11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2012)

The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) is the official conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet). The main objective of InCoB is to provide a platform for experts and budding bioinformaticians to discuss and exchange ideas and thoughts on the development of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region. Beginning in 2002, InCoB has grown to become one of the largest bioinformatics conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. This annual conference showcases the latest research and technologies in all areas of bioinformatics and is attended by practitioners from both biology and computing backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region. In recognition that it has been ten years since the inception of InCoB in Bangkok in 2002, InCoB2012 will be hosted again by Thailand during 3-5 October 2012 at the newly renovated world-class Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok, Thailand. The main hosts are NSTDA (National Science and technology Development Agency), the umbrella organization overseeing the previous hosts of InCoB2002, BIOTEC (National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology) and KMUTT (King Mongkut’s University of Technology) , one of nine National Research Universities in Thailand and an education pioneer in the field of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics.

The theme for InCoB2012 will be “From Biological Data to Knowledge to Technological Breakthroughs”. Thus, the conference aims to promote the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology and encourage the exchange of scientific breakthrough amongst participants. InCoB2012 will include the latest bioinformatics and related topics on agroinformatics, population genetics, drug design and discovery, systems biology, biological sequence analysis, expression data analysis, scalable data storage and other related subjects. There will be pre-conference tutorials, special sessions, panel discussions, competitions, and technical visits to the Thailand Science Park, the country’s leading integrated R&D hub, home to NSTDA, as well as to the newly opened Biopharmaceutical cGMP Pilot Plant at KMUTT.

Theme: From Biological Data to Knowledge to Technological Breakthroughs
The InCoB 2012 conference will include (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Agroinformatics
• Bioimaging
  
• Bioinformatics applications
• Bioinformatics models, methods & algorithms
• Biological sequence analysis
• Bio-ontology and semantics database management
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Disease bioinformatics
• Drug design and discovery
• Genetics of cell differentiation & reprogramming
• Genomics
• Genome and proteome manipulation
• Immunoinformatics
• High through-put omics and imaging platforms
• Medical and health informatics
• Metabolomics
• Metagenomic
• Microarray analysis
• Population genetics
• Proteomics
• Scalable data storage
• Structural bioinformatics
• Systems biology
• Synthetic biology
• Workflow and knowledge management

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
(all deadlines are midnight (GMT +7h) Bangkok time)

Research papers (BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Immunological Methods, Systems and Synthetic Biology): APRIL 1, 2012
Posters/Demonstrations: MAY 15, 2012
Break-out session proposals: MAY15, 2012
APBioNet Travel Grant applications: JULY 1, 2012
Late-breaking abstracts: JULY 15, 2012
Early-bird registration deadline: AUGUST 1, 2012
Sponsorship/event registration : SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

All paper and poster submissions to InCoB2012 must be uploaded to EasyChair conference system for review.
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2012

• Juncai Ma, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), P.R. China
• Jurg Ott, Rockefeller University, USA & Institute of Psychology, CAS, P.R. China
• Jane Rogers, The Genome Analysis Centre, UK
• Ram Samudrara, University of Washington, USA
• Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
• Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Japan
• David Wayne Ussery, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Yongyuth Yuthavong, Mahidol University & BIOTEC, Thailand

URL http://incob2012.org/register/registration.asp