DILS 2014 - CFP‏

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10 International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences

DILS 2014 - http://dils2014.inesc-id.pt

Lisbon, Portugal
July 17-18, 2014
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SCOPE:

The DILS conference aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and
innovation in research and development in data integration and
management for the life sciences. Researchers and professionals
from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering are invited to
share their knowledge and experience.


KEY 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


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
- 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.


Program Committee Chairs:

Helena Galhardas, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, 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, Institut für Informatik
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

Steering Committee:

Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany




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Pedro T. Monteiro
Research Fellow, KDBIO group
INESC-ID, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~ptgm/