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Date: Thu Dec 13 20:09:53 2007<br />
Subject: 08.06.29 <span class="fancysmall">BIOTECHNO 2008, Int Conf on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technologies,Bucharest, Romania</span><br />

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BIOTECHNO 2008, The International Conference on Biocomputation, 
Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies
<a href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/BIOTECHNO08.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/BIOTECHNO08.html</a>


Call for Papers: 

You are cordially invited to participate to the Chemoinformatics, 
Bioinformatics, and Biocomputing sections of BIOTECHNO 2008, 
June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania

We may also organize Workshops, Tutorials and Panels for areas of
interest from Chemoinformatics, Bioinformatics, and Biocomputing.

Ovidiu Ivanciuc
University of Texas Medical Branch
E-mail: oiivanci^^^utmb.edu


Submission deadline: February 5, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in 
IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Details on manuscript preparation:
<a href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ManuscriptBIOTECHNO08.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ManuscriptBIOTECHNO08.html</a>

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized
journals.


BIOTECHNO Advisory Committee
<a href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ComBIOTECHNO08.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ComBIOTECHNO08.html</a>

Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas - Dallas, USA
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc.//Concordia University, USA/Canada
Nicolae Tapus, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest // IEEE Romania Chair,
Romania

BIOTECHNO 2008 Publicity Chairs

Debojyoti Dutta, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Andrea Pierleoni, University of Bologna, Italy

BIOTECHNO 2008 Technical Program Committee

Co-Chairs:
Werner Sandmann, University of Bamberg, Germany
Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul University, USA

Special Area Co-Chairs:

Debojyoti Dutta, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA [Bio-Chemical Informatics]
Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy, [Biocomputing]
Doina Caragea, Kansas State University, USA  [Bio-ontologies]
Ovidiu Ivanciuc, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA [Chemoinformatics]


Chemoinformatics
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- computer-aided drug design
- concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery
- virtual screening of chemical libraries
- machine learning and artificial intelligence in molecular design
- ADMET - absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity
- QSAR - quantitative structure-activity relationships
- protein-ligand docking and scoring functions
- chemical similarity and diversity
- chemogenomics in drug discovery
- QSPR - quantitative structure-property relationships
- systems biology and metabolic networks
- theoretical models in chemical reactivity
- mathematical chemistry and chemical graphs
- in silico environmental toxicology
- computer-assisted chemical engineering
- combinatorial chemistry
- graph theory in chemistry
- prediction of drug toxicity
- property prediction
- molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations
- modeling and measurements of solid-liquid and vapor-liquid equilibria
- blood-brain barrier penetration
- comparison of the similarity/diversity of chemo-data libraries
- chemoinformatics applications


Bioinformatics
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- Bioinformatics modeling
- Bioinformatics databases
- Genomics
- Biostatistics
- Structural and functional genomics
- Molecular sequence and structure databases
- Molecular interactions and structure predictions
- RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
- Gene regulation and expression databases
- Gene identification and pattern discovery
- Gene expression analysis
- Modeling and simulation of biomarkers
- Sequence analysis


Biocomputing
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- Computational biology
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical image computing and informatics
- Biomedical automation and control
- Image-based diagnosis and therapy
- Modeling and simulation of systems biology
- Applications of large-scale bio-systems


Bio-ontologies
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- Software environments for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and
  biomedical applications
- Medical informatics
- Epidemic models
- Biological data mining
- Biomedical knowledge discovery
- Pattern classification and recognition
- Mathematical biology
- Graph theory and bioinformatics
- Stochastic modeling
- Biological databases and information retrieval
- Processing mutation information
- Archiving of mutation specific information


Biomechanical devices
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- Biomaterials
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Biomedical metrology and certification
- Biomedical sensors
- Biomedical monitoring devices
- Biological data integration
- Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
- Biological data visualization
- Biometric screening techniques
- Biorobotics
- Biomedical devices with embedded computers
- Biocomputing and Biochips
- Synthetic Biological Systems</pre>
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