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                      **** EVOBIO 2009 ****
                      Seventh European Conference on 
Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics  
                    15-17 April 2009, Tübingen, Germany
                http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoBIO/EvoBIO.html

The European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in 
Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working 
in Bioinformatics that apply advanced techniques coming from Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, 
and Data Mining  to address important problems in molecular biology, proteomics, 
genomics and genetics. 

The primary focus of the conference is to present the latest advances of
these approaches for Bioinformatics and to provide a forum for the discussion of new research directions.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

* biomarker discovery
* cell simulation and modelling 
* ecological modelling
* fluxomics
* gene networks
* high-throughput biotechnology 
* metabolomics
* microarray analysis
* phylogeny 
* protein interaction
* proteomics 
* sequence analysis and alignment
* biological networks analysis
* systems biology

EvoBIO started in 2002 as workshop organized by the EvoNet (European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary
Computation) working group on bioinformatics, and has been held annually since then.

The conference will be held in conjunction with the EuroGP (12th European Conference 
on Genetic Programming), EvoCOP 2009 (9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in 
Combinatorial Optimisation) and EvoWorkshops 2009,
the specialist workshops on a range of evolutionary computation 
topics and applications (http://www.evostar.org).


__Submissions__

Submit your  manuscript, at  most 12 A4  pages long, in  Springer LNCS
format using  the  online  submission  service  no  later  than  November  5,
2008. The papers will be peer reviewed  by at least three members of the
program committee. 

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of  the reviewers' comments. The accepted papers  will appear in the
conference proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be
available at the conference. 

The accepted papers of the previous editions 
of EvoBIO were published in the Springer Verlag LNCS 2611, 3005, 3449, 
3449, 3449, 3907, 4447, 4973 respectively.

Each accepted paper will be presented orally or as a poster at the conference. 

The authors of papers which receive the best reviews will be nominated
for the 'Best paper Award'.

__Important dates__

* Submission deadline:         5     November  2008
* Conference:                  15-17 April     2009

Chairs

Program Chairs
Clara Pizzuti, ICAR, National Research Council of Italy, Italy - pizzuti(at)icar.cnr.it
Marylyn Ritchie, Vanderbilt University, USA - ritchie(at)chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu

Publicity Chair
Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR, National Research Council of Italy, Italy - ivanoe.defalco(at)na.icar.cnr.it

Evo* Local Chair
Marc Ebner, Universität Tübingen,Germany - ebner(at)wsii.uni-tuebingen.de

Evo* Coordinator and Administrative Contact
Jennifer Willies, The Centre for Informatics Research, Napier University, Scotland, UK. - j.willies(at)napier.ac.uk

__Contacts__  

For any information please contact the EvoBIO program chairs at 
pizzuti(at)icar.cnr.it, ritchie(at)chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu