CALL FOR PAPERS

4th IAPR International Conference in
Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics (PRIB 2009)
City Hall, Sheffield, United Kingdom
7 - 9 September 2009
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/prib2009/prib2009.html

SCOPE

The International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) sponsored conference aims to bring together top researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in the life sciences. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the research areas of interest to the workshop. These include:

• Bio-sequence analysis
• Gene and protein expression analysis
• Protein structure and interaction prediction
• Motifs and signal detection
• Metabolic modelling and analysis
• Systems and synthetic biology
• Pathway and network analysis
• Immuno- and chemo-informatics
• Evolution and phylogeny
• Biological databases, integration and visualisation
• Bio-imaging

Pattern recognition techniques of interest include, but not limited to:

• Static, syntactic and structural pattern recognition
• Data mining, Data based modelling
• Neural networks, Fuzzy systems
• Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence
• Hidden Markov models, Graphical models

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine)
• Alvis Brazma (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)
• Gunnar Rätsch (Max Planck Institute, Tübingen)
• Michael Unser (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

DEADLINES

• Paper Submission (Extended Deadline) 24 April 2009
• Special Sessions Proposal 1 April 2009
• Author Notification 30 May 2009
• Camera Ready Papers 1 July 2009
• Early Bird Registration 15 July 2009

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Enhanced versions of selected special papers will be included in a special issue in the International Journal of Systems Science.

PRIZES

Awards will be presented to the authors of the Best Student Paper and the Best Conference Paper. A limited number of travel awards are available to non-EU students.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• General Chairs: Visakan Kadirkamanathan (UK), Guido Sanguinetti (UK)
• General Co-Chairs: Raj Acharya (USA), Madhu Chetty (Australia)
• Programme Chairs: Mahesan Niranjan (UK), Mark Girolami (UK), Jagath Rajapakse (Singapore)
• Special Sessions Chair: Cesare Furlanello (Italy)
• Tutorials Chair: Florence deAlche-buc (France)
• Publicity Chair: Elena Marchiori (Netherlands)
• Publications Chair: Josselin Noirel (UK)
• Local Organisation Chair: Daniel Coca (UK)
• Finance Chair: Andrew Zammit Mangion (UK)
• Webmaster: Maurizio Filippone (UK)

CONTACT

For additional information, contact:
PRIB 2009 Secretariat,
Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering,
The University of Sheffield,
Mappin Street,
Sheffield S1 3JD,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 114 2225618
Fax: +44 114 2225661
prib2009@sheffield.ac.uk