Pattern Recognition.- Image Processing.- Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction.- Healthcare Informatics Theory and Methods.- Genetic Algorithms.- Blind Source Separation.- Intelligent Fault Diagnosis.- Machine Learning; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.- Gene Expression Array Analysis.- Systems Biology.- Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Biological Systems.- Intelligent Computing in Computational Biology.- Computational Genomics.- Computational Proteomics.- Gene Regulation Modeling and Analysis.- SNPs and Haplotype Analysis.- Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction.- Protein Structure and Function Prediction.- Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics.- Structure Prediction and Folding.- Biomarker Discovery.- Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to Computational Proteomics, Genomics, and Biological Sequence Analysis; Biomedical Image Analysis.- Human-Machine Interaction: Shaping Tools Which Will Shape Us.- Protein and Gene Bioinformatics: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications.- Special Session on Computer Vision based Navigation.- Neural Networks: Theory and Application.