The topics of interest of the IWOBI 2020 conference include, but are not limited to:

    Optimization and metaheuristic
    Biomathematics and Biostatistics
    Numerical Methods and Differential equations modeling
    Pattern Recognition and Classification
    Machine learning and Computational Intelligence Techniques
    Robotics
    Signal Processing and Analysis
    Computer vision
    Intelligent Networks
    Bioinformatics
    Computational anatomy
    Natural sounds and Speech Recognition
    Models of biological learning
    Brain - machine interfaces
    Speech and handwriting recognition
    Intelligent healthcare sytems
    Parallel Algorithms
    Parallel Programming Techniques
    Large Scale Distributed Systems
    High Performance Applications and Tools
    Multicore Architectures and Accelerators
    Grid and Cloud Computing, and Federations
    HPC Infrastructure and Datacenters
    Scientific and Industrial Computing
    Big data, Data Management and Visualization
    Dynamic models of metabolic, signaling and gene expression networks, Flux Balance Analysis
    Improvements in genome assembly
    Biological network reconstruction and analysis
    Biomarker discovery and Disease classification
    Next - generation sequencing, copy number and gene expression analysis, Proteomics, Pharmacogenomics, epigenomics & other omics, Functional genomics
    Molecular evolution and phylogeny
    Protein folding and Protein docking
    Translational bioinformatics and Immunoinformatics
    Microbiomes applied to the field of conservation biology, disease and health
    Metagenomics of unusual environments
    Applications of transcriptomics to study genome evolution and adaptation