Call for Papers - BIOTECHNO 2008

Bio-oriented technologies became very popular in various research topics and industrial market segments. Current human mechanisms seem to offer significant ways for improving theories, algorithms, technologies, products and systems. A myriad of theoretical models, dedicated software solutions, and mathematical algorithms and calculi helps improving gathering and representing knowledge on human being. Bioengineering and biomedical computation and representation techniques rely on special biocomputing techniques inspired from this process. Bioinformatics itself constitutes a vast area of research and specialization, as many classical domains such as databases, modeling, and regular expressions are used to represent, store, retrieve and process a huge volume of knowledge. Large scale biosystems opened the need for specific devices, such as biomechanical, biorobotics, nanosensors, human-oriented control systems, etc. As progress is extremely fast, there is a continuous need to keep pace with the developments and achievements, as well as with challenging issues. BIOTECHNO brings together achievements and challenges for practical software and hardware support, highlighting the advances in biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies.

The BIOTECHNO 2008 initiates a series of events targeting traditional and advanced paradigms for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical technologies and systems. The conference covers also fundamentals on bio-ontologies and theoretical support, and highlights new challenging industrial applications and research topics.

Topics
Bio-ontologies

• Software environments for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical applications
• Medical informatics
• Epidemic models
• Biological data mining
• Biomedical knowledge discovery
• Pattern classification and recognition
• Mathematical biology
• Graph theory and bioinformatics
• Stochastic modeling
• Biological databases and information retrieval
• Processing mutation information
• Archiving of mutation specific information

• Computational biology
• Bioengineering
• Biomedical image computing and informatics
• Biomedical automation and control
• Image-based diagnosis and therapy
• Modeling and simulation of systems biology
• Applications of large-scale bio-systems

• Bioinformatics modeling
• Bioinformatics databases
• Genomics
• Biostatistics
• Structural and functional genomics
• Molecular sequence and structure databases
• Molecular interactions and structure predictions
• RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
• Gene regulation and expression databases
• Gene identification and pattern discovery
• Gene expression analysis
• Modeling and simulation of biomarkers

• Biomaterials
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Biomedical metrology and certification
• Biomedical sensors
• Biomedical monitoring devices
• Biological data integration
• Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
• Biological data visualization
• Biometric screening techniques
• Biorobotics
• Biomedical devices with embedded computers
• Biocomputing and Biochips
• Synthetic Biological Systems

• combinatorial chemistry
• graph theory in chemistry
• drug design
• concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery
• prediction of drug toxicity
• property prediction
• molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations
• modeling and measurements of solid-liquid and vapor-liquid equilibria
• metabolomics and machine learning
• blood-brain barrier penetration
• comparison of the similarity/diversity of chemo-data libraries
• chemoinformatics applications

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The BIOTECHNO 2008 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes.

Important deadlines:
Submission deadline February 5, 2008
Notification March 15, 2008
Registration and camera ready April 15, 2008

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page (http://www.iaria.org/instructions.html#format). Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the IEEE Authors Tools (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html).

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers.

Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials.

Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

Workshop proposals
Workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference are welcome.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPBIOTECHNO08.html