We received 136 paper submissions and 14 poster submissions. The acceptance rate for regular papers is 28%. In addition to 37 regular papers, 30 manuscripts have been accepted as short papers and 29 submissions will be presented as posters.

Accepted Posters

• "Efficient Feature Selection based on Genetic Algorithm for Classification of Pre-miRNAs", Ping Xuan
• "Coupling Between Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans and FGF-2 Receptors is Key to FGF-2 Capture under Flow: A Computational Study ", Changjiang Zhang, Kimberly Forsten-Williams, Bing Zhao,Michael Fannon and Jun Zhang
• "Parallel Algorithm for Center Star Sequence and Alignments with Applications to Short Reads ", Fahad Saeed and Ashfaq Khokhar
• "Shortest Path Edit Distance for Detecting Duplicate Biological Entities", Alex Rudniy, Min Song and James Geller
• "Mathematical Modeling for the Coagulation and Bone Ingrowth around a Dental Implant", Juan Carlos Vanegas Acosta, Diego Alexander Garzon Alvarado and Martin Casale Rozo
• "Computational Model Of Two Stages Of The Postnatal Bone Development: Appearance and Formation of Secondary Ossification Centre", Liliana Peinado and Diego Alexander Garzon Alvarado
• "Docking Arachidonic Acid to 8R-Lipoxygenase Using Internal Coordinate Mechanics",Tianchuan Du, Shuju Bai, ebrahim Khosravi, Marcia Newcomer and Konstantin Kousoulas
• "EGGSlicer: Predicting biologically meaningful gene sets from conserved gene clusters using gene ontology information ", Sun Kim, Kwangmin Choi, Heejoon Chae and Haleh Ashiki
• "Estimating the dynamics of protofibril elongation involved in Aβ-42peptide aggregation in Alzheimer's disease ", Preetam Ghosh, Amit Kumar, Bhaswati Datta and Vijayaraghavan Rangachari
• "Efficient Query Evaluation for DAG-shaped Hierarchies", En Cheng, Ali Cakmak and Meral Ozsoyoglu
• "Use of ternary similarities in graph based clustering for protein structural family classification ", Guillaume Santini, Henry Soldano and Joel Pothier
• "Predicting Flavonoid UGT Regioselectivity", Arthur Jackson, Debra Knisley, Cecilia McIntosh and Phillip Pfeiffer
• "Visualization of Biological Shape Transformation by 3D Model Morphing", Mei Xiao, Jung Soh, Morgan Taschuk, Andrei Turinsky, Trish Parsons, Benedikt Hallgrimsson and Christoph Sensen
• "An ILP Formulation for the Gene Duplication Problem", Wen-Chieh Chang, John Burleigh, Oliver Eulenstein and David Fernandez-Baca
• "Breast Cancer Plasma Protein Biomarker Discovery by Coupling LC-MS/MS Proteomics and Systems Biology ", Fan Zhang, Mu Wang and Jake Y. Chen
• "Performance Evaluation of the Time-Delayed Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach to Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Microarray Data", Haoni Li, Peng Li, Chaoyang Zhang, Ping Gong and Edward Perkins
• "A Computational Exploration of Gene Regulation by Nucleosome Position ", Justin A. Fincher, Gary Tyson and Jonathan H. Dennis
• "Ontology for MicroRNA Target Prediction in Human Cancer", Jingshan Huang, Ming Tan, Dejing Dou, Lei He, Chris Townsend and Patrick J. Hayes
• "Pulmonary artery smooth muscle responses to KCl under normoxic and hypoxic conditions studied by means of a spatial network model ", Marko Gosak, Marko Marhl, Christelle Guibert, Marie Billaud and Etienne Roux
• "Applying graph theoretic approaches to microbial metagenomes: Ecological perspectives on function", Wolfgang Hankeln, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Renzo Kottmann, Pelin Yilmaz, Melissa Beth Duhaime and Frank Oliver Glockner
• "Hunting for Truly Relevant Articles in Bioinformatics Literature - A Preliminary Study ", Cen Li, Suk Seo and Ralph Butler
• "Faster Coevolution Detection of Proteins using Maximum Similar Cliques ", Alexandr Bezginov, Elisabeth R.M. Tillier and Jonathan Rose
• "In silico Predicted Essential Genes required for Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Steroid Hormone Production", David Hala, Duane B. Huggett and Dalma Martinovic
• "F-Statistics Algorithm for Gene Clustering Evaluation", Mohamad Qayoom, Qi Zhang and Christopher Taylor
• "A Novel Cancer Classifier based on Differentially Expressed Gene Network ", Jaegyoon Ahn, Youngmi Yoon and Sanghyun Park
• "Process Calculi for Systems Biology", Caroline Baroukh and Yike Guo
• "Alzheimer's Disease Target Selection, A data integration approach", Bradley W. Poland, Snehal Naik, Karl Richter, Panayiotis Zagouras, Eric Fauman, and Robert M. Peitzsch
• "Data mining of mRNA-Seq and small RNA-Seq data to find microRNA targets", Hyunsoo Kim and Ramana V. Davuluri