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International Workshop on Knowledge Systems in Bioinformatics (KSinBIT
2006)
Montpellier, France, 29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006


In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM’06)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf


Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


Call for papers

The impact of the upcoming Internet on scientific research worldwide was
enormous, not the least in biomedical research. Especially the Human
Genome Project was the inspiration for many biological databases
publicly available via the Internet. As of now, conducting biomedical
research without the Internet is nearly impossible. The information
needed for analysis and interpretation of experimental results is
usually scattered over a multitude of heterogeneous data sources:
sequence databases (Genbank, Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL), protein resources
(iProClass (PIR), PDB, InterPro), gene expression data repositories
(GEO, ArrayExpress), literature databases (PubMed, Web of Science),
functional annotation databases (GO, Kegg), etc. Many researchers depend
on the Internet as the most important source of biomedical information.
As the amount of available data increases at a rate never seen before,
researchers are now faced with the problem of finding the information
they need, in a format they can work with.

Several initiatives exist that try to integrate multiple data sources
(SRS, Ensembl, Entrez Gene) or facilitate complex bioinformatics queries
(Biozon) and analyses (BioMOBY, myGrid). However, the integration is not
always in tune with the user’s requirements for information. This is
where emerging Internet technologies can help. Semantic web
technologies, like ontologies, will enable fast, context-sensitive
retrieval of biological data. Web services will allow extensive
automatization of complex bioinformatics tasks and drive the
standardization process. Grid computing will transform the Internet in a
gigantic instrument for solving the mystery of life. Yet, that is the
future.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners to exchange ideas with respect to knowledge systems in
bioinformatics that make extensive use of medical and biological
semantics and ontologies, web services technologies, and/or distributed
databasing and computing to tackle the issues mentioned above. We invite
all researchers working in this cross-section between information
technology and biomedical research to contribute.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:

      * Medical and biological ontologies and taxonomies
      * Biomedical data management
      * Data source integration
      * Conceptual integration through visualization
      * Semantic web applications in bioinformatics
      * Bioinformatics web services
      * Ontology driven mediation
      * Automated functional annotation using ontologies
      * Automated knowledge discovery
      * In silico hypthesis testing
      * Middleware for in silico experimentation
      * Workflow management in bioinformatics
      * …
        



Submission requirements

Papers submitted to KSinBIT 2006 must not have been accepted for
publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or
conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All
submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and
must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors
instructions can be found
at:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ksinbit/2006/papers

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the proceedings.


Important dates


        Paper Submission Deadline
        
        
        June 30, 2006
        
        
        Notification of Acceptance
        
        
        August 10, 2006
        
        
        Camera Ready Due
        
        
        August 20, 2006
        
        
        OTM Conferences
        
        
        October 29 - November 3, 2006
        
        


Program chairs


      * Maja Hadzic

Centre for Extended Enterprise and Business Intelligence
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
hadzicm@cbs.curtin.edu.au


      * Bart De Moor

ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
bart.demoor@esat.kuleuven.be


      * Yves Moreau

ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
yves.moreau@esat.kuleuven.be


      * Arek Kasprzyk

European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
arek@ebi.ac.uk


Program committee members

To be announced.



This is a joint workshop organised by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB,
Belgium) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL, Belgium), and
co-organised with BioScope-IT, the Flemish Bioinformatics Network
(Belgium).


VUB-StarLab:http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/

KULeuven-ESAT-SCD:http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/scd/

BioScope-IT:http://www.bioscope-it.be


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