Conferences

HISTORY

The symposium started in Colorado Springs in 2004. It was held previously at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs (2004, 2005 and 2007), at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (2006), at the University of Texas at Arlington (2008), and at University of Nabraska-Lincoln (2009). Started as a regional event, now the symposium has become national and international symposium attracting research papers and poster contributions from all over the United States and several foreign countries. Extended version of selected papers from the Symposium have been published in special issues of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA). Because of its true multidisciplinary orientation and the high quality of the presented work, interest in this symposium and its reputation have been steadily growing over the years.

OBJECTIVE

The Symposium's objective is to showcase the state of the art research and development activities in the area of genome sequencing and annotation, functional and computational genomics, and transcriptomics. The other areas of bioinformatics and biotechnology are also welcome. The Symposium brings together scientists in multiple disciplines such as computer scientists, engineers, and researchers from biotechnology, bioinformatics, and the medical research community, and promote future interdisciplinary activity and research in these areas. We encourage graduate and post doctoral students to submit their contributions either as complete papers or as poster presentations.

Each field that BIOT attracts has its own tradition. For example, in computer science, it is customary to require the submission of full papers for review several months prior to a conference or symposium. Conferences in other disciplines generally require that an abstract or extended abstract be submitted for review. The organizing committee of BIOT understands these differences, and the speakers will be invited from both accepted papers and abstracts. Accepted papers and abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings. Abstracts for poster presentation are also accepted. Extended version of selected papers from the Symposium will be published in special issues of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA).

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