The conference is an interdisciplinary scientific forum for discussing issues of mathematical modelling and information technology. It presents the results of the mathematical description of biological systems related to bioinformatics, molecular and structural biology, biophysics, biomedicine, pharmacology, nanobiotechnology, as well as digital terrain analysis and computational ecology. The conference is held every two years.
The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Department of Zoology of the VSAM, the 80th anniversary of the birth and 50th anniversary of the scientific work of the professor of the department, Doctor of Biological Sciences of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, Honorary Ecologist of Belarus Vladimir Ivanovsky
The Congress in Petrozavodsk is timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the birth of leading Karelian ornithologist V. B. Zimin. The Congress is dedicated to his memory as a scientist who made significant contributions to the study of the avifauna of Northwest Russia, the development of field research, and the formation of a regional school of ornithology