Example topics: Sig nal processing and statistical approaches for functional genomics Computational biology Computational genomics

and epigenomics Personal Sequencing Discovery of molecular signatures and biomarkers Gene and protein sequence analysis Analysis of microarray and mass spectrometry data Denoising and compression of genomic data Regulatory network modeling, simulation, and inference Pathways and regulatory genomic networks Dynamic modeling of gene networks Genomic data mining and patte rn recognition Cellular modeling and metabolism Meta analysis of high throughput molecular studies Integrated analysis of diverse high throughput data Molecular dynamics and simulation Novel assembly and alignment methods Reverse engineering assessme nts and methods Genome comparisons and summarization Molecular structure and interaction Modeling in synthetic biology Molecular evolution and phylogeny Microarrays Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions Molecular sequence classifi cation, alignment and assembly Molecular sequence and structure databases Computational Systems Biology Gene regulation Gene pattern discovery and identification Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases Genetic network modeling and inferen ce Comparative genomics Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences RNA and DNA structure and sequencing Biomedical engineering Combinatorics and bioinformatics Biological data mining and knowledge discovery Biological databases and information retrie val Bio ontologies + semantics Biological data integration and visualization Image processing in medicine and biological sciences Pattern classification and recognition Sequence analysis and alignment Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research Tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics Protein modeling

Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition Metabolic modeling and pathways Evolution and phylogenetics Macr omolecular structure prediction Medical informatics Epidemic models Structural and functional genomics Stochastic modeling Cheminformatics Computational drug discovery Experimental medicine and analysis tools. Cancer informatics Graph theory and c omputational biology Application of computational intelligence in drug design High performance computing and applications in biology Computer based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...) Other aspects & applications relating to technological adv ancements in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.