The Bioinformatics and Intelligent Information Processing Conference (BIIP2018), organized by China Association of Artificial Intelligence, will be held in Tianjin, China, June 15-17, 2018. The conference is supported and sponsored by Tianjin University. Bioinformatics have become intensive research topics in the recent past decade and attracted great many leading scientists working in Biology, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science. Optimization, Statistics, algorithms, and many other informatics methods have been widely used in the field. Following the successful BIIP conferences series, the purpose of BIIP 2018 is to extend the international forum for scientists, researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange ideas and approaches, to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions in this interdisciplinary field, including theoretical methodology development and its applications in biosciences and researches on various aspects of bioinformatics. Excellent speakers in China will present their results. For all details please see http://lab.malab.cn/biip/, where the full list of presenters is available.
  Papers must be written in English and submitted to Genes journal special issue. If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the paper.