Bioinformatics and Bioengineering

Technical Committee (BBTC)

Chair: Jung-Hsien Chiang

Vice-Chairs: Steven Corns

Sanaz Mostaghim

June 18, 2013

CIBCB.org

BBTC Members

2012 Dec AdCom 2013 June AdCom

32 Members 26 Members

North America: 17 North America: 12

Latin America: 0 Latin America: 0

Europe: 7 Europe: 6

Africa: 0 Africa: 0

Asia: 7 Asia: 8

Oceania: 1 Oceania: 0

Male: 23, Female: 9Members from Industry: 0

Male: 20, Female: 6Members from Industry: 0

New Members: 3 New Members: 5

BBTC Main Conference Statistics

Year Location Attendance Accepted /Submitted Oral Poster SS1 Work-

shops Tutorials Comp2

06 Toronto 67/106 (63%) 47 19 0 0 0 0

07 SSCI 72/131 (55%) 29 37 2 0 3 0

08 Sun Valley 39/ 60 (65%)09 SSCI 43/ 85 (51%) 43 0 1 0 13 0

10 Montreal 42/ 65 (65%) 32 10 0 2 8 0

11 SSCI 27/ 50 (54%) 22 5 0 0 0 0

12 San Diego 60/ 83 (70%) 44 14 4 0 3 1

13 SSCI 44/ 69 (63%) 35 9 3 0 3 0

14 Honolulu

151. SS: Special Sessions 2. Comp: Competitions

CIBCB : Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Plans for 2014 and 2015: A proposal for IEEE CIBCB 2014 at Honolulu was approved by the CIS AdCom. Proposals for IEEE CIBCB 2015 will be discussed at the 2013 Cancun meeting.

Activities in 2013Symposium:

CIBCB 2013, April 16-19, 2013

Special Sessions:1. Computational Intelligence in Genetic Regulatory Network (organized by Alioune Ngom, Sanjoy Das, Yifeng Li, Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi, Youlian Pan,)2. Interpretable models for bioinformatics and biosignals (organized by Paulo Lisboa) 3. Medical Informatics(organized by Victor Lee and Xia Fei)

Activities in 2013

Keynote Speeches:

Keynote1: Pattern Recognition Methods for Biomolecular Data AnalysisBy Dr. Hong Yan

Keynote2: Knowledge-based Systems in Immunology: Data Mining of Vaccine Targets from Viral PathogensBy Dr. Vladimir Brusic

Keynote3: Interpretability in Computational IntelligenceBy Dr. Paulo Lisboa

Activities in 2013

IEEE CEC2013

Special Sessions:Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

(Organized by Sheridan Houghten, Michael Lones, and Clare Bates Congdon)

Tutorials:“Using evolutionary algorithms in the modeling and analysis of gene signaling pathways”By Sorin Draghici

1. Review of recent activities

CIBCB2013

CEC2013

2. Updated CIBCB2014 information (Chair: Steven Corns)

keynote speakers

focus on advertising

3. Discussion of CIBCB2015 proposal

4. Working plan for 2013-14

5. Ways to improve task forces

6. BBTC website

2013 BBTC Meeting

1. Increase reach of CIBCB, with the hope of attracting more submissions

1. Broader scope of scientific areas and methods2. Conference status in 2014 (Hawaii)3. Consider extended papers for journal special

issues2. Continue to develop cibcb.org website

1. Portal to use for all CIBCB meetings2. Record of past CIBCB meetings3. Collect tutorial materials

3. Additional activities,

1. Competitions at SSCI 2014 and beyond

2. Call for proposals and tutorials at WCCI2014

Working Plan for 2013-14

4. Strong supports for CIBCB meetings, and special sessions at other conferences

5. To dissolve all Task Forces, with encouragement for active ones to re-form in BBTC

1. Task forces should have “tasks”2. Inactive TFs should be dismantled3. Suggestion: have all TFs reapply

6. More BBTC-sponsored activities at WCCI, such as IJCNN and FUZZ-IEEE (Tutorials and Special Sessions)

Working Plan for 2013-14