About

5th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)

October 15-17, 2015, Sofitel Luxury Hotels, Miami, FL, USA

Advances in high-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences, resulting in the collection of unprecedented amounts of biological and medical data. Using this data to advance our knowledge about fundamental biological processes and improve human health requires novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms. IEEE ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and medical sciences.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Biological modeling and simulation, Biomedical image processing, Biomedical data and literature mining, Computational genetic epidemiology, Computational metabolomics, Computational proteomics, Databases and ontologies, Gene regulation, Genome analysis, Health Informatics, High-performance bio-computing, Immunoinformatics, Molecular evolution, Population genomics, Sequence analysis, Structural bioinformatics, Systems biology, Transcriptomics.

Two special issues of journals (BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics) on selected extended abstracts will be published. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support). This year we also plan to have review sessions where researchers get to present their results (possibly published in other venues). These results will not appear in the proceedings.

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2011's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2011/

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2012's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2012/

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2013's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2013/

Please follow this link to reach IEEE ICCABS 2014's website: http://www.iccabs.org/2014/

Committees

General Chairs

  • S.S. Iyengar - Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida.
  • Yi Pan - Georgia State Univeristy, Atlanta, GA.
  • S. Rajasekaran - Univeristy of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

Program Chairs

Finance Chairs

  • Reda A. Ammar - Univeristy of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
  • Mukul Bansal - Univeristy of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
  • Yufeng Wu - Univeristy of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

Publicity Chair

  • Bob Weiner - University of Connecticut

Proceedings Chair

  • Soumitra Pal - Univeristy of Connecticut

Local Arrangements Chair

  • Shu-Ching Chen - Florida International University

Webmaster

  • Soumitra Pal - Univeristy of Connecticut

Program Committee

Accepted Papers

  • Chunchun Zhao and Sartaj Sahni. Cache and Energy Efficient Alignment of Very Long Sequences
  • Amirhossein Jabalameli and Aman Behal. A Constrained Linear Approach to Identify a Multi-timescale Adaptive Threshold Neuronal Model
  • Eric C.H. Chen, Annie Morin, Jean-Hugues Chauchat and David Sankoff. Statistical analysis of fractionation resistance by functional category and expression
  • Nikita Alexeev and Max Alekseyev. Estimation of the True Evolutionary Distance under the Fragile Breakage Model
  • Shailesh Appukuttan, Rohan Sathe and Rohit Manchanda. Modular Approach to Modeling Homotypic and Heterotypic Gap Junctions
  • Cintia Palu, Leandra Linhares-Lacerda, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves and Wilson Savino. Genetic modulation during thymocyte development: an integrative approach based on microarray meta-analysis
  • Michael Coulombe, Kristian Stevens and Dan Gusfield. Construction, enumeration, and optimization of perfect phylogenies on multi-state data.
  • Trevor Cickovski, Eli Peake, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido and Giri Narasimhan. ATria: A Novel Centrality Algorithm Applied To Biological Networks
  • Sharma V. Thankachan, Sriram Chockalingam, Yongchao Liu, Ambujam Krishnan and Srinivas Aluru. A greedy alignment-free distance estimator for phylogenetic inference
  • Qiwen Hu, Catharina Merchante, Anna Stepanova, Jose Alonso and Steffen Heber. Mining Transcript Features Related to Translation in Arabidopsis Using LASSO and Random Forest
  • Zhichao Lian, Xiang Li, Yi Pan, Xuan Guo, Le Chen, Guantao Chen, Zhihui Wei, Tianming Liu and Jing Zhang. Dynamic Bayesian Brain Network Partition and Connectivity Change Point Detection
  • Dan He, Laxmi Parida and Oyetunji Enoch Ogundijo. Performance Evaluation of Different Encoding Strategies for Quantitative Genetic Trait Prediction
  • Lauren Assour and Scott Emrich. Global Maximum-Parsimony Based Ancestral Reconstruction with Non-Universal Genes
  • Ning Yu, Xuan Guo, Alexander Zelikovsky and Yi Pan. GaussianCpG: A Gaussian Model for Detection of Human CpG Island
  • Bogdan Armaselu, Harish Arunachalam, Ovidiu Daescu, John-Paul Bach, Kevin Cederberg, Dinesh Rakheja, Anita Sengupta, Stephen Shapek and Patrick Leavey. Whole Slide Images Stitching for Osteosarcoma Detection
  • Rahul Singh and Thomas Olson. Computational Prediction of ATC Codes of Drug-Like Compounds Using Tiered Learning
  • Neslisah Torosdagli, Sumanta Pattanaik, Faraz Hussain, Narsingh Deo, Sumit Kumar Jha and Chung-Che Jeff Chang. SANJAY: Synthesizing Visualizations of Flow Cytometry Data using Symbolic Decision Procedures
  • Da Zhang, Hao Wang, Kaixi Hou, Jing Zhang and Wu-Chun Feng. Accelerating InDel Detection on Modern Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture
  • Inna Rytsareva, David S Campo, Yueli Zheng, Seth Sims, Cansu Tetik, Jain Chirag, Sriram Chockalingam, Sharma Thankachan, Amanda Sue, Srinivas Aluru and Yury Khudyakov. Efficient Detection of Viral Transmission with Threshold-based methods
  • Ekaterina Nenastyeva, Yurij Ionov, Ion Mandoiu and Alex Zelikovsky. Identification of Cancer-Specific Motifs in Mimotope Profiles of Serum Antibody Repertoire
  • Pavel Skums, Olga Glebova, David Campo, Nana Li, Zoya Dimitrova, Seth Sims, Leonid Bunimovich, Alex Zelikovsky and Yury Khudyakov. Algorithms for Detection of Viral Transmissions using Analysis of Intra-Host Viral Populations
  • Hamid Ismail, Ahoi Jones, Jung Kim, Robert Newman and Dukka Kc. Phosphorylation site prediction using Random Forest
  • Yinjiao Ma, Lingling Zhang, Christian Geneus and Haijun Gong. Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis of Prostate Cancer

Program

To download the Program, please CLICK HERE.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF format by following the instructions at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs2015.

Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

(locally saved versions as on August 13, 2015: MS Word US Letter, MS Word A4, Latex)

and should not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of student travel awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).

Camera-ready Instructions

There is a page limit of 6 pages per submission. Extra pages will be charged at $100 per page.

The deadline for approving your PDF for collection on the PDF eXpress site and emailing the signed copyright form is

*** Tuesday, September 15, 2014 ***

Step-by-step instructions are as follows:
  1. Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX templates available at

    http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

    (locally saved versions as on August 13, 2015: MS Word US Letter, MS Word A4, Latex)


  2. The appropriate copyright clearance code notice must be added to the left bottom of the first page of the paper (in footer). Also, page numbers should be added to the center of the footer on all pages. The copyright notices are listed below. LateX commands needed to add the general copyright notice (c) and page numbers to the manuscript are included at the end of these instructions
    • For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is:
      U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
    • For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-4673-9963-9/15/$31.00 ©2015 Crown
    • For papers in which all authors are employed by a the European Union, the copyright notice is: 978-1-4673-9963-9/15/$31.00 ©2015 European Union
    • For all other papers the copyright notice is: 978-1-4673-9963-9/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE

  3. Create an account on IEEE PDF eXpress at

       http://www.pdf-express.org/

    using the conference ID 37499X.

  4. Use IEEE PDF eXpress to check your PDF.

  5. Once checked, submit the paper back to easychair (as a new version of your paper).

  6. Sign and send the attached IEEE copyright form. It is sufficient for one of the authors to sign the copyright form. Forms should be scanned into PDF or any other standard image format and emailed to mitra@uconn.edu.
Notes:
  • To add page numbers and the general copyright notice in a document prepared using LateX:

    - Add the following commands after the usepackage commands

    \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{lastpage} \pagestyle{plain} \lhead{} \lfoot{978-1-4673-9963-9/15/\$31.00 \copyright2015 IEEE} \cfoot{\thepage} \rhead{} \rfoot{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

    - Add the following commands between the "\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle" command and the first section start

    "\section{Introduction}" \setcounter{page}{1} \thispagestyle{fancy}
  • Keynotes Talks

    Confirmed Keynote Talks

    • Srinivas Aluru - Georgia Institute of Technology
    • S. Cenk Sahinalp - Simon Fraser University

    Invited Speakers

    • Ion Mandoiu - University of Connecticut
    • Sheida Nabavi - University of Connecticut
    • Giri Narasimhan - Florida International University

    Registration

    Registration to the conference has to be done through regonline. Conference Registration Fees:

      Conference Advance Registration
    • IEEE Members: $650
    • IEEE Non-members : $850
    • IEEE Student members: $350
    • IEEE Student non-members: $450
    • IEEE Life/Retired members: $250
      Conference Late / Onsite Registration
    • IEEE Members: $850
    • IEEE Non-members : $950
    • IEEE Student members: $450
    • IEEE Student non-members: $550
    • IEEE Life/Retired members: $450

    Workshop / Poster Paper Registration Fees:

    • IEEE Members (Full-Day): $400
    • IEEE Non-members (Full-Day): $500
    • IEEE Members (Half-Day): $400
    • IEEE Non-members (Half-Day): $500

    Please follow this link to register to the conference: https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=138

    Workshops and Special Session

      I) 5th Workshop on Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing (CANGS 2015)

             click here to download the call for participation

    Posters and Highlights

    Venue and Hotel Information

    ICCABS 2015 will take place in the Sofitel Luxury Hotels on October 15-17, 2015

    Sofitel Luxury Hotels

    5800 Blue Lagoon Drive, FL, USA 33126

    Phone: +1 (305) 264-4888

    The negotiated rate for conference attendees is $135.

    Sofitel Hotel is just minutes from the Miami International Airport and the hotel runs a free shuttle.

    Important information from the hotel:

    The code for the conference is FIU - ICCABS 2015.

    Each guest can call the hotel at 305-503-8384 or complete the ATTACHED FORM with their own reservation information and submit back to us so we may complete their reservations.

    Student Travel Awards

    ICCABS 2015 plans to support some number of student travel grants (conditional upon NSF support). In particular, this money can be used for the following items:

    • Registration fee
    • Hotel accommodation
    • Airfare
    • Food and other expenses

    The applicants should submit the following materials to Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (rajasek@engr.uconn.edu) before 09-21-2015 by 5PM EST. Preference will be given to students presenting their works in the conference (including the workshops)

    • Number and title of a paper or poster that has been accepted (if any) to ICCABS
    • A brief summary of the research interests of the student together with an explanation of how this conference will help her/his research efforts.
    • A support letter from the student's supervisor/advisor that indicates that the student is in good academic standing and how the student will benefit from attending this conference.
    • An estimate on the total expenses and availability of other sources of funding

    Applications from female and minority students are strongly encouraged.

    Contact Us

    General Chair contact information:

    Paper submission: August 15, 2015
    August 1, 2015
    July 1, 2015
     
    Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2015
    August 20, 2015
    August 1, 2015
     
    Author registration: September 15, 2015
    September 10, 2015
    August 30, 2015
    August 10, 2015
     
    Camera-ready papers due on: September 15, 2015
    September 10, 2015
    August 30, 2015
    August 20, 2015
    CLICK HERE to download the call for papers in PDF format

    Sponsors:



    If you would like to become a sponsor, please contact the conference's general chair through the 'Contact Us' tab on the left

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