The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten

The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications&#046; ISBRA is the successor of the International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA), held on May 22&#8211;25, 2005 in Atlanta, GA and on May 28&#8211;31, 2006 in Reading, UK in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science &#046; The two editions of IWBRA have enjoyed a great success, with special issues of Springer LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics being devoted to full versions of selected papers&#046; The proceedings of ISBRA 2007 will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series, and it is anticipated that a special issue of a major bioinformatics journal will be devoted to expanded versions of the best symposium papers&#046;<br><b>Keywords:</b> Biomedical image processing<br>Bio&#8211;ontology and data mining<br>Computational genetics<br>Comparative genomics<br>Databases and data integration<br>Gene expression and microarrays<br>Gene identification and annotation<br>Immunoinformatics<br>Molecular evolution and phylogeny<br>Molecular modeling and simulation<br>Parallel bioinformatics algorithms<br>Pathways and systems biology<br>Protein structure prediction<br>Sequence analysis<br>