BCB

The 2010 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB-2010) is the first ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) conference in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and biomedical informatics. The ACM-BCB-2010 is aimed to bridge interdisciplinary research areas in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine and to provide an interactive forum for professional researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from around the world to discuss latest advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in biological and biomedical research due to advent of new high-throughput technologies and next generation sequencing. Novel massive data stored in fast growing databases has called for more powerful algorithms that could identify genes and proteins, infer their function, predict protein structures, and identified protein-protein interactions. Clearly, the ability to analyze all these data concurrently will lead to greater understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying heredity and disease. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology cut across a broad range of research topics from genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics to systems biology, tissue engineering, and medical image analysis. Development of efficient computational methods in all these areas is critically important for solving biological and biomedical problems that holds keys for improving human health.

ACM-BCB annual conferences are dedicated to develop interactions between experienced and junior researchers in the fields of computer science, computer engineering, applied computing, biology, medicine, biophysical sciences and life sciences. It assembles research workshops, keynote and tutorial lectures, as well as special interest research sessions into a coordinated research meeting.

To promote interdisciplinary research and training the conference agenda includes two keynote speeches, two tutorial lectures, and one panel discussion. In addition to the main conference, ACM-BCB-2010 also features four workshops: (1) Gene Networks and Pathway Analysis, (2) Graph Theoretic Approaches for Biological Network Analysis, (3) Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology, and (4) Protein-protein Interaction Data: Management, Querying and Analysis. In preparation for ACM-BCB-2010, we received 164 paper submissions. The conference program features 37 regular papers, 27 short papers, and 30 poster papers. The conference concludes on August 4, 2010 with nominations and selections of awards for best paper, best student paper, and best poster.