[Apologies for cross-postings] Call for Participation and Poster Presentation MLSB14, the eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology http://www.mlsb.cc Organized in conjunction with ECCB 2014 Strasbourg, France, September 6-7, 2014. --- We invite you to join us for the eighth installment of Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB) 2014, which will be held as a 2-day ECCB workshop on September 6 and 7 in Strasbourg, France The full program of MLSB 2014 can be found online at http://mlsb.cc The highlights of MLSB 2014 include five invited talks by * Pierre Baldi, UCI University, California, USA Carbon-Based Computing Vs Silicon-Based Computing: A New Theory of Circadian Rhythms Abstract * Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Department of Computational Molecular Medecine, IBE, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany Title to be announced * Karsten Borgwardt, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), ETH Zürich Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine Abstract * Jean-Loup Faulon, IBSS, CNRS, Genopole, University of Evry, France Using Machine Learning in Synthetic Biology: The Design-Build-Test and Learn cycle Abstract * Nicola Segata, Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Italy Machine learning challenges in computational meta'omics One page abstract can still be submitted through the easychair submission system until August, 15 for poster presentation at the workshop: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb2014 Please note that the early registration deadline for MLSB/ECCB is August 1, 2014 (for registration visit http://www.eccb14.org/registration). We are looking forward to meeting you in Strasbourg! Best regards, Florence d'Alché-Buc and Pierre Geurts