CIBB is a multidisciplinary forum for researchers interested in the
broad application of computational intelligence to open problems in
bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, and
medical informatics. CIBB is looking for contributions on current
trends and future opportunities at the interface between computer and
life sciences, as well as applications of computational intelligence
to system and synthetic biology. Computational, theoretical and experimental
biologists are encouraged to participate and present their experiences
facing novel challenges to foster multidisciplinary collaboration.

Authors are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages) describing
their original contributions. Submitted contributions will undergo
peer review, and all accepted contributions will be orally presented
in plenary and special sessions.

-** The DEADLINE for short paper submission is May 15, 2024 **-

Authors of all the accepted short papers presented at
the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their
manuscripts to the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) or to a supplement in a journal such as
BMC Bioinformatics or Journal of Translational Medicine (details to be
defined).

In addition to the main track, the conference will provide a
few special sessions focused on specific topics of interest for the
CIBB audience. To this aim research groups are invited to propose a
special session. A typical session includes 3 to 5 accepted papers
and may feature an invited speaker, who should be a distinguished
scientist with significant contributions to CIBB-relevant fields.

-** The DEADLINE for special session proposal is March 20, 2024 **-

Further information can be found on the conference website.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Special session proposal: March 20, 2024
Paper submission: May 15, 2024
Notification: June 20, 2024
Camera ready: July 5, 2024
Deadline for early-bird registration: July 15, 2024
Registrations close: August 15, 2024
Conference: September 4-6, 2024

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LIST OF TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications of machine learning to bioinformatics or health datasets
- Data mining methods in biomedical contexts
- Artificial intelligence in biomedicine
- Next-generation sequencing bioalgorithms
- Multi-omics data analysis
- Statistical analysis of high dimensional omics data
- Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
- Methods for visualisation of high-dimensional biomedical data
- Software tools for bioinformatics
- Methods for comparative genomics
- Computational tools for proteomics
- Simulation of biological systems and clinical populations
- Methods for the functional classification of genes
- Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
- Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation, and visualisation of
structures discovered in bio-molecular data
- Health informatics and medical informatics
- Biomedical and microscopy imaging
- Methods for the integration of clinical, genetic, or environmental data
- Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion
- Algorithms for pharmacogenomics
- Biomedical text mining and natural language processing
- Bayesian methods for medical and biological data
- Health big data analytics
- Data-driven approaches for patient stratification, and prognosis or
onset prediction
- Process mining in healthcare
- Information retrieval, and temporal and spatial representation and
reasoning in biomedicine
- Simulation models, software, and tools (clinical decision support
systems, patient engagement support, visual analytics, solutions for
assisted living, and telemedicine)
- Biomedical signal processing
- Explainable AI and clinical model interpretation
- Personalised medicine for diagnosis and prognosis
- Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data
- Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
- Advanced pathway enrichment analysis methods
- Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
- Bio-molecular databases and data mining
- Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and
synthetic systems
- Computational simulation of biological systems
- Methods and advances in systems biology
- Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems
- Network systems biology
- Models for cell populations and tissues
- Methods for the engineering of synthetic components
- Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems
- Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and
synthetic biology
- Computational drug discovery
- Operational research in healthcare and bioinformatics

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KEYNOTE Speakers (confirmed)
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Michele Ceccarelli, Professor of Computational Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, FL (USA)
Ruth Heller, Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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ORGANISATION
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- GENERAL CHAIRS

Francesco Napolitano, University of Sannio, Italy
Luigi Cerulo, University of Sannio, Italy

- SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR

Stefano Maria Pagnotta, University of Sannio, Italy

- MAIN TRACK CHAIRS

Bioinformatics: Annalisa Occhipinti, Teesside University, UK
Biostatistics: Cheng Lu, Aalto University, Finland
Medical Informatics: Francesco Bardozzo, University of Salerno, Italy

- STEERING COMMITTEE

Roberto Tagliaferri, Università di Salerno, Italy
Davide Chicco, University of Toronto, Canada
Francesco Masulli, Università di Genova, Italy
Elia Biganzoli, Università Statale di Milano, Italy
Clelia Di Serio, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy
Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA
Alexandru Floares, Solutions of AI Applications Institute, Romania
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, England
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Leif Peterson, Rice University, USA