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International Workshop on Knowledge Systems in Bioinformatics (KSinBIT 2006)

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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 (at) cbs.curtin.edu.au

  • Bart De Moor
ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
bart.demoor (at) esat.kuleuven.be

  • Yves Moreau
ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
yves.moreau (at) esat.kuleuven.be

  • Arek Kasprzyk
European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
arek (at) 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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