Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

 1. Genomics and Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution 

     a. Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics 
     b. Evolution, Phylogeny, Comparative Genomics 
     c. SNPs and haplotype analysis, GWAS 
     d. Protein/RNA Structure, Function and Interactions

 2. Computational Systems Biology

     a. Transcriptomics - Microarray Data Analysis 
     b. Gene Regulation, Alternative Splicing, Network/Pathway Analysis 
     c. Proteomics, PTMs, Metabolomics 
     d. Epigenomics, non-coding RNA analysis, DNA methylation analysis

 3. Medical Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics 

     a. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Data Analysis, and Electronic Health Record 
     b. Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis 
     c. Genome-Phenome Analysis 
     d. Biomarker Discovery 

 4. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure 

     a. Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies 
     b. Biological Data Mining and Visualization 
     c. Computational Modeling and Data Integration 
     d. High Performance Computing  

5. Healthcare Informatics

     a. Healthcare knowledge representation & reasoning 
     b. Health data acquisition, analysis and mining 
     c. Healthcare information systems 
     d. Clinical Decision Support and Informatics