Call for Papers




2007 VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics


Vienna, Austria
Hosted by: VLDB 2007
Venue: University of Vienna
Dates: Sep 23, 2007
September 23, 2007, University of Vienna, Austria

Call for Papers: June 01, 2007 - June 30, 2007
2007 VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB07/

(I) WORKSHOP SCOPE AND OBJECTIVE
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 databases, 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: Text mining and ontologies High-throughput storage/processing/analysis, e.g., gene expression data Visualization of large data sets Interpretation of experiments in the context of knowledge from databases Protein or gene interaction networks RNAi and microRNA analysis Systems biology Pathways Genomic and proteomic sequence analysis Comparative genomics Phylogenetics

(II) SUBMISSION DEADLINES and GUIDELINES
The full paper submission is closed now, but we continue to accept abstracts and short papers (2 pages or more). Those that were received and accepted by July 30 may be considered for publication in VLDB CD version proceedings.
Deadlines: June 30, 2007
Acceptance: July 25, 2007
Camera ready: July 30, 2007
Workshop date: September 23, 2007

Guidelines and instructions
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB07/submission.html

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 neither be published or under review in other venues. Selected papers will be published in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 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 10 pages in double column format for full length papers. Each submission must be accompanied by a separate cover letter with title, key words, all author names and affiliations, and must specify a contact author along with postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address.

(III) WORKSHOP FORMAT
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB07/program.html We will release workshop details in the future. All enquiries should be addressed to one of the co-chairs:

Mehmet M. Dalkilic: dalkilic [at] indiana.edu
David P. Kreil: vldb07 [at] kreil.org
Sun Kim: sunkim [at] bio.informatics.indiana.edu
Jiong Yang: jiong.yang [at] case.edu