The confluence of computers and life sciences is emerging into a spectrum of subfields. While at one end, the flood of data from biology, mainly in the form of DNA, RNA and Amino-acid sequences is putting heavy demand on computers and computational techniques, fine analytical and engineering skills are in great demand in the field of biology, as seen by engineering approaches to protein folding prediction and gene finding problems and also modeling of cellular networks in systems biology and synthetic biology.

As the disciplines of bioinformatics, computational biology and synthetic biology are gaining prominence day by day, an industry is also emerging fast on its shoulders, estimated at $1.82 billion in 2007. The backdrop of directly or indirectly combating diseases through all these subfields reinforces the field's relevance.

The international symposium on bioinformatics, computational biology and synthetic biology provides an opportunity for the researchers in these fields to come together and share their research ideas, paving way to the development of one of the most significant emerging areas in science and technology. The symposium plans to highlight latest work in the field, covering traditional as well as advanced areas of computational work in genomics, transcriptomics (especially miRNA), proteomics, metabolomics, microarray gene expression, systems biology and synthetic biology.