[QSAR] BIOTECHNO 2008 || June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania|| The International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, andBiomedical Technologies]

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Subject: CfP: BIOTECHNO 2008 || June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest,
Romania|| The International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics,
andBiomedical Technologies From:    "IARIA Invitation"
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Date:    Sat, January 26, 2008 10:41 am
To:      kroy at pharma.jdvu.ac.in
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Invitation:

Please consider to contribute to and distribute to the appropriate groups
the following

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

BIOTECHNO 2008, The International Conference on Biocomputation,
Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies

June 29 - July 5, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania

Site:  http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/BIOTECHNO08.html

Committees: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ComBIOTECHNO08.html


Submission deadline: February 5, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE
Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized
journals.


BIOTECHNO 2008 Topics (details in the CfP on site):

Bio-ontologies

- Software environments for biocomputation, bioinformatics, and biomedical
applications

- Medical informatics

- Epidemic models

- Biological data mining

- Biomedical knowledge discovery

- Pattern classification and recognition

- Mathematical biology

- Graph theory and bioinformatics

- Stochastic modeling

- Biological databases and information retrieval

- Processing mutation information

- Archiving of mutation specific information

Biocomputing

- Computational biology

- Bioengineering

- Biomedical image computing and informatics

- Biomedical automation and control

- Image-based diagnosis and therapy

- Modeling and simulation of systems biology

- Applications of large-scale bio-systems

Bioinformatics

- Bioinformatics modeling

- Bioinformatics databases

- Genomics

- Biostatistics

- Structural and functional genomics

- Molecular sequence and structure databases

- Molecular interactions and structure predictions

- RNA and DNA structure and sequencing

- Gene regulation and expression databases

- Gene identification and pattern discovery

- Gene expression analysis

- Modeling and simulation of biomarkers

- Sequence analysis

Biomechanical devices

- Biomaterials

- Biomedical Instrumentation

- Biomedical metrology and certification

- Biomedical sensors

- Biomedical monitoring devices

- Biological data integration

- Image processing in medicine and biological sciences

- Biological data visualization

- Biometric screening techniques

- Biorobotics

- Biomedical devices with embedded computers

- Biocomputing and Biochips

- Synthetic Biological Systems

Chemoinformatics

- computer-aided drug design

- concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery

- virtual screening of chemical libraries

- machine learning and artificial intelligence in molecular design

- ADMET - absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity

- QSAR - quantitative structure-activity relationships

- protein-ligand docking and scoring functions

- chemical similarity and diversity

- chemogenomics in drug discovery

- QSPR - quantitative structure-property relationships

- systems biology and metabolic networks

- theoretical models in chemical reactivity

- mathematical chemistry and chemical graphs

- in silico environmental toxicology

- computer-assisted chemical engineering

- combinatorial chemistry

- graph theory in chemistry

- prediction of drug toxicity

- property prediction

- molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations

- modeling and measurements of solid-liquid and vapor-liquid equilibria

- blood-brain barrier penetration

- comparison of the similarity/diversity of chemo-data libraries

- chemoinformatics applications

==============BIOTECHNO Advisory Committee

Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas - Dallas, USA

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc.//Concordia University, USA/Canada

Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Nicolae Tapus, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest // IEEE Romania
Chair, Romania


BIOTECHNO 2008 Publicity Chairs

Debojyoti Dutta, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

Andrea Pierleoni, University of Bologna, Italy


BIOTECHNO 2008 Technical Program Committee

Chairs:

Werner Sandmann, University of Bamberg, Germany

Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul University, USA


Special Area Chairs:

Debojyoti Dutta, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA [Bio-Chemical Informatics]

Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy, [Biocomputing]

Doina Caragea, Kansas State University, USA  [Bio-ontologies]

Ovidiu Ivanciuc, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA [Chemoinformatics]

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-- 
Dr. Kunal Roy, MPharm, PhD, Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow (2007),
AICTE Career Awardee (2003-04), Recipient of DST Fast Track Scheme for
Young Scientists (2005), READER,
Drug Theoretics and Cheminformatics Lab,
Division of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata 700 032 (INDIA)
Email: kunalroy_in at yahoo.com, kroy at pharma.jdvu.ac.in
URL: http://www.geocities.com/kunalroy_in,
http://www.jadavpur.edu/admin1/pharma_faculty/KR.htm