Call For Paper - BIOTECHNO 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Date and Venue : June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania

Important deadlines:
Submission deadline February 5, 2008
Notification March 15, 2008
Registration and camera ready April 15, 2008

International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies
June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania Bio-oriented technologies became very popular in various research topics and industrial market segments. Current human mechanisms seem to offer significant ways for improving theories, algorithms, technologies, products and systems. A myriad of theoretical models, dedicated software solutions, and mathematical algorithms and calculi helps improving gathering and representing knowledge on human being. Bioengineering and biomedical computation and representation techniques rely on special biocomputing techniques inspired from this process. Bioinformatics itself constitutes a vast area of research and specialization, as many classical domains such as databases, modeling, and regular expressions are used to represent, store, retrieve and process a huge volume of knowledge. Large scale biosystems opened the need for specific devices, such as biomechanical, biorobotics, nanosensors, human-oriented control systems, etc. As progress is extremely fast, there is a continuous need to keep pace with the developments and achievements, as well as with challenging issues. BIOTECHNO brings together achievements and challenges for practical software and hardware support, highlighting the advances in biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies.

The BIOTECHNO 2008 initiates a series of events targeting traditional and advanced paradigms for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies and systems. The conference covers also fundamentals on bio-ontologies and theoretical support, and highlights new challenging industrial applications and research topics.

Topics
Bio-ontologies

Software environments for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical applications
Medical informatics
Epidemic models
Biological data mining
Biomedical knowledge discovery
Pattern classification and recognition
Mathematical biology
Graph theory and bioinformatics
Stochastic modeling
Biological databases and information retrieval
Processing mutation information
Archiving of mutation specific information
Biocomputing
Computational biology
Bioengineering
Biomedical image computing and informatics
Biomedical automation and control
Image-based diagnosis and therapy
Modeling and simulation of systems biology
Applications of large-scale bio-systems
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics modeling
Bioinformatics databases
Genomics
Biostatistics
Structural and functional genomics
Molecular sequence and structure databases
Molecular interactions and structure predictions
RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
Gene regulation and expression databases
Gene identification and pattern discovery
Gene expression analysis
Modeling and simulation of biomarkers
Biomechanical devices
Biomaterials
Biomedical Instrumentation
Biomedical metrology and certification
Biomedical sensors
Biomedical monitoring devices
Biological data integration
Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
Biological data visualization
Biometric screening techniques
Biorobotics
Biomedical devices with embedded computers
Biocomputing and Biochips
Synthetic Biological Systems
Chemoinformatics
combinatorial chemistry
graph theory in chemistry
drug design
concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery
prediction of drug toxicity
property prediction
molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations
modeling and measurements of solid-liquid and vapor-liquid equilibria
metabolomics and machine learning
blood-brain barrier penetration
comparison of the similarity/diversity of chemo-data libraries
chemoinformatics applications
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The BIOTECHNO 2008 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page (http://www.iaria.org/instructions.html#format). Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the IEEE Authors Tools (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html).

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers.

Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials.

Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

Workshop proposals
Workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference are welcome.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPBIOTECHNO08.html