Ninth International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio & Medical Sciences (ICCABS)

计算技术正在极大地影响着科学和工程研究的进行方式。包括生物学、医学和药物发现在内的不同领域都取得了令人印象深刻的进步。鉴于这些领域对整个社会的巨大重要性，有必要推进这些领域的最新技术。当这些领域的科学家共同努力，并提出最好的诊断工具、治疗程序、各种疾病的药物等时，就可以取得这样的进步。尽管今天在生物信息学的一般领域存在许多会议，但它们在很大程度上集中在这三个领域中的一个。第九届国际IEEE生物和医学科学计算进展会议（ICCABS）的目标是将生物学、医学和药物发现方面的科学家聚集在一起，从而为他们提供一个合作平台。这些合作可能会解决其中一些具有挑战性的问题。申请的资金将用于支持研究生的差旅费。这些学生将会见专家并听取他们的研究成果。不仅是参加会议的学生，他们在本国机构的同事也会参加，因为当与会者回到他们的学校时，他们将与其他学生交流他们的经历。会议记录将对学生、研究人员和从业人员非常有用。杂志特刊也在计划中。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Computational techniques are drastically impacting the way in which scientific and engineering research are conducted. Impressive advances have been made in different areas including biology, medicine, and drug discovery. Given the great importance of these areas to the society at large, it is essential to advance the state-of-the art in them. Such advances can be made when the scientists from these domains work together and come up with the best possible diagnosis tools, treatment procedures, drugs for various diseases, etc. Even though a number of conferences exist today in the general area of bioinformatics, they focus on one of these three areas to a large extent. The Ninth International IEEE Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and medical Sciences (ICCABS) has the goal of bringing together scientists in biology, medicine, and drug discovery and hence serving as a collaboration platform for them. These collaborations are likely to result in the solution of some of these challenging problems.The requested funds will be used to support the travel expenses of graduate students. These students will get to meet experts and listen to their research results. Not only will the attending students but so will their colleagues at their home institution, since when attendees return to their schools they will communicate their experiences with other students. The conference proceedings will be of great use to students, researchers, and practitioners. Journal special issues are also planned.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.