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OSB 2008
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Theme and Scope
The 2nd International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology (OSB 2008),
organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai University and University of Tokyo
will be held in Lijiang, China from October 31 to November 3, 2008. The symposium is
sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
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 OSB 2007,
the purposes of OSB 2008 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 optimization
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.
Themes of the OSB 2008 will be interdisciplinary by its nature and focus on bridging
opportunities between Optimization and Systems Biology studies. We are particularly
interested in submissions that report on theoretical, experimental and applied research
motivated by systems biology problems. Theoretical and applied papers are expected to
show convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of optimization algorithms discussed in
a practical setting. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
- Optimization Theory & Applications
- Approximation Algorithms
- Combinatorics
- Neural Networks
- Data Mining
- Machine Learning
- High Performance Computing
- Information Theory and Statistical Analysis
- Gene Regulatory Network
- Protein Interaction Network
- Protein Structures and Functions
- Comparative Genomics
- Microbial Community Analysis
- Quantitative Models of Cellular & Multi-Cellular Systems
- Designing and Modeling Synthetic Biological Systems
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Analysis of Biological Systems
Program Committee
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| Kazuyuki Aihara |
University of Tokyo and ERATO, JST, Japan (Co-Chairs) |
| Luonan Chen |
Shanghai University, China (Co-Chairs) |
| Xiang-Sun Zhang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Co-Chairs) |
| Tatsuya Akutsu |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| William R. Atchley |
North Carolina State University, USA |
| Xiuli Chao |
North Carolina State University, USA |
| Runsheng Chen |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Kwang-Hyun Cho |
Seoul National University, Korea |
| Ali Cinar |
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA |
| Naiyang Deng |
China Agricultural University, China |
| Andreas Dress |
CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, China |
| Ding-Zhu Du |
University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Shu-Cherng Fang |
North Carolina State University, USA |
| Susumu Goto |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| De-Shuang Huang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Jenn-Kang Hwang |
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| Christopher Lee |
University of California at Los Angeles, USA |
| Doheon Lee |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea |
| Guojun Li |
Shandong University, China |
| Jie Liang |
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Haiyan Liu |
University of Science and Technology of China, China |
| Jun Liu |
Harvard University, USA |
| Zengrong Liu |
Shanghai University, China |
| Hiroshi Mamitsuka |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| Kenji Mizuguchi |
National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Japan |
| Haruki Nakamura |
Osaka University, Japan |
| Yi Pan |
Georgia State University, USA |
| Yonghong Peng |
University of Bradford, UK |
| Stephen Wong |
Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Jiarui Wu |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Yu Xia |
Boston University, USA |
| Dong Xu |
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA |
| Yaoqi Zhou |
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
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Proceeding Papers and Contributing Authors
In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Optimization and Systems
Biology (OSB 2008), the papers are indexed by ISTP (Index to Scientific & Technical
Proceedings).
Fifty full papers in this volume cover wide range of optimization and systems biology.
Authors of these papers come from United States, China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Japan, Korea, and Poland. Many active researchers in various areas contributed their
overview and introduction in their fields besides specific deep research achievements.
During the symposium, focusing sessions are organized such as in optimization, systems
biology, bioinformatics, feature selection and extraction, networks in cellular systems,
dynamic of molecular networks, support vector machine, computational models and algorithms.
OSB 2008 is held in Lijiang, the most famous old city of ethnic minorities with brilliant
culture. We hope all the participants will enjoy very much not only the academic
exchange, but also the beautiful trip of Lijiang.
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