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2008 International Conference
on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology
and Artificial Life (BSBAL
2008)
Glasgow, UK, 22-24 July 2008
Call for Papers (PDF)
Online
Submission extended to 11 April 2008
Online submission
links:
BSBAL 2008
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsbal08
Co-located Events:
2008 Sinoeuropean
Engineering Research Forum
SERF 2008 Call for
Papers opens to 15 May 2008
Systems Biology is
concerned with the systemic study of complex interactions in biological
systems and provides a quantitative systemic approach to understanding
complex biological phenomena. On the other hand, Artificial Life aims at
the study of all phenomena characteristic of natural living systems,
through methodologies of synthesis implemented in computational, robotic
or other artificial architectures. Needless to say, the ultimate goal
for the understanding and modeling of biological systems is at the
synthesis and simulation of biological behaviors and functions, across
which bioinformatics plays an important underpinning role. Recent
progresses in bioinformatics, systems biology and artificial life are
extraordinarily exciting and are calling for much broader and further
deep-stretching interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Topics of particular interest include (but
not limited to) the followings.
(1)
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
-
analysis/interpretation of biological mechanisms/phenomena
- computational anatomy
- computational
molecular biology
- computational systems
biology
- computational
transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics
- gene identification,
regulation and expression
- genotype - phenotype
linkage
- identification of
gene regulatory networks
- integrative modeling
and simulation frameworks, articulations between multi-scale biological
models
- mathematical models
for biology
- metabolic control
analysis
- microarray analysis
- microarray modeling
and analyses
- multi-scale modeling
of biological systems/networks (molecular, cellular, tissue, organism, living
individual)
- multi-scale
simulation of biological systems/networks/phenomena
- pathways (genetic,
signaling, metabolic)
- prediction and
integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
-
protein-protein-interactions
(2) Bioinformatic
Tools
and Platforms
- bio-ontologies
- computational
infrastructure for biotechnology
- computational tools
for sequencing
- database integration
for bioinformatics
- grid computing /
software agents for medical or biological applications
- integrative data and
text mining approaches
- knowledge-driven /
semantic analysis and data integration for
high-throughput
biological data
- molecular
bioinformatics
- molecular databases /
data warehouses
- text and data mining
for bioinformatics
- visualization
(molecules, blood flow)
(3)
Artificial Life
- action-perception
loops
- adaptive behavior and
evolution
- ant systems
- artificial brain
research
- autocatalytic systems
- bioelectronics,
biomimetics
- bio-inspired robots
- biologically inspired
computation, machine intelligence
- bio-morphic
engineering
- bio-robotics
- brain informatics
- brain-body linkage
- collective robotics,
robotic swarms
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complex adaptive networks and systems
- embodied cognition,
brain-body-environment interaction
- evolution and
adaptation
- evolvable hardware
- homeostasis and
autopoiesis
- immune systems
- in-silico biology
- molecular computer,
DNA computing
- molecular
self-assembly
- morphogenesis of
artificial systems and natural systems
- self-assembly
- self-organization
- self-replication
- sensorimotor
coordination
- social behavior,
social interaction
- swarm intelligence
- synthesis and origin
of life
- synthetic biology
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