SAC BioInf 2009

A large part of the information to support biological and biomedical research is available in an increasingly wide variety of rapidly-growing decentralized databases. The challenge is to obtain information and knowledge from these databases using innovative computational approaches to support and promote biological and biomedical research. One example of such a computational challenge is in identifying biological pathways using data, information, and knowledge scattered over heterogeneous databases. Computational tools using system-theoretic approaches are needed to model metabolic pathways, signal-transduction pathways, genetic regulatory circuits and biological systems.

By comparing the genomes and pathways of several species at a high level, we hope to understand how stable biological systems have evolved. Over the last few years, microarray data have provided many insights into the transcriptome and into cellular functions. These data are now increasingly complemented by mass spectrometry data of the proteome, whose analysis poses new computational challenges.

Track Topics
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 * Algebraic Biology
 * Bioinformatics for diseases
 * Computational genomics and systems biology
 * Data visualization and visual analytics
 * Databases & Data Integration
 * DNA assembly, clustering and mapping
 * Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases
 * Gene Expression/regulation & Microarrays
 * Genomes and protein analysis
 * High-performance bio-computing
 * Integrative approaches for drug design
 * Integrative data and text mining approaches
 * Life sciences databases and ontologies
 * Machine learning, data integration and data mining in the life sciences
 * Molecular sequence analysis, modeling and simulation
 * Parallel architectures and algorithms for biological applications
 * Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology
 * Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
 * Protein & RNA Structure and Function
 * Protein-protein Interactions, prediction, and Molecular Networks
 * Query processing and optimization for biological data
 * Semantic web for the life sciences
 * Sequence Analysis & Alignment, Assembly
 * SNPs and Haplotyping
 * Structural and functional bioinformatics
 * System Biology and Modeling
 * Virtual cell modeling

Conference Paper Publication
All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The final version of the paper should not be more than 5 pages long. An additional 3 pages are allowed with a charge of 80USD per extra page. Final Camera-ready submissions must follow the template available at:

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm

Journal Paper Publication
Expanded version of 4-5 top ranking papers will be accepted for publication in the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (ijdmb@inderscience.com). Authors will be contacted after the presentation of these papers at the SAC Conference in Hawaii.

Poster Publication of Selected Papers

A set of selected papers will be accepted as poster papers by invitation only and will be published as short papers in the symposium proceedings.

Track Chairs

 * Has program chair::Mathew J. Palakal, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, Email: mpalakal@iupui.edu
 * Has program chair::Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Email: kanagasa@i2r.a-star.edu.sg