- From: Olivier Bodenreider <olivier@nlm.nih.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:44:51 -0400
- To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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DILS 2012 Call for Participation
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Registration is open: http://www.cvent.com/d/9cq14w/1Q
Deadline for posters and demos: May 31, 2012
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8th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
College Park, MD, USA,
June 28-29, 2012
http://sites.google.com/site/webdils2012
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About the Conference
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Applications of data integration in the life sciences have started to
provide significant results. For example, the eMERGE Network has
recently demonstrated that combining phenotype information extracted
from electronic medical records with genotype information in order to
study the relationship between genome-wide genetic variation and common
human traits is a viable and cost-effective alternative to the
traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
Of course, such studies leverage the foundational work of the past
decade on biomedical data integration (architectures, data models,
ontologies, privacy, etc), which had paved the way for life sciences
infrastructures, such as ELIXIR, the open source Informatics for
Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) platform, and federated query
tools, such as the Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE).
The increasing availability of "big data", coming from high-throughput
analytical techniques, large clinical data repositories, the biomedical
literature and online resources, offers exciting opportunities to
researchers, but also poses new integration challenges.
DILS 2012 is the 8th in a series on international conferences that aim
at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and
development in the areas of data integration and data management for the
life sciences. Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine,
computer science and engineering are invited to share their knowledge
and experience.
DILS 2012 will have three keynotes talks, peer-reviewed paper
presentations, flash presentations, and a poster/demo session.
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Poster/demo submission
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DILS 2012 invites submissions for posters and demos to be presented in
the poster/demo session at the conference.
Please submit poster/demo abstracts to dils2012conference at gmail.com
as plain text files (up to 400 words, exclusive of title, authors and
affiliations), clearly specifying the category (Poster or Demo).
The poster/demo abstracts are not part of the main DILS 2012
proceedings, but will be published on the DILS web site and distributed
at the conference. The organizers will provide a basic setup (easels,
tables), but no computers or projectors.
The best posters will be selected for a flash presentation during the
main conference.
Submission: May 31, 2012
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Keynote speakers
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* Jim Ostell, NCBI, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Entrez: The NCBI Search and Discovery Engine
* Ken Barker, IBM Watson group
Combining Structured and Unstructured Knowledge Sources for
Question Answering in Watson
* Jim Cimino, Clinical Center, NIH
The Biomedical Translational Research Information System:
Clinical Data Integration at the National Institutes of Health
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Program
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- Foundations of Data Integration
* InterOnto - Ranking Inter-Ontology Links
Silke Trißl, Philipp Hussels and Ulf Leser
* Finding Cross Genome Patterns in Annotation Graphs
Joseph Benik, Caren Chang, Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal,
Guillermo Palma and Andreas Thor
* Pay-as-you-go Ranking of Schema Mappings using Query Logs
Ruhaila Binti Maskat, Norman W. Paton and Suzanne Embury
- New Paradigms for Data Integration
* Cancer Data Integration and Querying with GeneTegra
E. Patrick Shironoshita, Yves R. Jean-Mary, Ray M. Bradley,
Patricia Buendia and Mansur R. Kabuka
* Integrating large, disparate biomedical ontologies to boost organ
development network connectivity
Chimezie Ogbuji and Rong Xu
* Crowdsourcing for Validating Candidate Gene-Mutation Relations in
MEDLINE Abstracts
John D. Burger, Emily Doughty, Sam Bayer, David Tresner-Kirsch,
Ben Wellner, John Aberdeen, Kyungjoon Lee, Maricel G. Kann and Lynette
Hirschman
- Integrating Clinical Data
* ONCO-i2b2: improve patients selection through case-based
information retrieval techniques
Daniele Segagni, Riccardo Bellazzi, Alberto Zambelli, Silvia G.
Priori, Matteo Gabetta and Valentina Tibollo
* Syntactic-Semantic Frames for Clinical Cohort Identification Queries
Dina Demner-Fushman and Swapna Abhyankar
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