BSB2008 will have two tracks:

• computational biology and bioinformatics

• multiagent systems applications on computational biology and bioinformatics

BSB 2008 aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial researchers, both in computer science, mathematics and statistics as well as in life sciences (molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, medicine, microbiology and others).

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching

• Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining

•  Biomedical Text Mining

•  Structural and Functional Genomics

•  Comparative Genomics

•  Protein Structure and Modeling

•  Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression

•  Gene and Molecular Networks

•  Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

•  Computational Systems Biology

•  Computational Proteomics

•  Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences

•  Algorithms for problems in computational biology

•  Applications on molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology and others.

This year BSB will have a special track on agent technologies and multiagent systems in computational biology and bioinformatics.

Applications on distributed information gathering, distributed annotation systems, and other uses of autonomous agents and multiagent systems are welcome. 

Topics include but are not limited to:

•  Integration of the biological data models

• Data gathering and query processing biological database

• Integration of distributed systems for comparative genomics and proteomics

• Distributed annotation

•  Negotiation of conflicting funtion prediction

• Agents in system biology