[ ARCHIVE ] International Workshop on Knowledge Systems in Bioinformatics (KSinBIT'06)

Oct 29, 2006
Montpellier, France

Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS 

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 were 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

Topics of interest may include one or more of the following (but are not limited to) themes;

  • 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


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Chairs

Maja Hadzic
Centre for Extended Enterprise and Business Intelligence
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
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Bart De Moor
ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Yves Moreau
ESAT-SCD
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Arek Kasprzyk
European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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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>