DILS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2012)

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Category DILS 2012

Deadline: February 20, 2012 | Date: June 28, 2012-June 29, 2012

Venue/Country: University of Maryland, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-11-24 15:09:10 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

https://sites.google.com/site/webdils2012/

Applications of data integration in the life sciences have started to provide significant results. For example, the eMERGE Network has recently demonstrated that combining phenotype information extracted from electronic medical records with genotype information in order to study the relationship between genome-wide genetic variation and common human traits is a viable and cost-effective alternative to the traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

Of course, such studies leverage the foundational work of the past decade on biomedical data integration (architectures, data models, ontologies, privacy, etc), which had paved the way for life sciences infrastructures, such as ELIXIR, the open source Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) platform, and federated query tools, such as the Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE).

The increasing availability of "big data", coming from high-throughput analytical techniques, large clinical data repositories, the biomedical literature and online resources, offers exciting opportunities to researchers, but also poses new integration challenges.

DILS 2012 is the 8th in a series on international conferences that aim at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the life sciences. Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering are invited to share their knowledge and experience.

Topics of Interest

DILS provides a forum for the discussion of various aspects of data integration in the life sciences, including challenges and technical solutions to address them, as well as applications to biomedical problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences

Query processing and optimization for biological data

Biological data sharing and update propagation

Query formulation assistance for scientists

Modeling of life sciences data

Biomedical data integration issues in eScience

Laboratory information management systems in biology (including workflow systems)

Quality assurance in integrated data repositories

Biomedical metadata management (including provenance)

Mining integrated life sciences data and text resources

Standards for biomedical data integration and annotation

Scientific results arising from innovative data integration solutions

Exposing biomedical data for integration purposes (APIs, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints)

Creation and use of clinical data repositories

Data integration in clinical and translational research

Integration of genotypic and phenotypic data

Challenges and opportunities with "big data" in the life sciences

Ethical, legal and social issues with biomedical data integration

Submission site

Please submit your paper using the DILS 2012 EasyChair site:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2012

Important dates

Abstract submission: February 13, 2012 (for all research papers)

Research papers due: February 20, 2012

Author notification: March 19, 2012

Poster/demo due: April 2, 2012

Camera-ready copy due: April 9, 2012

Conference: June 28-29, 2012

PC chairs

Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA

Keynote speakers (TBA)

Previous DILS proceedings (LNCS/LNBI, Springer Verlag)

DILS 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

DILS 2009, Manchester, UK

DILS 2008, Evry, France

DILS 2007, Philadelphia, USA

DILS 2006, Hinxton Cambridge, UK

DILS 2005, San Diego, USA

DILS 2004, Leipzig, Germany