5^th International Conference on
Algorithms for Computational Biology
AlCoB 2018
Hong Kong - June 25-26, 2018

Deadlines (all at 23:59 CET)

February 11, 2018	Paper submission
February 18, 2018	Extended paper submission
March 18, 2018	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
March 28, 2018	Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings
March 28, 2018	Early registration
May 18, 2018	Poster submission
May 25, 2018	Notification of poster acceptance or rejection
June 11, 2018	Late registration
September 27, 2018	Submission to the journal special issue
October 12, 2018	Extended 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 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2016 JCR impact factor: 1.955) 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.

CFP of AlCoB 2018

Acknowledgments

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, Trujillo (Spain) and Aveiro.

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.

Co-organized by:

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Department of Computing
• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
  Rovira i Virgili University (URV)

Venue

AlCoB 2018 will take place in Hong Kong, the city with the most skyscrapers in the world, one of the highest human development indexes, and the longest life expectancy. The venue will be:

M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong

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, mass spectrometry analysis
• Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
• Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
• Microbiome analysis
• Systems biology

Structure

AlCoB 2018 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 (all included) 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)

Registration