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****CALL FOR PAPERS****

15th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'15)
August 10 2015
Sydney, Australia

http://home.biokdd.org/biokdd15/
http://www.facebook.com/Biokdd

The goal of the 15th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'15) is to encourage KDD researchers to take on the numerous challenges that Bioinformatics offers. This year, the workshop will feature the theme of “Knowledge Discovery on Complex Biological and Medical Data”. This field focuses on the use of data mining and machine learning approaches for the analysis of the large amount of heterogeneous complex biological and medical data being generated. The goal here is to build accurate predictive or descriptive models from these data enabling novel discoveries in basic biology and medicine.

We encourage papers that propose novel data mining techniques for areas including but not limited to:

* Building predictive models for complex phenotypes from large-scale biological data
* Discovering biological networks and pathways underlying biological processes and diseases
* Processing of new/next-generation sequencing (NGS) data for genome structural variation analysis, discovery of biomarkers and mutations, and disease risk assessment
* Discovery of genotype-phenotype associations
* Novel methods and frameworks for mining and integrating big biological data
* Comparative genomics
* Metagenome analysis using sequencing data
* RNA-seq and microarray-based gene expression analysis
* Genome-wide analysis of non-coding RNAs
* Genome-wide regulatory motif discovery
* Structural bioinformatics
* Correlating NGS with proteomics data analysis
* Functional annotation of genes and proteins
* Cheminformatics
* Special biological data management techniques
* Information visualization techniques for biological data
* Semantic web and ontology-driven data integration methods
* Privacy and security issues in mining genomic databases


**Important Dates**

June 5th, 2015          Deadline for Submission of Papers
June 30th, 2015         Notification of Acceptance; Workshop Registration Open
July 10th, 2015         Submission of Camera-ready Papers
August 10th, 2015       Workshop Presentation

**Submissions**

Papers should be at most 10 pages long, single-spaced, in font size 10 or larger with one-inch margins on all sides. Using the ACM Proceedings Format is highly recommended. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair (see webpage for details).

Papers will be published in the webpage. A selection of accepted papers will also be invited to be submitted to a special section of the reputed IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

**Workshop Organizers**

Program Chairs:

Sara C. Madeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, sara.madeira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Jieping Ye, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, jpye@umich.edu

General Chairs:
Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  zaki@cs.rpi.edu
Jake Y. Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, jakechen@iupui.edu