KSinBIT 2006

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

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06)

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

Robert Meersman - STARLab, VUB
Werner Ceusters - Ontology Research Group (ORG)
Georges De Moor - Ghent University (RUG)
Elizabeth Chang - Curtin University of Technology
Peter Dawyndt - Biometrics and Process Control (Ghent University)
Jan Van den Bussche - University of Hasselt
Antoon Goderis - University of Manchester
Paolo Romano - National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
Marie-Dominique Devignes - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LORIA (Nancy), France
Bert Coessens - ESAT - SCD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mark Wilkinson - University of British Columbia
Katy Wolstencroft - University of Manchester
Peter Li - University of Manchester
Robert Stevens - University of Manchester
Carole Goble - University of Manchester
Phillip Lord - University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
Chris Wroe - British Telecom
Michael Bada - University of Colorado and Health Sciences Center
Ilkay Altintas - San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, USA
Stephen Potter - The University of Edinburgh
Vasa Curcin - Imperial College London
Armin Haller - National University of Ireland
Eyal Oren - National University of Ireland
M. Scott Marshall - University of Amsterdam
Marco Roos - University of Amsterdam
Iwei Yeh - Stanford University

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