YILMAZ	IZTECH Visam GÜLTEKİN	IZTECH