The twenty-first Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), will be held January 4-8, 2016 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. PSB will bring together top researchers from North America, the Asian Pacific nations, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB will provide a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. PSB intends to attract a balanced combination of computer scientists and biologists, presenting significant original research, demonstrating computer systems, and facilitating formal and informal discussions on topics of importance to computational biology.

To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve both formal research presentations and open discussion groups.

* Discovery of Molecularly Targeted Therapies
* Innovative Approaches to Combining Genotype, Phenotype, Epigenetic, and Exposure Data for Precision Diagnostics
* Methods to Enhance the Reproducibility of Precision Medicine
* Precision Medicine: Data and Discovery for Improved Health and Therapy
Regulatory RNA
* Social Media Mining for Public Health Monitoring and Surveillance

Important dates
Paper submissions due: July 27, 2015 midnight PT
Notification of paper acceptance: September 14, 2015
Final paper deadline: October 5, 2015 11:59PM PT
Abstract deadline: November 17, 2015 11:59PM PT
Meeting: January 4-8, 2016