WCB05 - Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics October 5, 2005, Sitges (Spain) associated to ICLP 2005

Topics. Bioinformatics is a challenging research area where every major contribution can have significant impact on medicine, agriculture, and industry. Among the various problems tackled in this area are those related to the recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences, those related to Biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks) and those related to prediction of the spatial form of a polymer, given the sequence of monomers constituting it. All these problems can be naturally formalized using constraints over finite domains or intervals of reals. Moreover, Biological systems simulations can be easily designed using concurrent constraint programming.

The main aim of this workshop is to share recent results in this area (new constraint solvers, new prediction programs) and to present new challenging problems that can be addressed using constraint-based methods.

Workshop Program Pictures from the workshop Proceedings A short report

Program Committee	Important Dates
Rolf Backofen (co-chair) Jena Univ., Germany Pedro Barahona Univ. Nova de Lisbona, Portugal Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden Alessandro Dal Palù Udine Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier (co-chair) Udine Univ., Italy Francois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt, France Enrico Pontelli NMSU (USA) Sebastian Will Jena Univ., Germany	Submission Deadline: June 30 Notification to Authors: July 22 Workshop Early Registration: July 31 Camera-ready copy due: August 16