The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB-2024) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA between 18–19 March 2024. BICOB-2024, initiated in 2009, is one of the most established and well-known bioinformatics and computational biology conferences. The conference is dedicated to providing a vibrant atmosphere and venue for bioinformatics and computational biology scientists to connect, present and publish their research results, investigations, and studies. BICOB-2024 includes a Best Paper Award to be presented during the conference banquet. The topics of interest include (and are not limited to):

Genome analysis: Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics and metagenomics, genome and chromosome annotation, gene finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative genomics.  Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and clustering, next generation sequencing NGS, function prediction, motif discovery, functional site recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.  Phylogenetics: Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution, comparative biological methods, population genetics.  Structural Bioinformatics: Structure matching, prediction, analysis and comparison; docking methods; protein design.  Analysis of high-throughput biological data: Microarrays (nucleic acid, protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS, proteomics, mass spectrometry. Also, query languages, interoperability, bio-ontology and bio-data mining.  Genetics and population analysis: Linkage analysis, association analysis, population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype calling.  Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale modeling, pathways, gene networks, transcriptomics - microarray data analysis, proteomics, epigenomics.  Healthcare Informatics: Healthcare data acquisition, analysis and mining. Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information systems.   Computational Proteomics: Filtering and indexing sequence databases, Peptide quantification and identification, Genome annotations via mass spectrometry, Identification of post-translational modifications, Structural genomics via mass spectrometry, Protein-protein interactions, Computational approaches to the analysis of large scale Mass spectrometry data, Exploration and visualization of proteomic data, Data models and integration for proteomics and genomics, Querying and retrieval of proteomics and genomics data, ...etc.All areas of computational and data-driven techniques with impact on life sciences are welcome, including big data, high-performance computing, GWAS, multi-omics studies; and emerging topics like Covid-19, Sars-Cov-2, and the related topics.

Publication and Indexing: Accepted papers in BICOB-2024 will be published (full text online) in EasyChair (EPiC series) and will be indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar, EI, and INSPEC, and submitted to DBLP for indexing. Papers will also be online at www.searchDL.org.

Journal Publication: Authors of selected papers in BICOB-2024 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.  

List of Topics: details: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/bicob24/ 

Committees

Program Committee

• please see: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/bicob24/ 

Organizing committee

• see: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/bicob24/

Publication

BICOB-2024 proceedings will be published by EasyChair {EPic Series, full text online; details in: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/bicob24/}

Venue

The conference will be held in New Orleans (USA).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: Tamer Aldwairi (Temple Univ., USA +1-662-313-8462 Aldwairi@temple.edu ).

Oliver Eulenstein (Iowa State Univ., USA +1 (515) 294-2407, oeulenst@iastate.edu )

Hisham Al-Mubaid (Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake, USA +1 (281) 283-3802, Hisham@uhcl.edu )