| 4th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS’07) | |
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United States - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia |
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| Hosted by: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Venue: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Dates: | Jun 27, 2007 through Jun 29, 2007 |
| Call for Proceedings Presentations: | 2006-11-28 through 2007-02-08 |
| Early Registration Deadline: | 2007-06-05 |
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Description |
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| Understanding the mechanisms involved in life (e.g. discovering the biological function of a set of proteins, inferring the evolution of a set of species) is becoming increasingly dependent on progress made in engineering, mathematics, and computer science. For the past 30 years, new high-throughput technologies have been developed generating large amounts of data, distributed across many data sources on the web, with high degree of semantic heterogeneity and different levels of quality. However, this data by itself is not sufficient to make scientific discovery, but must be combined with other data and processed by bioinformatics tools for patterns, similarities, and unusual occurrences to be observed. Both data integration and data mining is thus of paramount importance in life science. DILS 2007 is the fourth in a workshop series that aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the Life Science. DILS 2004 in Leipzig, DILS 2005 in San Diego, and DILS 2006 in Hinxton each attracted each around 100 researchers from all over the world. We invite researchers, and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering to participate and share their knowledge in this forum. DILS 2007 will have two keynote talks, peer-reviewed paper presentations, and a poster session. Papers must address challenges for data integration and data management in life sciences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and data management techniques for biological data integration * Querying and optimizing access to life science data sets * Complex biological data types and data modeling of life science data * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Metadata and annotation management * Provenance of biological data sets * Scientific workflows, data analysis pipelines, tool integration, and laboratory information management systems * Biological data quality and data cleaning * Ontology-based data integration and analysis * System prototypes and commercial solutions Important dates Research papers due: February 8, 2007 Author notification: March 15, 2007 Camera-ready copy due: April 12, 2007 General Chair: Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania (Chair) Program co-Chairs: Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania Christian Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania Proceedings Editor: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, University of Pennsylvania Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania Sponsorship Chair: Howard Bilofsky, University of Pennsylvania Website & Publicity: Olivier Biton, University of Pennsylvania Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, University of Pennsylvania Local Arrangements: Tara Betterbid, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://dils07.cis.upenn.edu |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
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