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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>1st IEEE
International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and medical Sciences
(ICCABS)</span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Feb. 3</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>5, 2011,
Orlando, Florida</span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Advances in high</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>throughput
technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry are profoundly
transforming life sciences, resulting in the collection of unprecedented
amounts of biological and medical data. Using this data to advance our
knowledge about fundamental biological processes and improve human health
requires novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms. IEEE
ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to
discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical
sciences. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:normal'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Topics of
interest include but are not limited to: </span></b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Biological modeling and
simulation, Biomedical image processing, Biomedical data and literature mining,
Computational genetic epidemiology, Computational metabolomics, Computational
proteomics, Databases and ontologies, Gene regulation, Genome analysis, Health
Informatics, High</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>performance bio</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>computing,
Immunoinformatics, Molecular evolution, Population genomics, Sequence analysis,
Structural bioinformatics, Systems biology, Transcriptomics. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:normal'><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Full versions of
selected extended abstracts will be published in </span></i><a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/"><b><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>BMC
Bioinformatics</span></i></b></a><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'> and </span></i><a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/"><b><i><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>BMC Genomics</span></i></b></a><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>. We expect to
accept around 16 papers for BMC. BMC has agreed to reduce the Article
Processing Cost for these papers. A limited number of student travel awards
will be made (conditional upon NSF support).</span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border="0" width="130" height="60" id="Picture 1" src="cid:image001.gif" alt="Description: http://www.iccabs.org/common/images/BMCBio.gif"></span></a><a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border="0" width="97" height="60" id="Picture 2" src="cid:image002.gif" alt="Description: http://www.iccabs.org/common/images/BMCG.gif"></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
</span></a></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Keynote Speakers</span></b></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Andrea Califano, Columbia
University</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kettering
Cancer Center</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>John Reif, Duke University</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Invited Speakers</span></b></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Paola Bonizzoni; universit di
Milano-Bicocca</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dan Brown, University of Waterloo</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Oliver Eulenstein; Iowa State University</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Giri Narasimhan; Florida
International University</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mihai Pop; University of Maryland</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Li-San Wang; University of
Pennsylvania</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alex Zelikovsky; Georgia State
University</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Important Dates</span></b></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Abstract submission:</span></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Notification of
acceptance:</span></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Camera</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"'>‐</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ready version
and author registration:</span></b></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dec. 10, 2010</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Jan. 10, 2011</span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Jan. 20, 2011</span></li>
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