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* CSBio 2010 - Call for Participation and Late-Breaking Abstracts *

CSBio 2010 : 1st International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics
Bangkok, Thailand, November 3-5, 2010
http://www.csbio.org/


You are cordially invited to participate in the inaugural International Conference on Computational-Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio 2010).

Online registration is currently open at: 
http://www.csbio.org/registration.php


TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

- Keynote talk by Michael Brudno (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Plenary talks by Nikhil Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea), Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey, UK), and David Ussery (DTU, Denmark)
- All tutorials and technical sessions are inclusive with a CSBio 2010 registration
- Open competition with prizes


TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

International Neural Network Society (INNS)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS)
IEEE Thailand
Thailand Chapter of ACM


Late-Breaking Extended Abstract Submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-page extended abstract that will be presented as either a poster or demonstration at CSBio 2010.  However, a short oral presentation may be possible in certain cases.  This abstract will not be published but relevant works may be invited to submit a full paper for consideration to a special journal issue from CSBio 2010.  

Please submit your abstract to csbio2010@sit.kmutt.ac.th by September 30, 2010 with a subject heading of "CSBio 2010 Late-Breaking Extended Abstract Submission".

Journal versions of selected papers from the conference will be invited to the following journals for consideration:

Algorithms for Molecular Biology (BioMed Central)
Memetic Computing (Springer) - "Modern Applications of Adaptive Computation in Bioinformatics"


Collocated Conference
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The 4th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT 2010 - www.iait-conf.org) will be collocated with The 1st International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio 2010) in Bangkok, Thailand.  IAIT 2010 features a keynote speech from Foong Sew Bun, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, on the theme of "Smarter Planet Initiatives".