Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Event Dates

Sep 04, 2024 - Sep 06, 2024

Location

Benevento - Italy

Submission Deadline

May 15, 2024

CIBB is a multidisciplinary forum for researchers interested in the

broad application of computational intelligence to open problems in

bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, and

medical informatics. CIBB is looking for contributions on current

trends and future opportunities at the interface between computer and

life sciences, as well as applications of computational intelligence

to system and synthetic biology. Computational, theoretical and experimental

biologists are encouraged to participate and present their experiences

facing novel challenges to foster multidisciplinary collaboration.

Authors are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages) describing

their original contributions. Submitted contributions will undergo

peer review, and all accepted contributions will be orally presented

in plenary and special sessions.

-** The DEADLINE for short paper submission is May 15, 2024 **-

Authors of all the accepted short papers presented at

the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their

manuscripts to the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture

Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) or to a supplement in a journal such as

BMC Bioinformatics or Journal of Translational Medicine (details to be

defined).

In addition to the main track, the conference will provide a

few special sessions focused on specific topics of interest for the

CIBB audience. To this aim research groups are invited to propose a

special session. A typical session includes 3 to 5 accepted papers

and may feature an invited speaker, who should be a distinguished

scientist with significant contributions to CIBB-relevant fields.

-** The DEADLINE for special session proposal is March 20, 2024 **-

Further information can be found on the conference website.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Special session proposal: March 20, 2024

Paper submission: May 15, 2024

Notification: June 20, 2024

Camera ready: July 5, 2024

Deadline for early-bird registration: July 15, 2024

Registrations close: August 15, 2024

Conference: September 4-6, 2024

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LIST OF TOPICS

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

– Applications of machine learning to bioinformatics or health datasets

– Data mining methods in biomedical contexts

– Artificial intelligence in biomedicine

– Next-generation sequencing bioalgorithms

– Multi-omics data analysis

– Statistical analysis of high dimensional omics data

– Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis

– Methods for visualisation of high-dimensional biomedical data

– Software tools for bioinformatics

– Methods for comparative genomics

– Computational tools for proteomics

– Simulation of biological systems and clinical populations

– Methods for the functional classification of genes

– Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis

– Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation, and visualisation of

structures discovered in bio-molecular data

– Health informatics and medical informatics

– Biomedical and microscopy imaging

– Methods for the integration of clinical, genetic, or environmental data

– Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion

– Algorithms for pharmacogenomics

– Biomedical text mining and natural language processing

– Bayesian methods for medical and biological data

– Health big data analytics

– Data-driven approaches for patient stratification, and prognosis or

onset prediction

– Process mining in healthcare

– Information retrieval, and temporal and spatial representation and

reasoning in biomedicine

– Simulation models, software, and tools (clinical decision support

systems, patient engagement support, visual analytics, solutions for

assisted living, and telemedicine)

– Biomedical signal processing

– Explainable AI and clinical model interpretation

– Personalised medicine for diagnosis and prognosis

– Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data

– Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures

– Advanced pathway enrichment analysis methods

– Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics

– Bio-molecular databases and data mining

– Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and

synthetic systems

– Computational simulation of biological systems

– Methods and advances in systems biology

– Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems

– Network systems biology

– Models for cell populations and tissues

– Methods for the engineering of synthetic components

– Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems

– Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and

synthetic biology

– Computational drug discovery

– Operational research in healthcare and bioinformatics

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KEYNOTE Speakers (confirmed)

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Michele Ceccarelli, Professor of Computational Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, FL (USA)

Ruth Heller, Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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ORGANISATION

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– GENERAL CHAIRS

Francesco Napolitano, University of Sannio, Italy

Luigi Cerulo, University of Sannio, Italy

– SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR

Stefano Maria Pagnotta, University of Sannio, Italy

– MAIN TRACK CHAIRS

Bioinformatics: Annalisa Occhipinti, Teesside University, UK

Biostatistics: Cheng Lu, Aalto University, Finland

Medical Informatics: Francesco Bardozzo, University of Salerno, Italy

– STEERING COMMITTEE

Roberto Tagliaferri, Università di Salerno, Italy

Davide Chicco, University of Toronto, Canada

Francesco Masulli, Università di Genova, Italy

Elia Biganzoli, Università Statale di Milano, Italy

Clelia Di Serio, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy

Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA

Alexandru Floares, Solutions of AI Applications Institute, Romania

Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, England

Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Leif Peterson, Rice University, USA