From goletsis from cc.uoi.gr Wed Feb 14 11:38:36 2007 From: goletsis from cc.uoi.gr (yorgos goletsis) Date: Wed Feb 14 12:51:34 2007 Subject: [Bio-www] QA-GEN Workshop - CFP, Sheffield, UK July, 22-23, 2007 Message-ID: <45D33B0C.3000006@cc.uoi.gr> CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QA-Gen Workshop QA-gen Workshop: Quantitative approaches for knowledge discovery and decision support in the post genomic era In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007) 22-27 of July, 2007, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Call for Papers and Participation Bioinformatics research is booming and genomics, proteomics or even metabolomics are the words of the moment. It is the sequencing of the human genome that is expected to bring about a major impact on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and outcome of several diseases. Progress will most likely occur in a stepwise fashion with the biggest initial impact in diagnosis and molecular targeting of new medicines. This abundance of new data, however, requires the combination of statistical and machine learning techniques for the efficient extraction of knowledge and analysis of data. Modelling, simulation, pattern analysis, image analysis and data mining algorithms and techniques that combine good performance both in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency appear as a necessity if we want such systems to be put in practice and to support clinical practice (diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection, drug design). The goal of this workshop is to explore state-of-art approaches and challenges on the field. Topics Topics to be addressed in the submissions, include (without being limited to) quantitative analysis, knowledge based or artificial intelligence applications in bioinformatics related to: * Expression analysis * Sequence analysis * Structure prediction * Image processing, quantification and analysis * Web services and platforms * Ontology engineering * Simulation tools * In-silico oncology * Algorithms & tools to support knowledge discovery * Models & tools to support clinical bioinformatics Submission Details Both contributions with a theoretical and a practical focus are welcome. Papers could demonstrate algorithms and techniques related to quantitative analysis and knowledge discovery in the bioinformatics domain but also practical application and systems for related decision support. Papers will be reviewed for adherence to the workshop scope and quality by the chairs and additional reviewers. Approximately 10-12 papers will be selected for presentation. Accepted papers of appropriate quality will be published in an ISBN numbered ICCS-2007 Workshop Volume by Springer. Important Dates * *Paper submission*: o Directly to the workshop chairs via e-mail o Deadline: April 4, 2007. 5-6 pages, in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS rules . See the Workshops web site * *Notification of acceptance*: April 15, 2007 * *Camera ready copy*: April 28, 2007 * *Workshop*: July, 22 and 23 of July 2007. Program Chairs * Yorgos Goletsis, University of Ioannina, Greece, Technical Manager of MATCH project (e-mail: goletsis AT cc DOT uoi DOT gr) * Costas Papaloukas, University of Ioannina, Greece (e-mail: papalouk AT cc DOT uoi DOT gr) Further Information For further information on the workshop you can contact directly the conference chair. See the ICCS 07 website for further information on ICCS 2007. You can contact the workshop organisers directly for any further information. The workshop is organised within the framework of MATCH project (IST-2005-027266) with the co-operation of University of Patras , Sheffield Halam University and University of Ioannina .