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: