[Apologies for cross-posting] 2nd Call for contributions 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. Submission deadline: *** June 11, 2014 *** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MLSB14, the Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology, is a workshop of the ECCB 2014 conference. It aims to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology by bringing together method developers and experimentalists. We are soliciting submissions bringing forward methods for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis Please see the workshop website http://www.mlsb.cc for more details. SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS We invite you to submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages in PDF format describing new or very recently published results. Submissions will be reviewed by the scientific programme committee. They will be selected for oral or poster presentation according to their originality and relevance to the workshop topics. KEY DATES Submission deadline: June 11, 2014 Author notification: July 15, 2014 Early registration deadline ECCB14: August 2, 2014 Workshop: September 6-7, 2014 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Pierre Baldi, UCI University, California, USA Karsten Borgwardt, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany CONTACT For further information, please contact chairsmlsb2014@gmail.com CHAIRS Florence d'Alché-Buc (University of Evry, France) Pierre Geurts (University of Liege, Belgium) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Florence d'Alché-Buc (University of Evry, France) Markus Heinonen (University of Evry, France) Pierre Geurts (University of Liege, Belgium) Vân Anh Huynh-Thu (University of Edinburgh, UK) Nizar Touleimat (Centre National de génotypage, CEA, Evry, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Florence d'Alché-Buc (University of Evry, France) Chloé-Agathe Azencott (CBIO, Mines ParisTech, Institut Curie, INSERM, France) Karsten Borgwardt (MPI Tubingen, Germany) Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Mohamed Elati (Universite d'Evry, France) Pierre Geurts (University of Liège, Belgium) Markus Heinonen (University of Evry, France) Van Anh Huynh-Thu (University of Edimburgh, UK) Ross King (Aberystwyth University, UK) Stefan Kramer (University of Mainz, Germany) Yves Moreau (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Sach Mukherjee (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands) Mahesan Niranjan (University of Southampton, UK) Uwe Ohler (Duke University, USA) John Pinney (Imperial College London, UK) Simon Rogers (University of Glasgow, UK) Juho Rousu (University of Helsinki, Finland) Yvan Saeys (University of Ghent, Belgium) Peter Sykacek (BOKU University, Austria) Nizar Touleimat (Centre National de Genotypage, CEA, France) Koji Tsuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France) Filip Zelezny (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)