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ICDM-2010 Workshop
Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare

December 13, 2010, Sydney, Australia

Workshop Co-Chairs:Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng
http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html

1. Introduction

Scientists in biology and healthcare are facing a growing flood of biological and clinical data that they need to digest in their research. However, their ability to generate large amounts of biological and clinical data may soon surpass their capacity to analyze and make sense of the data generated in a timely fashion. As scientists begin to translate their genomic research from bench to bedside, meaningful observations and discoveries will have to be drawn from diverse data such as DNA microarrays, protein sequences, protein-protein interactions, biological pathways, bio-images, electronic medical records, and biomedical literature.

Data mining is well positioned to help the biologists and clinicians draw meaningful observations and discoveries from the vast array of biomedical data that are now available for analysis. However, there are challenges to be addressed. For example, the algorithms need to be able to handle a high level of noise and incompleteness in the data (e.g. protein interactions have high false positive and false negative rates), process computationally intensive tasks effectively (e.g. large scale interaction graph mining), address privacy issues (e.g. patients medical records), and integrate multiple heterogeneous data sources.

The mission of this workshop is to disseminate the latest research challenges, results, and practice of novel data mining approaches in biology and healthcare. We seek submissions of cross-disciplinary research works using data mining and machine learning techniques (data cleansing, data integration, data selection, data transformation, knowledge representation, association mining, clustering, classification, semi-supervised learning, regression, graph mining, text mining, outlier detections, and visualization) to address the challenging issues in biological and clinical data analysis. In addition to bioinformatics applications for computational biology problems, we also seek submissions that describe applications of data mining techniques in healthcare (e.g. disease diagnosis & prognostics, drug targets identification, biological markers detection, bio-image analysis, disease pathway analysis, and medical data mining). We especially welcome submissions that highlight new data mining problems and algorithms that are inspired by the emerging trend of translational research in post-genome computational biology and healthcare.

2. The topics of interest

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

3. Important Dates
    July 23, 2010:
    September 20, 2010:
    October 11, 2010:
    December 13, 2010:

    Due date for paper submission
    Notification of paper acceptance
    Camera-ready versions of accepted papers
    Workshop

4. Submissions

Paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, which is the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A double blind reviewing process will be adopted. Authors should therefore avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. You are strongly encouraged to print and double check your PDF file before its submission, especially if your paper contains Asian/European language symbols (such as Chinese/Korean characters or English letters with European fonts). All papers should be submitted through the ICDM Workshop Submission Site.

Selected papers will be invited to submit journal versions to the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics.

5. PC members

Zhang Aidong, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Jonathan Arthur, The University of Sydney, Australia
Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Jin Chen, Michigan State University, USA
James Cimino, National Library of Medicine, USA
Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
Honnian Chua, Harvard University, USA
Juan Cui, University of Georgia, USA
Yang Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Xiaoxu Han, Eastern Michigan University, USA
David Hansen, Australian e-Health Research Centre, Australia
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Raphael Isokpehi, Jackson State University, USA
Haiquan Li, University of Chicago, USA
Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada
Asif Javed, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada
Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia
Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan
George Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Mark A. Ragan, The University of Queensland, Australia
Sean Mooney, Indiana University, USA
Raul Rabadan, Columbia University, USA
Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Indra Neil Sarkar, University of Vermont, USA
Ambuj K Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain
Jason T.L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA