Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:

1. Bioinformatics
2. Bioinformatics and Algorithms
3. Ontology/Databases/SW Engineering
4. Functional Genomics/Gene Expression Analysis
5. Genome-wide Studies
6. Systems Biology/Modeling for Biomedical Systems/ Biological Networks
7. Disease Bioinformatics/Disease Mechanisms
8. Proteomics and Applications to Molecular Medicine
9. Membrane Proteins
10. Protein Structure and Design
11. Biomedical Imaging
12. Computer Engineering 
13. Computer Vision, Graphics and Intelligence 
14. Computational and Artificial Intelligence 
15. Computer Vision 
16. Pattern Analysis and Recognition 
17. Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality 
18. Human-Computer Interaction 
19. Simulation and Modeling 
20. Natural Language Understanding 
21. Networks and Systems 
22. Computer networks 
23. Parallel and Distributed Computing 
24. Computer Architecture 
25. Operating Systems 
26. Security and Cryptography 
27. Mobile computing 
28. Reconfigurable computing systems 
29. Sensor networks 
30. Embedded systems 
31. Data Management 
32. Databases 
33. Information Retrieval 
34. Web Data Management 
35. Web Information Systems 
36. Multimedia DB's 
37. Mining Data, Text, and the Web 
38. Educational Technology 
39. Bioinformatics and Biosciences