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The 2nd International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology (OSB 2008), organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai University and University of Tokyo will be held in Lijiang, China from October 31 to November 3, 2008. The symposium is sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).Systems Biology and Bioinformatics have become intensive research topics in the recent past decade and attracted great many leading scientists working in Biology, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science. Optimization, Statistics, and many other mathematical methods have been widely used in the field.
Following the successful OSB 2007, the purposes of OSB 2008 is to extend the international forum for scientists, researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange ideas and approaches, to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions in this interdisciplinary field, including optimization methods and its applications in biosciences and researches on various aspects of Systems Biology, such as integration of genome-wide microarray, proteomic, and metabolomic data, inference and comparison of biological networks, and model testing through design of experiments.
Themes of the OSB 2008 will be interdisciplinary by its nature and focus on bridging opportunities between Optimization and Systems Biology studies. We are particularly interested in submissions that report on theoretical, experimental and applied research motivated by systems biology problems. Theoretical and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of optimization algorithms discussed in a practical setting. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
Optimization Theory & Applications
Approximation Algorithms
Combinatorics
Neural Networks
Data Mining
Machine Learning
High Performance Computing
Information Theory and Statistical Analysis
Gene Regulatory Network
Protein Interaction Network
Protein Structures and Functions
Comparative Genomics
Microbial Community Analysis
Quantitative Models of Cellular and Multi-Cellular Systems
Designing and Modeling Synthetic Biological Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics and Analysis of Biological Systems
All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of their contributions. Original research papers are solicited in all aspects of Optimization, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Computational Biology, including but not limited to the above topics.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Operations Research (LNOR), and will be available at the conference. Papers of LNOR OSB 2008 will be submitted to ISI for ISTP index. The selected papers are going to be published on the special issue of IET Systems Biology and International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on OSB 2008.
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