Biotechnology
and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2010)
October 15-16, 2010
Lafayette,
Louisiana
Welcome
to BIOT-2010. This year, the BIOT symposium will be held in LITE auditorium at
Lafayette, Louisiana,
hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette..
HISTORY
The symposium started in Colorado
Springs in 2004. It was held previously at the University of Colorado in
Colorado Springs (2004, 2005 and 2007), at Brigham Young University in Provo,
Utah (2006), at the University of Texas at Arlington (2008), and at University
of Nabraska-Lincoln (2009). Started as a regional event, the symposium now
attracts paper and poster contributions
from
all over the United States and several foreign countries,
from authors of diverse scientific backgrounds. Selected papers from the
Symposium have been published in special issues of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and
Applications (IJBRA). Because of its true multidisciplinary
orientation and the high quality of the presented work, interest
in this symposium and its reputation have been steadily growing over the
years.
OBJECTIVE
The Symposium's objective is to
showcase research and development activities in bioinformatics and
computational biology, and biotechnology, and to promote future
interdisciplinary activity and research in these areas. The Symposium brings together scientists in multiple disciplines:
computer scientists, engineers, and researchers from biotechnology,
bioinformatics, and the medical research community.
Each field that
BIOT attracts has its own tradition. For example, in computer science, it is
customary to require the submission of full papers for review several months
prior to a conference or symposium. Conferences in other disciplines generally
require that an abstract or extended abstract be submitted for review. The
organizing committee of BIOT understands these differences, and the speakers
will be invited from both accepted papers and abstracts. Accepted papers and
abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings. Abstracts for poster
presentation are also accepted.
We
would like to thank our sponsors for BIOT-2010: