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Previous events were held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015). The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.   VENUE: AlCoB 2016 will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called "conquistadores" who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue will be the Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies.   SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Microbiome analysis Systems biology   STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2016 will consist of: invited lectures invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions   INVITED SPEAKERS (to be completed): S. Cenk Sahinalp (SimonFraserUniversity), Big Data Algorithmics for Cancer Genomics David Sankoff (University of Ottawa), The Evolution of Gene Order in the Flowering Plants   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) Timothy L. Bailey (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Vladimir Bajic (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) Geoff Barton (University of Dundee, UK) Inanc Birol (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) Jacek Błażewicz (PoznańUniversity of Technology, Poland) Alan P. Boyle (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) Vladimir Brusic (NazarbayevUniversity, Astana, Kazakhstan) Liming Cai (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, Italy) Ken Chen (University of Texas MD AndersonCancerCenter, Houston, USA) Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Laurent Gautier (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA) Manolo Gouy (ClaudeBernardUniversity Lyon 1, France) Michael Gribskov (PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, USA) Iman Hajirasouliha (Stanford University, USA) John Hancock (Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK) Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece) Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, USA) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, Japan) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Lukasz Kurgan (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) Bill Majoros (DukeUniversity, Durham, USA) Lennart Martens (Ghent University, Belgium) Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Kenta Nakai (University of Tokyo, Japan) Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mihaela Pertea (JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, USA) Ben Raphael (BrownUniversity, Providence, USA) Paolo Ribeca (Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK) Denis Shields (UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland) Fredj Tekaia (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France) Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy) Fuli Yu (BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, USA) Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Kaizhong Zhang (University of WesternOntario, London, Canada) Weixiong Zhang (WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA) Zhongming Zhao (VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, USA) Yaoqi Zhou (GriffithUniversity, Brisbane, Australia) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Leslye Alarcón (Cáceres) María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) José M. Granado-Criado (Cáceres) Sergio Santander-Jiménez (Cáceres) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)   SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2016   PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2014 JCR impact factor: 1.438, quartile Q1) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.   REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from October 30, 2015 to June 21, 2016. 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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR = COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

 

AlCoB 2016

 

Trujillo, Spain

 

June 21-23, 2016

 

Organized by:

 

Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO)

University of Extremadura

 

Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies (CETA-Ciem= at)

 

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/

*******************************************************= *****************************

 

AIMS:

 

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string a= nd graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in= biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, an= d structure prediction.

 

Previous events were held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015).

 

The conference will address several of the current challenges in computa= tional biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:

 

1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,

2) identifying gene structures in the genome,

3) recognizing regulatory motifs,

4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,

5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and

6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

 

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be= reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

 

VENUE:

 

AlCoB 2016 will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called &ldquo= ;conquistadores” who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue wi= ll be the Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies.

 

SCOPE:

 

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not li= mited to:

 

Exact sequence analysis

Approximate sequence analysis

Pairwise sequence alignment

Multiple sequence alignment

Sequence assembly

Genome rearrangement

Regulatory motif finding

Phylogeny reconstruction

Phylogeny comparison

Structure prediction

Compressive genomics

Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks

Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification= , differential analysis

Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatrans= criptomics

Microbiome analysis

Systems biology

 

STRUCTURE:

 

AlCoB 2016 will consist of:

 

invited lectures

invited tutorials

peer-reviewed contributions

 

INVITED SPEAKERS (to be completed):

 

S. Cenk Sahinalp (SimonFraserUniversity), Big Data Algorithmics for Canc= er Genomics

 

David Sankoff (University of Ottawa), The Evolution of Gene Order in the= Flowering Plants

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

 

Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)

Timothy L. Bailey (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

Vladimir Bajic (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuw= al, Saudi Arabia)

Geoff Barton (University of Dundee, UK)

Inanc Birol (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

Jacek B=C5=82a=C5=BCewicz (Pozna=C5=84University of Technology, Poland)<= /p>

Alan P. Boyle (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

Vladimir Brusic (NazarbayevUniversity, Astana, Kazakhstan)

Liming Cai (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)

Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, Italy)

Ken Chen (University of Texas MD AndersonCancerCenter, Houston, USA)

Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Laurent Gautier (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge,= USA)

Manolo Gouy (ClaudeBernardUniversity Lyon 1, France)

Michael Gribskov (PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, USA)

Iman Hajirasouliha (Stanford University, USA)

John Hancock (Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK)

Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)

Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, USA)

Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, Japan)

Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

Lukasz Kurgan (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

Bill Majoros (DukeUniversity, Durham, USA)

Lennart Martens (Ghent University, Belgium)

Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, Tarragona, Spain,= chair)

Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Kenta Nakai (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Mihaela Pertea (JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, USA)

Ben Raphael (BrownUniversity, Providence, USA)

Paolo Ribeca (Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK)

Denis Shields (UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland)

Fredj Tekaia (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)

Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy)

Fuli Yu (BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, USA)

Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)

Kaizhong Zhang (University of WesternOntario, London, Canada)

Weixiong Zhang (WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA)

Zhongming Zhao (VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, USA)

Yaoqi Zhou (GriffithUniversity, Brisbane, Australia)

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

 

María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)

Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

 

LOCAL COMMITTEE:

 

Leslye Alarcón (Cáceres)

María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair)

José M. Granado-Criado (Cáceres)

Sergio Santander-Jiménez (Cáceres)

Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presentin= g original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spa= ced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and sho= uld be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS= series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=3D0-164-6-793341-0= ).

 

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dalcob2016

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series wi= ll be available by the time of the conference.

 

A special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Bi= ology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2014 JCR impact factor: 1.438, quartile Q1)= will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended ve= rsions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to = it will be by invitation.

 

REGISTRATION:

 

The period for registration is open from October 30, 2015 to June 21, 20= 16. The registration form can be found at:

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/Registration.php

 

DEADLINES:

 

Paper submission: January 26, 2016 (23:59 CET)

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 1, 2016

Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 15, 2016=

Early registration: March 15, 2016

Late registration: June 7, 2016

Submission to the journal special issue: September 23, 2016

 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

 

florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat

 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

 

AlCoB 2016

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

 

Phone: +34 977 559 543

Fax: +34 977 558 386

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

 

Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CETA-CIEMAT)

Universidad de Extremadura

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

 

 
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