ACM Second International Workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO)

LOCALE: In conjunction with ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, CA (US)
DATE: October 30, 2008

The rapid development of bioinformatics techniques is leading to innovations in various fields in computer science including data mining, text mining, information retrieval, and database management, among others. A fundamental issue presented in bioinformatics research is how to make effective use of the enormous amount of biological and biomedical data to improve the understanding of biological systems. Such data include but not limited to the gene expression profiles from Microarray experiments, protein sequences and structures from high-throughput sequence and structure determination methods, protein-protein interactions from proteomic study, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms from SNP arrays, and bibliographic information from electronic medical journals. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, understand, integrate, and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous semi-structured or unstructured data characterizes the state of the bioinformatics field.

The 2nd CIKM workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics (DTMbio) will provide a forum for investigators to present the latest data mining research in bioinformatics research.

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper due: July 20, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: August 3, 2008
Camera ready: August 13, 2008

Selected papers will be invited for a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

See the workshop website http://web.njit.edu/~song/dtmbio2008/home.html for information about web submission and workshop program.