Call for Papers of the Special Session

Soft Computing Methods in Bioinformatics
http://soco13.usal.es/?q=node/66

to be held within the

The 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications.
September 11th-13th, 2013
Salamanca, Spain
http://soco13.usal.es

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Bioinformatics and computational biology present many complex optimization and data mining problems that can be addressed using soft computing methods. The amount of information from biological experiments and the applications involving large-scale high-throughput technologies is rapidly increasing nowadays. Soft computing and machine learning algorithms are well-suited for many bioinformatics problems including gene selection, clustering and classification, signal processing and image analysis. The scope of this special session covers the development of computational models and algorithms for bioinformatics data mining. This special session will highlight the applications of soft computing methods to a broad range of topics from bioinformatics.

Topics include, but are not limited to, applications of soft computing for:

 Microarray and gene expression analysis
 Gene regulatory and ontology networks
 Protein and RNA structure prediction
 Analysis of large biological datasets
 Data integration and fusion
 Classification and clustering
 Feature selection
 Signal processing
 Text mining in molecular biology
 Gene regulation and transcriptomics
 Molecular docking and drug design
 Metabolic pathway analysis
 Image analysis in bioinformatics
 Computational proteomics

Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the
Program Committee. Accepted contributions are to be published in the SOCO
Proceedings.

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*** CO-CHAIRS ***

Camelia Chira, Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León, Spain & Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo, Spain
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Javier Sedano, Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León, Spain


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*** PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCCEEDINGS (TENTATIVE)
SOCO'13 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of AISC Series (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series).

Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must be no more than
ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography.
Additional pages (over 10 pages) will be charged at 150 Euro each.


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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
Paper submission deadline 20th April, 2013
Acceptance notification 20th May, 2013
Final version submission 10th June, 2013
Conference dates 11th - 13th September, 2013
Payment deadline 2nd June, 2013

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*** CONTACT ***

Camelia Chira
E-mail: camelia.chira@itcl.es
Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León
Polígono Industrial Villalonquéjar
c/López Bravo 70, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Tel. +34 947 298 471
Fax. +34 947 298 091

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For more information about SOCO´13 and the SS on Soft Computing Methods in Bioinformatics, please refer to the SOCO´13 website:
http://soco13.usal.es