The proceedings will be available as volume LNBI 8542.
Information about it at http://www.springer.com/978-3-319-07952-3 or access the online version.

Organised by

• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University

Aims

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:

1. assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,
2. identifying gene structures in the genome,
3. recognizing regulatory motifs,
4. aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,
5. reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and
6. inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

Venue

AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus.

Scope

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

• Exact sequence analysis
• Approximate sequence analysis
• Pairwise sequence alignment
• Multiple sequence alignment
• Sequence assembly
• Genome rearrangement
• Regulatory motif finding
• Phylogeny reconstruction
• Phylogeny comparison
• Structure prediction
• Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
• Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis...
• Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics...
• Microbiome analysis
• Systems biology

Structure of the Conference

AlCoB 2014 will consist of

• invited talks
• invited tutorials
• peer-reviewed contributions

Submission

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014.

Registration

The registration form can be found here.

We kindly ask all the participants to register, including invited persons and members of the organising committee.

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