CIBB 2009
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS
Genova (Italy) 15-17 October, 2009
Conference Website: http://cibb09.disi.unige.it/

The main goal of the CIBB meetings is to provide a forum open to researchers
from different disciplines to present and discuss problems concerning
computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical
informatics with a particular focus on Neural Networks, Machine Learning,
Fuzzy Logic, and Evolutionary Computation methods.

CIBB 2009 is jointly organized by:
*INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bioinformatics
*GNCS Gruppo Nazionale Calcolo Scientifico
*HHF Human Health Foundation Onlus
*SIREN Italian Neural Networks Society
*RNBIO The Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics
*DISI Dept. Computer and Information Sciences - Univ. Genova (Italy)
*DMI Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Univ. Salerno (Italy)


Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2009 include, but are not limited to:
* Sequence analysis, promoter analysis and identification of transcription
factor binding sites
* Gene expression data analysis
* Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data
* Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
* Methods for the functional classification of genes
* Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of
structures discovered in bio-molecular data
* Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
* Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
* Methods for comparative genomics
* Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
* Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems
* Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics
* Bio-molecular databases and data mining
* Algorithms for pharmacogenetics
* Bio-medical text mining and imaging
* Methods for diagnosis and prognosis
* Software tools for bioinformatics

Gilles Bernot (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) and L. Gwenn
Volkert
(Kent State University, OH, USA) have confirmed to deliver an invited talk
at CIBB 2009.

The scientific program will include, besides some plenary talks, contributed
papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions.

Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference
proceedings.
A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2009 will be published a in post
conference
volume printed by an international publisher. Moreover, we are planning to
publish
the best papers in extended form in a special issue of an international
scientific
journal.

Chairs:
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA
Leif E. Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy

Scientific Program Committee:
Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Gilles Bernot, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Domenico Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
Giovanni Cuda, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigaci�n Pr�ncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
Enrico Formenti, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Antonio Giordano, University of Siena, Italy & Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA,
USA
Emmanuel Ifeachor, University of Plymouth, UK
Nicolas Le Novere, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK
Giancarlo Mauri,University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Giulio Pavesi, University of Milan, Italy
David Alejandro Pelta, University of Granada, Spain
Jagath Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Giuseppe Russo, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Italy
Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
L. Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
(list to be updated)

Steering Commitee:
Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy

Important Dates:
Tutorial and Special Session Proposals: 1 March 2009
Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2009 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009
Final paper due: 15 July 2009
Conference: 15-17 October 2009

Tutorial proposal:
Tutorial proposals including title, one page long abstract, and short cv of
presenters, are due by 1 March 2009.
Please, send the proposals to cibb2009chair@disi.unige.it

Special sessions:
Special session proposals including session's title and scope, short cv of
sessions chairs, preliminary list of papers (titles and authors) are due by
1 March 2009. Proposals of special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they
will be submitted. Please, send the proposals to cibb2009chair@disi.unige.it

Paper submission:
Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the CIBB web
site and should be not longer than 10 pages. The submission of papers will be
done by uploading their PDF version on the CIBB web site.