****CALL FOR PAPERS****** 15th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'16) August 14 2016 San Francisco, USA http://home.biokdd.org/biokdd16/ http://www.facebook.com/Biokdd The goal of the 16th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'16) is to encourage KDD researchers to tackle the numerous challenges of mining and learning in Bioinformatics, Biomedical and Health Informatics. Thus this year, the workshop will feature the theme of “Latest Advances of Mining and Learning in Bioinformatics, Biomedical and Health Informatics”. 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 together with innovative applications in biomedical and health informatics. The key goal is thus to build accurate predictive or descriptive models from data enabling either novel discoveries in basic biology and medicine or an effective use of the latest advances of data mining in healthcare. We encourage papers that propose novel data mining techniques for areas including but not limited to * Predictive modeling for complex phenotypes from large-scale biological data * Discovery of biological networks and pathways underlying biological processes and diseases * Processing of new/next-generation sequencing (NGS) data * Discovery of genotype-phenotype associations * Biomarker discovery in clinical and genomic data * Data analytics for clinical informatics * Data integration for biomedical applications * 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 and Visual analytics for biomedical data * Predictive modeling for personalized treatment * Semantic web and ontology in Biomedicine * Privacy and security issues in genomics and healthcare * Text mining for biomedical literature and clinical notes * Information retrieval for healthcare and Biomedical applications * Biomedical signal analysis and processing * Intelligent medical data management * Collaboration technologies for biomedicine * Social networks for biomedicine **Important Dates** May 27th, 2016 Deadline for Submission of Papers June 13th, 2016 Notification of Acceptance; Workshop Registration Open June 30th, 2016 Submission of Camera-ready Papers August 14th, 2016 Workshop Presentation All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time. **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. Paper should be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biokdd2016 Papers will be published in the webpage. A selection of accepted papers will also be invited to be submitted to a special issue 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> Chandan K. Reddy, Wayne State University, USA <reddy@cs.wayne.edu> General Chairs: Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, <zaki@cs.rpi.edu> Jake Y. Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, <jakechen@iupui.edu>