***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017), Shenzhen, China, 20-22, September, 2017

Conference website:	http://datamining-web.it.uts.edu.au/bioinformatics
Submission link (poster submissions open):	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2017

The Program Committee of the 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017) warmly invites manuscript submissions from all areas of bioinformatics research. The research work are required to be significant, original, and previously unpublished. All papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in international, peer-reviewed journals, such as Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Genomics, BMC Systems Biology, or IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB). Double-submission is not permitted by InCoB 2017.

We look forward to a lively set of speakers at the conference. Therefore, for all accepted papers, at least one author is expected to register for and attend the conference to present their work. Conversely, a single speaker will not be able to give multiple talks at the conference. So before submitting a paper, please coordinate with your co-authors on this issue.

InCoB is the annual conference of Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) that showcases the latest research and technologies in all areas of bioinformatics. The theme for InCoB 2017 is: Big Data and Big Impact in Bioinformatics. Key topics will include integration of algorithms, bioinformatics, imaging informatics and health informatics for understanding of complex biological and medical phenomena. Other relevant topics cover 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 and scalable data storage.

** CONFERENCE VENUE **
The conference will be held at The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China.

** IMPORTANT DATES **
Paper submission: April 28, 2017 (extended from March 15, 2017)
Acceptance notification: June, 2017

** CONFERENCE COMMITTEES **

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
bShoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia

Publicity Co-chair
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.

** CONFERENCE CONTACTS **
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]. Telephone: +612 95149264