The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, academics, and industrial practitioners. We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics. GIW2012 invites high-quality original full papers on any topic related to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, but not limited to, the following topics:

-Genome-wide Association Study
-Gene Expression Analysis
-Genomic Database
-Sequence Analysis
-Functional Genomics
-Next-generation Sequencing
-Structural Genomics
-Simulation of Biological System
-Biomarker Identification and Drug Discovery
-Biological Network Reconstruction and Analysis
-Protein Interaction Networks
-Biological Databases
-Protein Structure and Function Prediction
-Medical and Biomedical Informatics
-Knowledge Extraction from Literature
-Modeling of Biological Systems
-Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
-Bio-data Visualization
-Gene Regulatory Networks
-Comparative Genomics

Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission deadline: July 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August 16, 2012
Camera-ready submission: September 5, 2012
Poster Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

The website: http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/giw2012
Contact us: giw2012@conf.ncku.edu.tw
Online Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=giw2012

Keynote Speakers:
Joe Nadeau
Director of Research and Academic Affairs
Institute for Systems Biology, U.S.A.

Hideo Matsuda
Professor of Osaka University, Japan

Wen-Hsiung Li
Director/Distinguished Research Fellow
Academia Sinica, Taiwan