ECML/PKDD Workshop on Statistical and Relational learning in Bioinformatics Friday, September 19th, 2008 Antwerp, Belgium http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/StReBio MOTIVATION There is an increasing interest for structured data in the machine learning community as shown by the growing number of dedicated Conferences and Workshops (MLG, SRL, ILP, MRDM). Bioinformatics is an application domain of increasing popularity where information is naturally represented in terms of relations between (possibly heterogeneous) objects. The Workshop on Relational Learning in Bioinformatics focuses on learning methods for structured biological data (relational data, graphs, logic based descriptions, etc) in the presence of uncertainty (probabilistic logic models, Bayesian methods, etc). These methods are well-suited for this application area, since the available data is highly complex and tends to have a significant amount of missing information. SCOPE The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both the field of relational learning, machine learning over structured data and biology. We therefore invite submissions that describe new methods, problem settings, applications and models, exploiting structured data in the field of biology. Methods include, but are not restricted to * Statistical Relational Learning * Relational Probabilistic Models * Inductive Logic Programming * Multi-relational Data Mining * Graph Methods The data, structures or models considered can include but are not limited to * Sequences (DNA, RNA, protein) * Pathways (chemical, metabolic, mutation, interaction pathways) * 2D, 3D structures of proteins, RNA * Chemical structures (e.g. QSAR, especially regarding interaction of compounds with proteins) * Evolutionary relations (phylogeny, homology relations) * Ontologies integration (gene, enzyme, protein function ontologies) * Large networks (regulatory, co-expression, interaction, and metabolic networks) * Concept graphs (including compounds, articles, authors, references) SUBMISSIONS We invite both * regular papers describing contributions to the field and * problem statements, explaining relevant but not yet adequately solved problems, in terms which are clear for the computer scientist. Important Dates: * Paper deadline: June 16 * Notifications of Acceptance: July 16 * Final versions: August 14 More information can be found at the workshop website http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/StReBio