ALBIO’08

The Algorithms in Molecular Biology (ALBIO’08) Workshop will take place in Technical University of Vienna, Austria, on July 7-9, 2008. It will be held in parallel with the Second International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD’08, http://www.birdconf.org), organized by Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (Tunisia).

Important Dates
  Submission of Full Papers: March 1, 2008
  Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2008
  Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008

Computational Molecular Biology has emerged from the Human Genome Project as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The exponential growth of the size of biological databases, the complexity of biological problems and the necessity to deal with errors in biological sequences, result in time efficiency and memory requirements. The development of fast, low memory requirements and high-performances algorithm s is thus increasingly important in Computational Molecular Biology.

We are interested in papers that deal with algorithms that solve fundamental and/or applied problems in Molecular Biology, that are computationally efficient, that have been implemented and experimented on simulated and/or on real biological sequences, and that provide interesting new results. The submitted papers should present recent research results and identify and explore directions for future research.

Topics of interest include, among others:
  strings processing,
  biological sequences comparison,
  structures prediction,
  phylogeny reconstruction,
  DNA sequences assembly, clustering, and mapping,
  molecular evolution,
  genes prediction/recognition,
  genes expression
  haplotyping
  genomes rearrangement
  strings barecoding

You are invited to submit a draft paper in PDF format, up to 10 pages including figures and references, before March 1, 2008 to the Workshop Chair: Dr. Mourad Elloumi (Mourad.Elloumi [at] fsegt.rnu.tn or Mourad12345678 [at] yahoo.com) All accepted papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics" (LNBI, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html by Springer).