ISB/TBC 2014

ISB 2014

Theme and Scope

The 8th International Conference on Systems Biology (ISB 2014), organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qingdao University was co-held with and the 4th Translational Bioinformatics Conference (TBC 2014), in Qingdao, China, October 24--27, 2014. 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), Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of CAS (QIBEBT), Qingdao University, Computational Systems Biology Society of ORSC, Functional Genome Informaics and Systems Biology Society of CSCB, Systems Biology Technical Committee of IEEE SMC Society, Korean Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (KSBSB), The Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI), Korean Genome Organization (KOGO).

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/TBC 2014 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/TBC 2014 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 and Translational Bioinformatics. Themes of the ISB/TBC 2014 will be interdisciplinary by its nature and focus on bridging opportunities between mathematical methods and Systems Biology/Translational Bioinformtics studies. We are particularly interested in submissions that report on theoretical, experimental and applied research motivated by systems biology and translational bioinformatics 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
Next Generation Sequencing for Personal Genomics, Cancer Genomics and Metagenomics
Rare and common variants of human genome
Epigenomics, non-coding RNAs, and DNA methylation analyses
Genome-Phenome-Envirome Network Analysis
Microarray analysis and functional genomics for disease
Biomarkers, Drug Discovery and Pharmacogenomics
Biomedical Text/Data Mining and Visualization
Network Biology/Medicine and Pathway/Regulation Analysis
Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Informatics, and Health Record
Semantic Biology/Medicine and Biomedical Ontologies

Committees

General Chairs

Luonan Chen	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiang-Sun Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ju Han Kim	Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea

Program Committee Chairs

Yaping Tian	The Chinese PLA General Hospital, China
Sun Kim	Seoul National University, Korea
Bruce Ling	Stanford 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

Degang Liu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ling-Yun Wu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yong Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xing-Ming Zhao	Shanghai University, China
Zhiping Liu	Shandong University, China
Fengjing Shao	Qingdao University, China
Kang Ning	Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of CAS, China

Proceeding Papers and Contributing Authors

Forty-three papers selected for special issues of journals and forty full papers in this volume cover wide range of computational systems biology. Authors of these papers come from China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, Czech, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Pakistan, Thailand, United Kingdom, and United States. Many active researchers in various areas contributed their overview and introduction in their fields besides specific deep research achievements.