Overview
- Latest research on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
- Results of the 6th International Conference on Practical
- Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
- PACBB held on 28-30th March 2012 in Salamanca, Spain
- Written by leading experts in the field
Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AINSC, volume 154)
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The growth in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology fields over the last few years has been remarkable and the trend is to increase its pace. In fact, the need for computational techniques that can efficiently handle the huge amounts of data produced by the new experimental techniques in Biology is still increasing driven by new advances in Next Generation Sequencing, several types of the so called omics data and image acquisition, just to name a few. The analysis of the datasets that produces and its integration call for new algorithms and approaches from fields such as Databases, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Within this scenario of increasing data availability, Systems Biology has also been emerging as an alternative to the reductionist view that dominated biological research in the last decades. Indeed, Biology is more and more a science of information requiring tools from the computational sciences. In the last few years, we have seen the surge of a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists that have a strong background in the biological and computational sciences. In this context, the interaction of researchers from different scientific fields is, more than ever, of foremost importance boosting the research efforts in the field and contributing to the education of a new generation of Bioinformatics scientists. PACBB‘12 hopes to contribute to this effort promoting this fruitful interaction. PACBB'12 technical program included 32 papers from a submission pool of 61 papers spanning many different sub-fields in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Therefore, the conference will certainly have promoted the interaction of scientists from diverse research groups and with a distinct background (computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists). The scientific content will certainly be challenging andwill promote the improvement of the work that is being developed by each of the participants.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 6th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Editors: Miguel P. Rocha, Nicholas Luscombe, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez
Series Title: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28839-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28838-8Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28839-5Published: 05 March 2012
Series ISSN: 1867-5662
Series E-ISSN: 1867-5670
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 286
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics