This conference will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in Computational Intelligence and other areas of Artificial Intelligence, as applied to real world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, medicine, bioengineering, and related fields. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Gene expression array analysis
• Epigenetics
• Structure prediction and folding
• Molecular sequence alignment and analysis
• Metabolic pathway analysis
• MicroRNA analysis
• Motif detection
• Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
• Systems and synthetic biology
• Modeling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems
• Robustness and evolvability of biological networks
• Biological network reconstruction
• Effective use of BLAST and alternatives
• Ecoinformatics and applications to ecological data analysis
• Medical imaging and pattern recognition
• Biomedical data modeling and mining
• Biomedical model parameterization
• Big data analysis and tools for biological and medical data
• Biomarker discovery and development
• Personalized medicine and treatment optimization
• Neuroscience

In addition, the following special sessions have been accepted to date:
• Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB)
• Gene Ontology and Applications (GO)
• Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Image Processing for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Medicine (PRDMIP)
• Computational Intelligence in Ecoinformatics
• Side Effect Machines for Sequence Analysis

The use of computational intelligence or artificial intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and will be considered for publication in journal special issues.