4^th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology,
AlCoB 2017
Aveiro, Portugal, June 5-6, 2017

Deadlines (all at 23:59 CET)

January 22, 2017	Paper submission
January 29, 2017	Extended paper submission
February 25, 2017 February 28, 2017	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
March 9, 2017	Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings
March 9, 2017	Early registration
April 28, 2017	Poster submission
May 5, 2017	Notification of poster acceptance or rejection
May 22, 2017	Late registration
September 21, 2017	Submission to the journal special issue

Publications

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
Time-limited free online access. Volume will be available from May 28, 2017 to June 28th, 2017: Link A (http) Link B (https)

CFP of AlCoB 2017

Acknowledgments

Universidad de Aveiro

CIDMA

IEETA

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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.

Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo.

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.

Organised by

• Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA). University of Aveiro.
• Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA). University of Aveiro.
• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University (URV)

Venue

AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be the Department of Mathematics of the University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro.

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
• Compressive genomics
• 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

AlCoB 2017 will consist of:

• invited lectures
• peer-reviewed contributions
• posters

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, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017.

Registration