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International Workshop on <b>Knowledge Systems in Bioinformatics (KSinBIT 2006)</b><br>
Montpellier, France, 29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006<br>
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In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06)<br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf</a></font></u><br>
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Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag<br>
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<b>Call for papers</b><br>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
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<li>Medical and biological ontologies and taxonomies
</li><li>Biomedical data management
</li><li>Data source integration
</li><li>Conceptual integration through visualization
</li><li>Semantic web applications in bioinformatics
</li><li>Bioinformatics web services
</li><li>Ontology driven mediation
</li><li><font color="#000000">Automated functional annotation using ontologies</font>
</li><li>Automated knowledge discovery
</li><li>In silico hypthesis testing
</li><li><font color="#000000">Middleware for in silico experimentation</font>
</li><li><font color="#000000">Workflow management in bioinformatics</font>
</li><li><font color="#000000">…</font><br></li></ul>
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<b>Submission requirements</b><br>
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Papers submitted to KSinBIT 2006 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.<br>
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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:
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The paper submission site is located at:<br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ksinbit/2006/papers" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ksinbit/2006/papers</a></font>
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Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.<br>
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<b>Important dates</b><br>
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Paper Submission Deadline<br>
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June 30, 2006<br>
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Notification of Acceptance<br>
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August 10, 2006<br>
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Camera Ready Due<br>
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August 20, 2006<br>
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OTM Conferences<br>
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October 29 - November 3, 2006<br>
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<b>Program chairs</b><br>
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<li><b>Maja Hadzic</b>
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<font color="#000000">Centre for Extended Enterprise and Business Intelligence</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia</font><br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:hadzicm@cbs.curtin.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hadzicm@cbs.curtin.edu.au</a></font></u><br>
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<li><b>Bart De Moor</b>
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ESAT-SCD<br>
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium<br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:bart.demoor@esat.kuleuven.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bart.demoor@esat.kuleuven.be</a></font></u><br>
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<li><b>Yves Moreau</b>
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ESAT-SCD<br>
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium<br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:yves.moreau@esat.kuleuven.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">yves.moreau@esat.kuleuven.be</a></font></u><br>
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<li><b>Arek Kasprzyk</b>
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European Bioinformatics Institute<br>
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom<br>
<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:arek@ebi.ac.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">arek@ebi.ac.uk</a></font></u><br>
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<b>Program committee members</b><br>
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To be announced.<br>
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<b>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).</b><br>
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VUB-StarLab:<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/</a></font></u><br>
KULeuven-ESAT-SCD:<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/scd/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/scd/</a></font></u><br>
BioScope-IT:<u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.bioscope-it.be/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.bioscope-it.be</a></font></u><br></div>
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