-- In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Systems Biology and the 4th Translational Bioinformatics Conference (ISB/TBC 2014)

When:  Oct. 25, 2014

Where: Qingdao, China

Web:

·        https://sites.google.com/site/tbci2014workshop/

·        http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=571754&do=blog&quickforward=1&id=814057

Mining biological, biomedical, and health data is an emerging research area at the intersection between biology and data mining. As next generation sequencing data, electronic medical record, and other large-scale biological data has been accumulated exponentially in recent years, theinformatics field is undergoing an unprecedented era with countless novel breakthroughs aiming to deal with Big Data mining problems. Translational research that bridges the latest multimodal measurement technologies with large amounts of electronic healthcare data is in great needs. This workshop aims to provide a forum for data miners, informaticians and clinical researchers to share novel findings on their latest investigations inapplying informatics techniques to biomedical and healthcare data.

This workshop will aim to provide research methodologies and tools on managing,analyzing, visualizing, and extracting information from large, diverse,complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed biological, biomedical and healthydata sets. It will provide references to researchers/practitioners/students who participate the main conference or other workshops in bioinformatics, datamining, and healthcare fields.

Topics of Interest

• Integrative analysis of Biological and clinical data

• Systems Biology

• Computational genetics, genomics and proteomics

• Application  of data mining approaches in personalized medicine

• Network Biology

• Biomarker discovery

• Topic detection and information extraction in Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

• Computational drug discovery

• Temporal data management in EMR

• Longitudinal analysis of clinical notes and surveys

• Evidence-based  medicine

• Medical image data mining

• Computer-aided detection and diagnosis

• Data preprocessing and cleansing to deal with noise and missing data in medical data

• Pharmacogenomics

   Important Dates

•      September 5, 2014: Due date for workshop papers submission

•      September 20, 2014: Notification of paper decision to authors

•      September 25, 2014: Camera-ready of accepted papers

•      October 25, 2014: Workshop

   Online Submission

• Online Submission System
  

   Submission Requirements

• All submissions  will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of their contributions.

• Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or  submitting previously published papers is not allowed.

• The papers should be written in English. Full papers are limited to 10 pages with double columns, including title, abstract, figures, tables, text and bibliography.

• While  submitting your manuscripts, please make sure it has included the  following information:

• Title  of the paper

• Abstract  of the paper (within 400 words)

• Name(s)  and affiliation(s) of the authors

• Postal address and e-mail address of the authors

• Full manuscript for paper submission (not required for poster and highlight      track)

• Only on-line submissions (in ps or pdf formats) are acceptable.

• https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbtbc2014

• At least one author is required to register and present the paper in the    conference. Please note that only one paper can be published in proceedings for one registration.

• After the full length proceeding papers are accepted, we will work with the BioData Mining editors and reviewers to invite    selected papers for extension to be included in a special issue in BioData Mining with impact factor 1.76 and PubMed index (http://www.biodatamining.org/).

 Organizer

• Qian Zhu, PhD, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of  Medicine, USA

• Yuji Zhang, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

• Hongfang Liu, PhD, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of  Medicine, USA

• Liwei Wang, MD, Department of Medical Informatics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, China

Contacts for questions

• Qian Zhu, zhuqianzq@gmail.com 

• Liwei Wang, wlw@jlu.edu.cn