[BiO BB] Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Stream

[jpt at Cs.Nott.AC.UK]

[We would be grateful if you could disseminate this call for abstracts]

OR53 Annual Conference
Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Stream
*Extended* deadline for abstract submission: June 13, 2011
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The aim of this stream is to build a bridge between the research fields of 
Operational Research and Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology. On 
one hand, this stream focuses on the application of OR approaches to 
biological problems, in particular to those in Bioinformatics, Systems and 
Synthetic Biology. On the other hand, it also aims at showcasing to the OR 
community a whole new set of possible applications and challenges for their 
methods.

The scope of this stream includes (but is not limited to):

- Synthetic and Systems Biology - Modelling, simulation and optimisation of 
biological systems - Data mining of biological databases - Data analysis of 
the -omics universe (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) - 
Computer Vision methods for the imaging of biological tissue - Sequence 
analysis - Structural Bioinformatics - Text Mining and Ontologies - 
Genome-wise analysis - Gene expression and signalling networks

The best contributions to the stream will be invited to submit extended 
versions of their abstracts to an special issue of the Memetic Computing 
journal dedicated to "Operational Research for Bioinformatics, Systems and 
Synthetic Biology".

Please feel free to contact the stream organisers if you have any questions 
regarding the applicability of a potential submission or any other 
questions in relation to this stream.

If you would like to give a talk in this stream, please submit a title and 
an extended abstract (which can be as short as half a page or up to 6 
pages) via

http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/orcontent.aspx?inc=or53_main.htm

and selecting 'Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology' as stream.


Further details:

* Conference web site: 
http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/orcontent.aspx?inc=or53_main.htm * Call for 
papers: http://www.orsoc.org.uk/conf/or53/or53_CallForPapers.pdf * Deadline 
for abstract submission: June 13th, 2011. * Conference location and dates: 
East Midlands Conference Center, U.K., 6th-8th September, 2011.

Organisers:

Dr. Jamie Twycross
Centre for Plant Integrative Biology
University of Nottingham
jpt at cs.nott.ac.uk

Dr. Jaume Bacardit
School of Computer Science & School of Biosciences
University of Nottingham
jqb at cs.nott.ac.uk

Stream Sponsors:
- The SynBioNT synthetic biology network (http://www.synbiont.org/)
- The Logistics of Small Things (http://www.thelogisticsofsmallthings.net)