Bioinformatics is the field of science in which Biology, Computer Science, and information technology merge to form a single discipline. The ultimate goal of the field is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create a global perspective from which unifying principles in Biology can be discerned. The analysis and interpretation of biological data is an extremely hard task due to their complexity, size and noisy nature. Recent applications of Computational Intelligence (CI) in this area suggest that they are well-suited to this area of research. This workshop will highlight applications of CI to a broad range of topics. Particular interest will be directed towards novel applications of CI approaches to problems in these areas.

Computational Intelligence, a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence, studies, mostly nature inspired, adaptive mechanisms to facilitate intelligent behavior in complex and changing environments. Some of the most important CI representative methods are: Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Ant-colony Optimization, and Fuzzy Systems. Individual techniques from these CI paradigms, as well as hybridizations between CI approaches, have been applied successfully to solve Applied Biology, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology problems.

The aim of CIAB2013 (prlab.ceid.upatras.gr/CIAB2013/) workshop is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists and to deal with problems from the field of Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Chemical Informatics, and Bioengineering. Issues related to the theory of Computational Intelligence techniques, as well as applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be addressed in this workshop in order to motivate research in new trend-setting directions. This is the third year of the existence of the CIAB2013 workshop. CIAB2011 took place in Corfu, Greece, 15-18 September, 2011 at the 12th EANN/7th AIAI Joint Conference (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/eann2011/) and CIAB2012 in London, United Kingdom, 20-23 September, 2012 at the 13th EANN Conference.

CIAB2013 welcomes paper submissions introducing and implementing Computational Intelligent techniques to address various problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Our aim is to bring together researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners from academia to industry working in multi-disciplinary area and technically converging areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Systems Biology
• Molecular Sequence Alignment and Analysis
• RNA and protein folding and structure prediction
• Gene expression analysis from microarrays
• Protein-Protein interactions
• Biological Networks
• Biological Processes
• Biological and Medical Ontologies
• Computational Proteomics and Genomics
• In-silico Optimization of Biological Systems
• High-Throughput Data Analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, NGS etc.)
• Analysis of Large Biological Data Sets
• Medical Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the Proceedings of the main event (by Springer). Selected extended papers are going to be considered for a special issue publication in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/).

Program Committee

Prof. Spiridon D. Likothanassis
Professor,
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras
26500 Patras, Greece

Dr. Efstratios F. Georgopoulos,
Associate Professor,
Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Kalamata
Antikalamos, 24100, Kalamata, Greece

Dr. Seferina Mavroudi
Assistant Professor (P.D. 407/80),
Department of Social Work, School of Sciences of Health and Care,
Technological Educational Institute of Patras
26332 Patras, Greece

Dr. Sofia Kossida
Investigator
Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team
Foundation for Biomedical Research,
Academy of Athens
28 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, 10679, Greece

Prof. Athanasios Tsakalidis
Professor,
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras
26500 Patras, Greece

Dr. Horacio Perez-Sanchez
Computer Engineering Department
School of Computer Science
University of Murcia, Spain

Dr. Joshe Garcia
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Technology
University of Alicante
Dpt. Computer Technology PO Box. 99. 03080 Alicante (Spain)

Prof. Alex Gammerman
Professor of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Hill, EGHAM, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

Dr. Vassilis P. Plagianakos
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics
University of Central Greece
2-4 Papassiopoulou Street, Lamia, 35100, Greece

Dr. George D. Magoulas
Professor of Computer Science London Knowledge Lab- www.lkl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck College, University of London

Dr. Panos Kalnis
Associate Professor
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Dr Adam Adamopoulos
Assistant Professor,
Department of Medicine,
University of Thrace, 681 00 Alexandroupoli, Greece

Dr. Charalampos Moschopoulos
Faculty of Engineering - ESAT/SCD,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

Dr. Ioannis Valavanis
Post-doctoral Researcher
Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., 11635 Athens, Greece

Dr. Dimitris Vlachakis
Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team
Foundation for Biomedical Research,
Academy of Athens
28 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, 10679, Greece

Dr. Georgia Tsiliki
Senior Researcher Scientist
Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team
Foundation for Biomedical Research,
Academy of Athens
28 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, 10679, Greece

Konstantinos Theofilatos
MCs and PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
University of Patras,
Patra, 26500, Greece