The Tenth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
Melbourne, Australia, 17-19 January 2012
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ypchen/APBC2012/

The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an
annual forum for exploring research, development and
novel applications of Bioinformatics.

The past APBC conferences were held in:
•APBC2003 4-7 Feb 2003: Adelaide Australia
•APBC2004 18-22 Jan 2004: Dunedin, New Zealand
•APBC2005 17-21 Jan 2005: Singapore
•APBC2006 13-16 Feb 2006: Taipei Taiwan
•APBC2007 15-17 Jan 2007: Hong Kong
•APBC2008 14-17 Jan 2008: Kyoto Japan
•APBC2009 13-16 Jan 2009: Beijing China
•APBC2010 18-21 Jan 2010: Bangalore, India
•APBC2011 11-14 Jan 2011: Inchon, Korea

The past APBC papers:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ypchen/APBChomepage.htm

Topics of Interest
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Sequence Analysis
- Motif Finding
- Ontology
- Databases and Data Integration
- Biomedical Literature Mining and Understanding
- Recognition of Genes and Functional Elements
- RNA Analysis
- Physical and Genetic Mapping
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny
- Protein Structure Analysis
- Microarray Design and Data Analysis
- Deep Sequencing Data Processing
- Transcriptome, Gene Expression
- Epigenomics
- Proteomics and Post-Translational Modifications
- Pathways, Networks and Systems
- Population Genetics, SNP and Haplotyping
- Comparative Genomics
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Call for Papers

APBC2012 invites high-quality original full papers on any topic related to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

The submitted papers must have not been published or under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference with formal proceedings.
All accepted papers will have to be presented by one of the authors at the conference.

Accepted papers will be invited to be published in the journal BMC Genomics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications and other Bioinformatic journals.

Papers should be 30 pages (1 column) 12 point font, including the title, authors and addresses, abstract, text, figures, tables, and references, please follow the style according to.
TeX/LaTeX - TeX template,
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/ifora/tex
Microsoft Word - Word template,
http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/templates/BMC154d.dot
Authors can provide supplementary materials at their own website if necessary.

Use the following linked site to make your submission
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=apbc2012

Important Dates
Paper submission: 20th July 2011 *******
Author Notification: 20th Aug 2011
Final Version due on: 1st Oct 2011
Tutorial submission open: 1st July 2011
Poster submission open: 3rd Oct 2011
Registration open: 22nd Aug 2011

Program Committee Chairs:
Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Australia)

Program Committee Members (Confirmed):
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Masanori Arita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Vladimir Brusic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jake Yue Chen, Indiana U. School of Informatics, USA
Francis Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jung Kyoon Choi, KAIST, Korea
In-Sun Chu, KRIBB, Korea
Kyungsook Han, INHA University, Korea
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jun Huan, U. of Kansas, USA
Hsien-Da Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Daniel Huson, University at Tubingen, Tubingen
Jenn-Kang Hwang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Hyunju Lee, GIST, Korea
Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea
Wentian Li, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA
Jingchu Luo, Peking University, China
Bin Ma, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan
Geoff McLachlan, University of Queensland, Australia
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenta Nakai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mark Ragan, University of Queensland, Australia
Naren Ramakrishan, Graduate Studies (bio), India
Cenk Sahinalp, SFU, Canada
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada
Thomas Schlitt, King's College London, United Kingdon
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, IISc, India
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia, Spain
Lusheng Wang, The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Yan, The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ueng Cheng Yang, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
S.M. Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kim Young, KRIBB, Korea
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Hongyu Zhao, Yale School of Public Health, USA