(Apologies for cross-postings)
Call for Papers
10th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
(DILS 2014) Lisbon, Portugal July 17-18, 2014
http://dils2014.inesc-id.pt
Important dates:
February 7, 2014: Abstract submission deadline
February 14, 2014: Paper submission deadline
April 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
May 3, 2014: Camera-ready copy due
July 17-18, 2014: Conference
The DILS conference is an interdisciplinary forum on advances in data
integration, data management and data analysis for the life sciences.
Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and
engineering are invited to contribute their latest results. Of particular
interest are topics related to enabling the use of Big Data in life science
research and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big Data Integration for the life sciences
- Ontology mappings and evolution
- Large-scale data analysis for the life sciences
- Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences
- Query processing and optimization for biological data
- Biological data sharing and update propagation
- Query formulation assistance for scientists
- Modeling of life sciences data
- Biomedical data integration issues in eScience
- Laboratory information management systems in biology (including workflow
systems)
- Quality assurance in integrated biological data repositories
- Biomedical metadata management (including provenance)
- Mining integrated life sciences data and text resources
- Standards for biomedical data integration and annotation
- Scientific results arising from innovative data integration solutions
- Exposing biomedical data for integration (APIs, Linked Open Data, SPARQL
endpoints)
- Creation and use of clinical data repositories
- Data integration in clinical and translational research
- Integration of genotypic and phenotypic data
- Challenges and opportunities with big data in the life sciences
- Ethical, legal and social issues with biomedical data integration.
The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes
in Bioinformatics (LNBI) series.
The authors of the best papers will be eligible for publication a revised
version of their paper in a Pubmed-listed journal to be announced.
DILS 2014 invites three types of papers:
- Full research papers (up to 15 pages)
- Short research papers (8 pages)
- Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages).
Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates and submitted using the
EasyChair site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2014.
There will be a separate call at a later submission deadline for poster and
demonstration papers.
Program Committee Chairs
- Helena Galhardas, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
- Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
Program Committee:
- Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Kenneth J Barker, IBM, USA
- Olivier Bodenreider, NIH, USA
- João Carriço, IMM, Portugal
- James Cimino, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Claudine Chaouiya, IGC, Portugal
- Luis Pedro Coelho, EMBL, Germany
- Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
- Francisco Couto, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Alexandre Francisco, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Portugal
- Juliana Freire, NYU-Poly, USA
- Christine Froidevaux, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
- Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho, USA
- Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Toralf Kirsten, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Birgitta König-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
- Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
- Adam Lee, University of Maryland and National Library of Medicine, USA
- Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, USA
- Sara Madeira, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Portugal
- Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
- Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
- Cédric Prusky, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxemburg
- Uwe Scholz, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
- Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
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