********** CSBio 2020 - 2nd Call for Papers *********

CSBio 2020 : The 11th International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics
Bangkok, Thailand, November 19-21, 2020
http://www.csbio.org/2020/


Important Dates
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Regular paper submission deadline: August 1, 2020
Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2020
Camera-ready paper and early-bird registration: October 1, 2020


Aims and Scope
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With the advancement in next-generation molecular technology in generating the high-throughput “omics” data, life science has come to the era of “big data”. To extract biological knowledge from the data and translate it into benefits for society (e.g. better medicine and healthcare), novel and advanced computational tools are needed for data analysis. The current trends are to leverage AI and application of cognitive computing that combines domain knowledge with machine learning.

The call for paper targets contribution in the field of computational approaches designed to face the challenges aroused by biological systems. It aims at giving an overview of the cutting-edge methods and tools to address biological systems. A Special Session on COVID-19 Health, Analytics, and Technologies (CHAT-2020) will provide an opportunity for global research linkages and experience sharing.

CSBio 2020 would like to invite researchers and industrial counterparts to meet at this event to exchange ideas and stimulate research collaborations.

THEME: Innovation with AI and Cognitive Computing

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Adaptive computation in bioinformatics
* Bio-data visualization
* Bio-inspired computing
* Biological network reconstruction and analysis
* Biomarker discovery
* Computational systems biology
* Coronavirus disease
* Disease classification
* DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis
* Drug discovery and validation
* Epigenetics/epigenomics
* Epidemiology
* Formal validation of biological systems
* Functional genomics
* Gene expression analysis
* Health informatics
* Human-centric applications
* Medical and biomedical informatics
* Metagenomics data analysis
* Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, etc.
* Molecular evolution and phylogeny
* Next-generation and Third-generation sequencing
* Parallel and distributed computing for life science
* Population genetics
* Proteomics & other omics
* Protein folding
* Translational bioinformatics
* COVID-19 Health, Analytics, and Technologies (CHAT-2020)

Paper Submission
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The CSBio 2020 online submission system is opened at EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csbio2020).

Submitted papers should describe original work that does not overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the ACM SIG style (sigconf template). Full papers needs to be at least 5 pages and should not exceed 10 pages and must be submitted via EasyChair system. Short papers of up to 4 pages may be considered as well as extended abstracts of up to 2 pages. More information about the formatting of the paper can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 8 pages. References and appendices will not be counted in the page limit during the initial submission process.

Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for initial submission is 8 pages. References and appendices will not be counted in the page limit during the initial submission process.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and subjected to single-blind review process by at least two reviewers; full submissions will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference, either in person or remotely. All submissions will be checked for originality.


Publications
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The CSBio 2020 proceedings will be published in electronic form by ACM ICPS, which is indexed by Scopus, ISI Web of Science, EI Compendex, and other major databases, and will be available at the ACM Digital Library. The ISBN number assigned to CSBio2020 is 978-1-4503-8823-8. Post-conference special issues to appear in indexed international journals such as Computers in Biology and Medicine (Elsevier); Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (World Scientific); Heliyon Computer Science (Cell Press - an imprint of Elsevier); and so on.


Collocated Conferences
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- The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2020 - http://iconip2020.apnns.org/)
- The 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2020- http://www.acml-conf.org/2020/)