ISB 2013

Theme and Scope

The 7th International Conference on Systems Biology (ISB 2013), organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hunan University will be held in Huangshan, China, August 23-25, 2013. The conference is sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences of CAS (AMSS), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of CAS (SIBS), Hunan University, Computational Systems Biology Society of ORSC, Systems Biology Technical Committee of IEEE SMC Society, and IET.

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 ISB conferences series from 2007, the purpose of ISB 2013 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 mathematical 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.

The purpose of ISB 2013 is to provide an international forum for scientists, researchers to exchange ideas and approaches, including theoretical methodology development and its applications in biosciences and researches on various aspects of Computational Systems Biology. Themes of the ISB 2013 will be interdisciplinary by its nature and focus on bridging opportunities between mathematical methods and Systems Biology studies. We are particularly interested in submissions that report on theoretical, experimental and applied research motivated by systems biology problems. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Gene Regulatory Networks
Protein Interaction Networks
Metabolic Networks
Signaling Networks
Comparative Genomics
Functional Genomics
Metagenomics
Genome-Wide Association Study
Promoter Analysis and Discovery
Biomarker Identification and Drug Discovery
Evolution and Phylogenetics
Non-coding RNAs
Proteomics
Protein Structures and Functions
Microbial Community Analysis
Qualitative Analysis of Biological Systems
Quantitative Models of Cellular and Multi-Cellular Systems
Designing and Modeling Synthetic Biological Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics and Analysis of Biological Systems
Designing Synthetic Biological Circuits
High Performance Computing for Biological Data Analysis
Data Mining and Machine Learning for Biological Data
Information Theory and Statistical Analysis
Systems Biology of Cancer and Metastasis
Brain Systems Biology
Systems Neuro-Informatics
Systems Biology of Development

Committees

General Chairs

Luonan Chen	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiang-Sun Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Chairs

Dong Xu	University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Raul Rabadan	Columbia University, USA

Publication Chairs

Ling-Yun Wu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yong Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Highlight Track Chairs

Shihua Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Junwen John Wang	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Organizing Committee Chairs

Degang Liu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xing-Ming Zhao	Shanghai University, China
Bo Liao	Hunan University, China

Proceeding Papers and Contributing Authors

Twenty-five papers selected for special issues of journals and twenty-nine full papers in the proceedings cover wide range of computational systems biology. Authors of these papers come from China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Germany, Egypt, United Kingdom, United States. Many active researchers in various areas contributed their overview and introduction in their fields besides specific deep research achievements.