Wednesday, 18 March 2009

4th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

Place : Sheffield, UK
Dates: 7-9 September 2009

Scope

The International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) sponsored conference aims to bring together top researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in the life sciences. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the research areas of interest to the workshop. These include:
Bio-sequence analysis
Gene and protein expression analysis
Protein structure and interaction prediction
Motifs and signal detection
Metabolic modelling and analysis
Systems and synthetic biology
Pathway and network analysis
Immuno- and chemo-informatics
Evolution and phylogeny
Biological databases, integration and visualisation
Bio-imaging

Pattern recognition techniques of interest include, but not limited to:
Static, syntactic and structural pattern recognition
Data mining, Data based modelling
Neural networks, Fuzzy systems
Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence
Hidden Markov models, Graphical models

Keynote Speakers

Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine)
Alvis Brazma (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)
Gunnar Rätsch (Max Plank Institute, Tübingen)

Deadlines

Paper Submission: 1 April 2009
Special Sessions Proposal: 1 April 2009
Author Notification: 15 May 2009
Camera Ready Papers: 1 July 2009
Early Bird Registration: 15 July 2009

Publication Accepted papers will be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Enhanced versions of selected special papers will be included in a special issue in the International Journal of Systems Science.

Sponsors

The sponsoring organisations for PRIB 2009 conference are IAPR, Pascal2, and the University of Sheffield.

Paper Submission

Instructions for Authors
The maximum number of pages is twelve (12), in Springer LNCS format.
The Springer's templates can be found at the following address: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
Please follow the Springer's default author instructions when preparing the manuscript.

The paper submission for PRIB 2009 is now open.
Full text papers will be accepted only in pdf format. Also, please follow the guidelines in the 'Instructions for Authors' page.

The submission system is hosted by EasyChair. To submit papers to the conference, please follow this link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prib2009

Please note that the authors need to register to EasyChair prior the submission. The deadline for submitting papers to the conference is April 1.

Registration

The registration fees for the PRIB 2009 Conference are:

Full : £ 375 (Early), £ 425 (Late)

Student : £ 325 (Early), £ 375 (Late)

The deadline for early registration is 15 July

Fellowships may be available for students or for authors whose paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the PRIB 2009 Conference.

ACCOMODATION

You may create a reservation by clicking on this direct link: https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/YSTPRIB09

Alternatively, it is possible to create new or amend existing reservations at: https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk by entering the following event code: YSTPRIB09
This service is provided by: Yorkshire South Tourism
Telephone Number: 0114 201 1024
Reservation Deadline: 27 August 2009

For additional information, contact:

PRIB 2009
Secretariat,
Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering,
The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 114 2225618 Fax: +44 114 2225661
prib2009@sheffield.ac.uk

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