16^th IEEE International Conference on
Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology

July 9-11, 2019

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Keynote Speakers

Pierre Baldi

School of Information & Computer Sciences, Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, USA

Riccardo Bellazzi

University of Pavia, Italy

Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia

EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK

About the Conference

This annual conference has become a major technical event in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering and related fields. The conference provides a global forum for academic and industrial scientists from a range of fields including computer science, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, statistics, and engineering, to discuss and present their latest research findings from theory to applications.

This conference will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence and its application to real world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology, synthetic biology, biomedicine, chemical informatics, bioengineering and related fields.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

CI in Bioinformatics

Evolution, phylogeny, comparative genomics
Gene expression array analysis
Metabolic pathway analysis
MicroRNA analysis
Molecular sequence alignment and analysis
Pattern recognition/data mining/optimization methods in Bioinformatics
Visualization of large biological data sets

CI in Computational Biology

Systems and synthetic biology
Structure prediction and folding
Modelling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems
Biological network reconstruction/robustness/evolvability
Epigenomics

CI in Biomedical Engineering, Bioprocessing and Healthcare Informatics

Medical imaging and pattern recognition
Biomedical data modelling/data mining/model parametrization
Parallel/high performance computing
Big data analysis and tools for biological and medical data
Biomarker discovery and development
Health data acquisition/analysis/mining
Healthcare information systems/knowledge representation/reasoning
Personalized medicine and treatment optimization
Biopharmaceutical manufacturing
Closed-loop optimization methods/platforms

Special Issues

After the conference, prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts to a Special Issue in “Deep Learning for Genomics/Bioinformatics” to be published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
All works presented at the event and related to other topics will be invited to submit for a Special Issue on IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

The Special Issue is open to anyone, i.e. having an accepted paper at CIBCB 2019 is not a requirement. Papers accepted at CIBCB 2019 need to be extended significantly before being submitted to the Special Issue.