[Apologies for cross-posting] UPDATES: - Deadline for submission has been extented to ** JUNE 22 ** - Abstracts for poster presentations can be submitted until ** JULY 13 ** Last 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 deadlines: Extended abstracts: June 22 Posters: July 13 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 OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS We invite you to submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages in PDF format describing new or very recently published results. Each extended abstract must be submitted by *June 22 2014* (extended) electronically via the Easychair submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb2014 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. SUBMISSIONS OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS We invite you also to apply for poster presentations on topics of relevance to the workshop. Each poster presentation should be described in a 1 page summary and should be submitted by July 13, 2014 via the Easychair submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb2014 KEY DATES - Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: ** June 22, 2014 ** - Deadline for submission of poster presentations: July 13, 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 Edinburgh, 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)