ACM First International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TMBIO) 2006

DATE: November 10, 2006
LOCALE: Arlington, VA (US)

In conjunction with ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 6-11, 2006, Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, VA 22202 USA

A fundamental issue that biological researchers encounter today is how to make effective use of the enormous amount of biomedical data to improve their understanding of complex biological systems. The biomedical data repositories are formed from various ways such as bibliographic information from electronic medical journals, gene expression data from Microarray experiments, protein identification and quantification data from proteomics experiments, and genomic sequences gathered by the Human Genome Project. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, integrate, understand and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous unstructured data remains a challenging task.

In order to build Text Mining systems that contribute to our understanding of biological systems, solutions to the above problems have to be assembled into efficient and scalable systems. The workshop aims at facilitating this process, and at enhancing the exchange of knowledge between computational biologists and knowledge discovery researchers. Accordingly, our intended audiences are both computational biologists and Text Mining researchers.

Expanded versions of the best accepted papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due: July 21, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006
Camera-ready Paper Due: August 31, 2006
Workshop: November 10, 2006

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Templates and instructions can be found at the links below:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/cikm.htm

Questions and submissions can be sent to:
min.song[at]njit.edu