<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-0852ee05-d2a7-1787-f6af-3fb094afc95b" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LcL-2aM44TLZVSkF3GFsJxvUS-y3hkL7RrNB2eXjnTvAadaV3-N7A8KlO1bW-uCT_yDag4fKpqX9cPVrZJgA_gfA6wNA9I6Gy-_Kj6HqijAg7a8v-M0bR1JNEKhxHZEkXR3OWp1y" width="602" height="143" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" class=""></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts]</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine***</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">hosted by </span><a href="http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CIBB 2017</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">7-9 September 2017, Cagliari, Italy</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">Paper Submission Deadline: </font><strike style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">4 June 2017</strike><font color="#333333" class=""> </font><b class=""><font color="#e32400" class="">12 june 2017</font></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">analysis of robustness of cellular networks
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">biomedical model parameterization</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">cancer progression models</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">clinical image analysis</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">emergent properties in complex biological systems
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">flux balance analysis
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">metabolic engineering
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">metabolic pathway analysis
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">model verification and refinement methods
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">models of neural activity</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">parameter estimation methods</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">personalized models</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">reverse engineering of reaction networks
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">software tools for systems biology
</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3499999999999999;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Papers due: <strike class="">4 June 2017</strike> 12 june 2017</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.3499999999999999; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Acceptance: <strike class="">22 June 2017</strike> 5 july 2017</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.3499999999999999; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration due: 17 July 2017</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; margin-left: 11pt;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3499999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Camera-ready: 22 July 2017</span></p></li></ul><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PROCEEDINGS</span></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Authors of accepted short papers (4-6 pages) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph, which is planned to be published in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(LNBI). </span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Best papers will be invited to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">BMC Bioinformatics</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, as in the latest editions).</span></p><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PAPER SUBMISSION</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Instructions for submission can be found </span><a href="http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/call.php" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">here</span></a></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">SESSION CHAIRS</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chiara Damiani,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Riccardo Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CONTACT</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chiara Damiani, PhD</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">mail: <a href="mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it" class="">chiara.damiani@unimib.it</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">phone: +39 02 64487918</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></span><div class="">
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<div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Chiara Damiani, Ph.D.</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication </span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">University of Milan Bicocca </span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) -</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">phone: +39 02 64487918</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">mail: <a href="mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it" class="">chiara.damiani@unimib.it</a></span></div>
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