[BiO BB] Call for Papers: International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT) 2007

[Tolga Can]

HIBIT'07

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
HEALTH INFORMATICS AND BIOINFORMATICS

Belek, Antalya, TURKEY
April 30 - May 2, 2007

http://hibit.ii.metu.edu.tr/07/index.html 

Aim of the HIBIT’07 is to bring together academicians from medical, life
sciences and IT fields with industry and government for creating synergy and
supporting interdisciplinary research and development. It is the second
HIBIT conference, with expected participation from all around the world, as
in the first one. High Quality Research Submissions are invited for
technical papers describing original unpublished results of theoretical,
empirical, conceptual, and experimental work. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

HEALTH INFORMATICS
Electronics Health Records and Standards, Clinical Informatics and Hospital
Information Systems, Telemedicine and Mobile Applications, Decision Support
Systems and Computer Aided Diagnosis, Health Informatics (HI) Education,
Security, Ethics and Privacy, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in HI,
Medical Signal/Image Analysis and Visualization, Medical Imaging and
Instrumentation, Virtual Reality and Simulation in HI, Medical Transaction
Provision Systems

BIOINFORMATICS
Biomolecular Sequence Analysis, Comparative Genomics, Biomedical Genome
Research, Microarray Informatics, Protein Expression and Modification,
Protein Interactions, Protein Structure Prediction, Biomedical Proteome
Research, Genetic Networks, Systems Biology, Text mining and Information
Extraction, Evolution and Phylogeny, Structural Bioinformatics

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Nese Yalabik, METU  (yalabik at ceng.metu.edu.tr)

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Nazife Baykal, METU
Tolga Can, METU
Mesude Iscan, METU
Erkan Mumcuoglu, METU  

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
L. Efe Akman, METU
Seref Arikan, Datasel
Volkan Atalay, METU
Ceren Caner Berkman, METU
Didem Gökcay, METU
Oya Deniz Kocgil, METU
Ismail Öztürk, METU
Ömer Sinan Sarac, METU
Inci Togan, METU 

ADVISORY BOARD
Nihat Akpinar, Ministry of Health, 
Turkey Ersan Akyildiz, METU 
Rengül Atalay, Bilkent U. 
Songül Dogan, Ministry of Health, TurkMIA 
Aydan Erkmen, METU 
Hakan Örer, Hacettepe U. 
Nazmi Özer, Hacettepe U. 
Mustafa Özmen, TurkMIA, Hacettepe U. 
Zeki Sagay, MNG Bilgisayar Corp. 
Osman Saka, TurkMIA, Akdeniz U. 
Ugur Sezerman, Sabanci U. 
Azmi Telefoncu, Ege U. 
G. Wilhelm Weber, METU 

SUBMISSION
Papers will be selected on the basis of originality, significance and
clarity. Length of submitted full papers is limited to 8 pages. Proceedings
will be published before the symposium. Posters reporting on recent research
(both theoretical and experimental) are also sought. Abstracts of accepted
posters will also be published in the symposium proceedings. 

A number of tutorials will be given by distinguished Lecturers. 

CONFERENCE INFORMATION
will be available at at the homepage
http://hibit.ii.metu.edu.tr/07/index.html, which has been designed to be a
living document offering up-to-date news on all conference events,
submission instructions and deadlines, hotel information, registration,
tourist information, travel, etc..  The continuously updated web pages will
help you plan your involvement in the conference.  

We encourage you to leave your own mark on this important event.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission         December 1, 2006
Author notification for full papers        February 1, 2007
Poster abstract submission         February 10, 2007
Author notification for posters         February 20, 2007
Camera ready deadline         March 1, 2007

The organizers are looking forward to welcoming you to hospitable Turkey!