2012 IEEE Workshop on Nanoinformatics for Biomedicine

http://workshops.i-a-i.com/nanoinfo2012
October 4-7, 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA

In conjunction with
2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012)
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm12/

The application of nanotechnology in biomedicine offers innovative approaches to disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. To address the ever-growing information needs of nanomedicine, nanoinformatics is playing an important role in acquiring relevant data/information, conceptually organizing information for conversion to knowledge, and developing computing applications that are based on important parameters at the nanoscale and applicable in a broad health perspective.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on all the aspects of nanoinformatics to support biomedical research and advance knowledge on nanomaterial-biological interactions. The organizers are inviting participants to submit papers with unpublished and original research.

All accepted papers will be published in proceedings by IEEE. Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of related journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience).

Research topics include (but are not limited to):
• Nanomedicine
• Nanoinformatics
• Nanomaterial-biological interactions
• Modeling and simulation
• Computational biology/chemistry/medicine
• Computational toxicology
• Databases and repositories
• Data standards and Interoperability
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Text and literature mining
• Translational research
• Risk assessment and regulation
• Surveillance systems
• Ethical and social issues
• Others

Important Dates:
August 6, 2012: Paper submission deadline
August 27, 2012: Notification of paper acceptance
September 7, 2012: Camera-ready paper submission deadline
October 4-7, 2012: Workshop/Conference

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Kaizhi Tang, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA, ktang@i-a-i.com
Xiong Liu, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA, xliu@i-a-i.com
Jeffery A. Steevens, Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA, Jeffery.A.Steevens@usace.army.mil

Workshop Committee Members:
Demir Akin, Stanford University, USA
Nathan Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yoram Cohen, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Jacques Colinge, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria
Nily Dan, Drexel University, USA
Martin Fritts, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Sharon Gaheen, SAIC, USA
Stacey Harper, Oregon State University, USA
Hyunsoo Kim, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Martha Marrapese, Keller & Heckman, USA
Stanley Saamoah Moffatt, Regent University College of Science and Technology, Ghana
Michelle Ostraat, RTI International, USA
Sue Pan, SAIC, USA
Thomas J Webster, Brown University, USA
Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Paper Submission:
Please submit a paper (up to 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the main BIBM submission system:
http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2012/bibm12/cbc_index.html
You can find detailed formatting instructions and document templates at:
http://workshops.i-a-i.com/content/paper-submission