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InCoB 2017

The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics

September 20 to 22, 2017​
The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China
International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) is the annual conference of Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) that showcases the latest research and technologies in all areas of bioinformatics. Since 2002 (see where InCoB has been held previously), InCoB has been attended by practitioners from both biology fields and computing backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region, and also from other regions.

As in the past, accepted papers will be published in international, peer-reviewed journals, such as Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Genomics, BMC Systems Biology, and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB).


The theme for InCoB 2017 is: Big Data and Big Impact in Bioinformatics.
KEY TOPICS
Bioinformatics

Integration of algorithms 
Imaging informatics
Health informatics for understanding of complex biological and medical phenomena. 
Translational bioinformatics
Population genetics
Drug design and discovery
Biomarker identification
Systems biology
Biological sequence analysis
Biomedical text mining
Ontologies
Expression data analysis
Structural bioinformatics
Metabolism data analysis
Scalable data storage
​Conference Co-chairs
Jinyan Li, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Lan Ma, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China

Program Committee Co-chairs
Christian Schönbach, Kumamoto University, Japan
Siu-Ming Yiu, University of Hong Kong, China

Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Paul Horton, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan

Local Organization Chair
Yujiu Yang, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China

Publication Co-chairs
Christian Schönbach, Kumamoto University, Japan
Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia
Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, Perdana University, Malaysia

Publicity Co-chairs
Paul Horton, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Japan
Shaoliang Peng, College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China


Conference Honorary Chairs
Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Publication of Accepted Papers
  • Bioinformatics
  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • BMC Genomics
  • BMC Systems Biology
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • BMC Medical Genomics
  • Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • PeerJ

Keynote Speakers

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Saman Halgamuge
Research School of Engineering
​The Australian National University, Australia​
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Jianzhu Chen
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Alfonso Valencia
Department of Life Sciences,
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Spain
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Mindy Shi 
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
​ University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 
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Xiujie Wang 
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
​ Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
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Yong Hou 
BGI-research
​ BGI-Shenzhen, China
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Yuelong Shu 
School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University
​ WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza, China 
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Limsoon Wong 
School of Computing
National University of Singapore  

Conference Organizers

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The University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University
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Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet)

Conference Sponsors

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International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
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Precision Medicine Research Center, Taihe Hospital, Hubei, China
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School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, China
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The University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

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Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University
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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, China

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