- From: Melissa Cline <cline@pasteur.fr>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:59:02 +0100
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1st Call for Papers - We apologize for multiple postings =========================================================== DILS 2006 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences European Bioinformatics Institute, UK 20. - 22.7.2006 http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/dils2006 Proceedings published by Springer LNBI =========================================================== Important Dates =============== * Abstract Submission 2. March 2006 * Paper Submission 9. March 2006 * Author Notification 24. April 2006 * Camera-Ready version 16. May 2006 Aims and Scope ============== Data management and data integration are pertinent problems in the Life Sciences. Today's advances in molecular biology and molecular medicine are almost always underpinned by enormous efforts in data management, automatic data quality assurance, and computational data analysis. Many existing research directions, such as drug development, systems biology, or personalized medicine, critically depend on integrating data sets produced by different experimental methods, in different groups, and at different levels of granularity. Despite more than a decade of intensive research in these areas, there remain many unsolved problems in the fields of data management and data integration. Indeed, these problems are becoming worse, both due to continuous increases in data volumes and the growing diversity in types of data that need to be managed. As an example, integration of data from proteomics mass spectrometry or 2-hybrid assays, experimental techniques that have only been carried out at a high throughput scale for the past 2-3 years, are already pressing requirements in many projects. And the next big challenge is already upon us: The need to integrate genomics and proteomics data with the vast amounts of medical data, collected daily in thousands of hospitals world-wide. DILS 2006 is the third in a workshop series that aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the Life Science. DILS 2004 in Leipzig and DILS 2005 in San Diego each attracted each around 100 researchers from all over the world. We invite researchers, professionals, and practitioners to participate and share their knowledge in this forum. Apart from the presentation of peer-reviewed papers, DILS 2006 will have two keynote talks, progress reports from important projects in the field, and a poster session with flash presentations. Topics of Interest ================== Papers must address challenges for data integration and data management in life sciences. A special focus of DILS 2006 lies on papers that address data management issues at the interface between molecular biology and medicine. Thus, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of medical and biological data * Data management and data analysis for personalized medicine * Management and modelling of phenotype data * Modelling, storing, and querying biological network data * Managing complex annotations * Support for representing and searching biological and medical data types * Data management for biodiversity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Algorithms and architectures for data integration problems at all levels * Query processing for biomedical applications * Data mining and data-driven analysis of Life Science data sets * Ontology-based data integration and analysis * Scientific workflows and annotation pipelines * Laboratory information management systems * Methods for modelling and assuring data quality * Integrating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics data * Data management issues in pharmacogenomics Note that papers must have a clear focus on biological or biomedical issues to be considered for acceptance. Paper Submission ================ DILS 2006 invites two types of papers: 1. Research papers describe novel methods, algorithms, or models for solving problems relevant to the scope of DILS. The main focus of such papers must be the advancement of research on data integration or data management. Research papers must not be longer than 16 pages. 2. Systems or experience papers describe innovative realizations of systems solving problems relevant to DILS. These papers need not present a new method, but the systems described must use cutting-edge technology and must be up-and-running. Papers describing commercial solutions are also welcome, as long as sufficient detail of the problem and its technical solution are provided. Systems papers must not be longer than 12 pages. As for previous DILS conferences, accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) series. All papers must be previously unpublished and may not be under parallel review at any other journal, conference, or workshop. Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS guidelines (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All submissions will be handled electronically. Acceptance of each submission will be based by the expertise of at least three reviewers. DILS 2006 will also have a poster session. Posters are published on the DILS web site, but are not part of the proceedings. Selected posters will have the chance to be presented in a flash presentation session. Venue ===== DILS 2006 will take place at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, UK (near Cambridge). The EBI is one of the largest centers world-wide for hosting, managing, and developing data management and data analysis systems for the Life Sciences. It hosts and contributes to the maintenance of a number of very important databases in this area, such as UniProt, Ensembl, InterPro, and the European branch of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database. Furthermore, the institute is situated side-by-side with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, one of the biggest genome research institutes in the world. Together, the EBI and the Sanger Centre have created an inspiring atmosphere that has turned Cambridge into of the largest centers for Biotech companies in the United Kingdom. Organization ============ * Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany * Barbara Eckman, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences, USA * Felix Naumann, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany * Paul Kersey, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK Program Committee ================= Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Anthony Kosky, Axiope Inc, USA Arek Kasprzyk, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, USA Bertram Weiss, Schering AG, Germany Christian Piepenbrock, Epigenomics AG, Germany David Benton, GlaxoSmithKline, USA Dennis Paul Wall, Harvard Medical School, USA Emmanuel Barillot, Institut Curie, Paris, France Erhard Rahm Universität, Leipzig, Germany Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh and Limburgs Universitair Centrum, UK H V Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Jacob Koehler, Rothamsted Research, UK Jamie Cuticchia, Research Triangle Institute, USA Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan, USA Joachim Hammer, University of Florida, USA Juergen Eils, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ, Germany Laure Berti-Equille, Universitaire de Beaulieu, France Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA Michael Schroeder, Technical University Dresden, Germany Mike Hogarth, UC Davis, USA Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Nick Murall, LION Bioscience, Germany/UK Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK Otto Ritter, AstraZeneca, USA Paula Matuszek, GlaxoSmithKline Beecham, USA Peter Bunemann, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Karp, SRI International, USA Peter Mork, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA Sharon Wang, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, USA Stefan Jablonski, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, USA
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