=========================== LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =========================== Workshop BioTM-2010 Advances in Bio Text Mining May 10-11, 2010, Ghent, Belgium http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/index.html ============================================================ REGISTRATION DEADLINE : May 1st 2010 ============================================================ The program of the workshop includes: - an extensive tutorial on Bio Text Mining by Martin Krallinger (CNIO, Spain) - invited talks by leading scientists in the field: Sampo Pyysalo (University of Tokyo, Japan) Kevin Cohen (Center for Computational Pharmacology and The MITRE Corporation, USA) Filip Ginter (University of Turku, Finland) - invited talks by experienced scientists from industry: Jean-Marc Neefs (Janssen Pharmaceuticals) Luc Dehaspe and Maté Ongenaert (Oncomethylome) ============================================================ Text mining has become indispensible in many biological and biomedical sciences. Having to keep up with an increasing number of publications, text mining techniques enable retrieval and analysis of large amounts of documents in a fully automated fashion. They allow for extraction of facts described in the literature that have not yet been recorded in databases, thus providing a necessary tool to obtain a complete overview of all available knowledge. Recently, the application of text mining and natural language processing techniques to the biological and medical sciences has recieved increasing interest. In addition to many new workshops and conferences arising in this domain, recently also a number of community-wide tasks were conducted to benchmark text mining techniques on specific challenges (e.g. BioCreative, BioNLP Shared Task, ...). By discussing the latest developments and potentially new applications in text mining amongst scientists in both academia and industry, this workshop aims to provide a broad view on text mining tools in biology and biomedicine. We are reaching out to a broad public, including researchers with an interest in text mining but with little or no experience in this domain. To this end, the workshop will start with an extensive tutorial on text mining in the bio-sciences, providing sufficient background knowledge for novices. Next, a number of keynote talks will be given by leading scientists, presenting the latest advances in the field. Furthermore, selected abstracts will be presented during a flash presentation session, as well as a poster session during the coffee and lunch breaks. Finally, we plan on having a round-table discussion about the broader applicability of text-mining tools in the biological sciences, trying to bridge the gap between theoretical algorithms and experimental work. ORGANISATION / PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sofie Van Landeghem Yvan Saeys Thomas Abeel Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology Ghent University Belgium Walter Daelemans Roser Morante Vincent Van Asch CLiPS - Text Mining Group Faculty of Arts University of Antwerp Belgium -- ================================================================== Dr. Yvan Saeys, PhD DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Fax:32 (0)9 331 38 09 BIOINFORMATICS TEAM Tel:32 (0)9 331 36 95 GHENT UNIVERSITY, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie VIB mailto:yvan.saeys@ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ http://www.psb.ugent.be/~yvsae/ ==================================================================