Workshop on Computational Molecular Biology (WCMB 2009)

Starting from developing high yield crops to expressing disease resistant genes in species require tremendous amount of data processing -- that includes gene and protein data, nucleotide sequences, and biomedical literature. These kinds of data are either local to the organization or available in the Web and are doubling every 18 months. To extract new meaning out of this data, one has to process more and more data to extract knowledge out of it. This kind of processing not only requires supercomputers but also superdatabases distributed over the Web. This has opened doors for innovation in Lifesciences, and all layers of computing -- the infrastructure, middleware, database and applications. This Workshop on Computational Molecular Biology (WCMB) will bring together researchers from various disciplines to exchange ideas to address some of these challenges and probable solutions. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum where people from Lifesciences and Computing come together to exchange ideas and discuss different approaches and find solutions to solve the next generation data analysis problem.

Workshop Format

There will be presentation of original research work. This is based on submissions of papers addressing the use of computers, databases, and data networks in all domains of Lifesciences and Bioinformatics. There will also be few invited speakers from industry and research who will set the stage by presenting recent and future advancements in Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology.

Call for Papers

We would like to invite papers which deal with Bioinformatics data sets, Computer science, and Mathematical modeling. Computation papers should contain a concise description of the biological problem being solved, and Lifesciences papers should show how computation or analysis improves the results. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: