| NIPS Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology | |
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Canada - British Columbia - Whistler |
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| Hosted by: | Gal Chechik, Christina Leslie, Gunnar Rätsch, and Koji Tsuda |
| Venue: | Westin Resort and Spa |
| Dates: | Dec 17, 2004 through Dec 18, 2004 |
| Call for Proceedings Presentations: | 2004-08-31 through 2004-10-15 |
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Description |
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| The field of computational biology has seen a dramatic growth over the past few years, both in terms of new available data, new scientific questions and new challenges and for learning and inference. In particular, biological data is often relationally structured and highly diverse, thus requires to combine multiple weak evidence from heterogeneous sources. These could include sequenced genomes of a variety of organisms, gene expression data from multiple technologies, protein sequence and 3D structural data, protein interactions, gene ontology and pathway databases, genetic variation data (such as SNPs), and an enormous amount of textual data in the biological and medical literature. The new types of scientific and clinical problems, require to develop new supervised and unsupervised learning approaches that can use these growing resources. The goal of this workshop is to present emerging problems and machine learning techniques in computational biology. Speakers from the biology/bioinformatics community will present current research problems in bioinformatics, and we invite contributed talks on novel learning approaches in computational biology. We encourage contributions describing either progress on new bioinformatics problems or work on established problems using methods that are substantially different from standard approaches. Kernel methods, graphical models, feature selection and other techniques applied to relevant bioinformatics problems would all be appropriate for the workshop. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www.stanford.edu/~gal/nips-compbio.html |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
| Contact Person: | Workshop organizers ([javascript protected email address]) |
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