From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Sep 19 01:17:00 2003 Return-Path: X-Original-To: bionews-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B5D7D394 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:17:00 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: bionews-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07EA7D4C1 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:16:59 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id 23F487D394; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:16:58 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E6A7D107 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:05:27 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 1F66B7D21F; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:05:25 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: hong@informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Do Hong Hai) Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: DILS2004 CFP: Data Integration in the Life Sciences Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: <3F5762D6.2080409@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-To: bionews@net.bio.net X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC82F7D107 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:05:23 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de (v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.1.26]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB44D7D21F for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:05:21 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138D437804 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:05:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Received: from v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (v1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10588-03 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:05:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Received: from server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de (server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.1.1]) by v1.rz.uni-leipzig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECD237849 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:05:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Received: from informatik.uni-leipzig.de (pc27.izbi.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.75.27]) by server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A2718 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:05:11 +0200 (METDST) X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-To: bionews@net.bio.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at v1-ul Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:16:58 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk 1st CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2004) University of Leipzig, Germany March 25-26, 2004 http://izbi.uni-leipzig.de/dils04 Deadline Nov. 30, 2004 Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS -------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE New advances in life sciences, e.g. molecular biology, biodiversity, drug discovery and medical research, increasingly depend on bioinformatics methods to manage and analyze vast amounts of highly diverse data. The volume of data is increasing at an unprecedented pace, fueled by world-wide research activities producing publicly available data, and new technologies, e.g. high-throughput devices such as microarrays. Thus, data mining and analysis require comprehensive integration of heterogeneous data, that is typically distributed across many data sources on the web and often structured only to a limited extent. Despite new interoperability technologies such as XML and web services, data integration is a highly difficult and still largely manual task, especially due to the high degree of semantic heterogeneity and varying data quality as well as specific application requirements. DILS 2004 aims at providing a new forum for presenting novel research results and assessing the state of the art in the field of data integration for life sciences. It addresses researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge on this highly important bioinformatics subject. In an effort to bring together academics and industrial practitioners, we solicit both research papers and application / experience papers. It is planned to publish accepted papers by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Challenges for data integration in life sciences * Architectures for data integration in life sciences * Ontology-based data integration and analysis * Metadata and annotation management * Data quality and data cleaning * Tool integration and experimental workflows * Evaluation of data integration approaches in life sciences * Data integration for specific applications * Prototypes and commercial solutions PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers. All submitted papers will be peer-refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be available at the workshop. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines under: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html All submissions will be handled electronically. Please send your submissions in PDF format to dils04@izbi.uni-leipzig.de Please also visit the workshop website for further information http://izbi.uni-leipzig.de/dils04 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: November 30, 2003 Author notification: January 8, 2004 Camera-ready due: January 28, 2004 Workshop date: March 25-26, 2004 WORKSHOP CHAIR Erhard Rahm, Univ. of Leipzig PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Peter Gray, Univ. of Aberdeen Barbara Heller, Univ. of Leipzig Ralf Hofestaedt, Univ. of Bielefeld Jessie Kennedy, Napier Univ. Edinburgh Ulf Leser, HU Berlin Sergey Melnik, Microsoft Research Peter Mork, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Felix Naumann, HU Berlin Norman Paton, Univ. of Manchester Erhard Rahm, Univ. of Leipzig Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau Steffen Schulze-Kremer, FU Berlin Robert Stevens, Univ. of Manchester Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore ORGANIZATION The workshop is organized by the Bioinformatics centre of the University of Leipzig (www.izbi.de). ------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm Univ. Leipzig Institut für Informatik Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig Phone: +49-341-97 32221 Fax: +49-341-97 32209 http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de --- .