Call for Papers
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2006 VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Seoul, Korea
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/
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(I) WORKSHOP SCOPE AND OBJECTIVE
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/
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Mining biological data is an emerging area of intersection between
bioinformatics and data mining. Bioinformaticians have taken a
computational approach to understanding biological phenomena.
Because these phenomena are typically characterized by large and
increasing amounts of data, divers and unusual data types, and
complex relationships, interpreting biological data requires novel
approaches that include multiple tools, new algorithms, resources,
etc. in an integrated fashion. Data mining has focused on extracting
useful information from large database, focusing on scalable, robust
algorithms and their implementations. The proposed workshop will
respond to both these areas of research by encouraging researchers
in the data mining community to bring to bear novel techniques,
combinations of tools, and so forth to mine biological data.
The objective of the workshop is to facilitate collaboration
between data mining researchers and bioinformaticians by presenting
cutting edge research topics and methodologies in the area of data
mining for bioinformatics. While such research has an
interdisciplinary character, this workshop emphasizes on the area
of data mining with particular application to bioinformatics.
The workshop will feature invited talks from noted experts in the
field and the latest data mining research in bioinformatics.
We encourage papers that propose novel data mining techniques for tasks such as:
§ Sequence clustering/classification
§ Protein interaction networks
§ Comparative genomics
§ Microarray analysis
§ RNAi and microRNA analysis
§ Whole, multiple genome comparison
§ Visualization
§ Phylogenetics
§ Text mining and ontologies
§ System biology and pathways
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(II) SUBMISSION DEADLINES & GUIDELINES
Deadlines: June 13, 2006
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/importantdates.html
Guidelines and instructions
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/submission.html
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We invite papers on original research. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of the paper. All submitted papers will peer reviewed and evaluated on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression.
The submitted material must not be either published or under review in other venues.
We plan to publish the proceedings in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics (LNBI). By submitting a paper, authors explicitly agree that at
least one of them will register for the workshop and present the paper. Submissions must not
exceed 15 pages for full length papers and 6 pages for research-in-progress proposals
and must be formatted using the camera-ready templates of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (see below).
§ Author instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
§ Each submission must be accompanied by a separate cover letter with title,
key words, every author name and affiliation, and must specify a contact author along
with postal address, phone & fax numbers, and email address.
§ Submissions must be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf) via
email to jiong1[at]eecs[dot]cwru[dot]edu.
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(III) WORKSHOP FORMAT
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/program.html
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We will release workshop details in the future.
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All enquiries should be addressed to one of the co-chairs
Mehmet M. Dalkilic: dalkilic [at] indiana [dot] edu
Sun Kim: sunkim [at] bio [dot] informatics [dot] indiana [dot] edu
Jiong Yang: jiong.yang [at] case [dot] edu
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