Jornadas Bioinformatica 2010 Málaga.

The Xth Spanish Symposium on Bioinformatics (JBI2010) will take place in October 27-29, 2010 in Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain. Co-organised by the National Institute of Bioinformatics-Spain and the Portuguese Bioinformatics Network and hosted by the University of Malaga (Spain).

This year, the reference topic is “Bioinformatics for personalized medicine” for which the conference will provide the opportunity to discuss the state of the art for the integration of the fields of biology, medicine and informatics. We invite you to submit your work and share your experiences in the following topics of interest including, but not limited to:

- Analysis of high throughput data (NGS)

- Structural Bioinformatics

- Algorithms for computational biology and HPC

- Sequence analysis, phylogenetics and evolution

- Databases, Tools and technologies for computational biology

- Bioinformatics in Transcriptomics and Proteomics

- System and Synthetic Biology
http://www.bitlab-es.com/jbi2010/

Jornadas de Bioinformatica 2010 (www.jbi2010.es )
Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, España (October 27 - 29, 2010)

**** CALL FOR ORAL AND POSTERS ****

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committees, we are pleased to
invite you to participate in the "X Jornadas de Bioinformática" to be
held in Málaga from 27th to 29th October 2010, organized by the Spanish
National Bioinformatics Institute in collaboration with the Portuguese
Bioinformatics Network and hosted by the University of Malaga (Spain).

The aim is to provide a forum to present and discuss the lines of
research and development of national and international groups working on
Bioinformatics.

This year the conference will dedicate special attention to the area of
"Bioinformatics for personalized medicine"

The Program Committee seeks contributions in the following areas (not
limited to):
* Analysis of high throughput data (NGS)
* Structural Bioinformatics
* Algorithms for computational biology and HPC
* Sequence analysis, phylogenetics and evolution
* Databases, Tools and technologies for computational biology
* Bioinformatics in Transcriptomics and Proteomics
* System and Synthetic Biology

Together with a number of invited talks, this edition will also hold the
'Highlights session' where selected papers published in the previous
year will be presented.

All communications will be in English.

Submissions of papers and communications will not exceed 1 page for
abstracts or 4 pages for papers. Both oral and poster submissions are
accepted. Posters will be displayed during the meeting and a number of
papers will be selected for oral presentation in the meeting. Extended
version of selected papers will be invited to be
evaluated for publication in a journal after the meeting. All
submissions will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Submissions for the highlight session must include a short abstract
describing the main interest of the paper, the PDF of the published
paper and the author that will present the work.

Submission instructions and templates will be available at the website
of the conference: http://www.jbi2010.es

IMPORTANT DATES
* Deadline for submission of papers and highlight proposals: 5th September
* Notification of acceptance: 21st September
* Deadline for submission of final paper: 28th September
* Early Registration deadline: 30th September

**** CALL FOR ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE TUTORIALS ****

JBI 2010 will feature a series of tutorials the 27th October.
Proposals for tutorials, covering a specific theme (NGS, Personalized
Medicine, Web Technologies etc.) and lasting about half a day are
encouraged and solicited until September 5th, 2010.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Workshop and tutorial submission deadline: 5th September
* Workshop and tutorial acceptance notification: 19th September