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- Machine Learning in Systems Biology
Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
September 5-6, 2009
- Sponsoring Organization: Josef Stefan Institute (IJS)
- Type of Event: Workshop
- Contact: Juho Rousu, PO Box 68, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
- Telephone: +358 9 191 51230
- Email: juho.rousu{at}cs.helsinki.fi
Website: http://mlsb09.ijs.si/
- Subjects/Keywords: machine learning, systems biology, bioinformatics
- Description: OBJECTIVE
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization
between the research in machine learning methods and their
applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical
questions) by bringing together method developers and
experimentalists. We encourage submissions bringing forward methods
for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks,
molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis.
LOCATION AND CO-LOCATION
The workshop will take place 5-6 September 2009 at the Jozef Stefan
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will immediately precede ECML PKDD
2009, taking place 7-11 September 2009 in Bled, Slovenia (Bled is 30
miles from Ljubljana, transport will be organized).
SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS
We invite you to submit an extended abstract of maximum 8 pages,
formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. Each extended abstract must be submitted online via the Easychair
submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb09
The extended abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific programme
committee. The papers will be selected for oral or poster presentation
according to their originality and relevance to the workshop topics.
Electronic versions of the extended abstracts will be accessible to the
participants prior to the conference and will be made publicly available
on the conference web site after the conference.
The accepted papers will be published in Journal of Machine Learning
(JMLR) Workshop and Conference Proceedings (http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/).
KEY DATES
12 June : extended deadline for submission of extended abstracts for oral presentation
10 July: notification for oral presentations
03 August: deadline for submission of abstracts for poster presentations
10 August: notification for posters & camera ready versions due
5-6 September: workshop
TOPICS
A non-exhaustive list of topics suitable for this workshop is given
below:
Methods
Machine learning algorithms
Bayesian methods
Data integration/fusion
Feature/subspace selection
Clustering
Biclustering/association rules
Kernel methods
Probabilistic inference
Structured output prediction
Systems identification
Graph inference, completion, smoothing
Semi-supervised learning
Applications
Sequence annotation
Gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation
Inference of gene regulation networks
Gene prediction and whole genome association studies
Metabolic pathway modeling
Signaling networks
Systems biology approaches to biomarker identification
Rational drug design methods
Metabolic reconstruction
Protein function and structure prediction
Protein-protein interaction networks
Synthetic biology
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
Ross D. King, Aberystwyth University, UK
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
Diego di Bernardo, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
MLSB09 PROGRAM CHAIRS
Sašo Džeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pierre Geurts, Department of EE and CS & GIGA-Research, University of
Liège, Belgium
Juho Rousu, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki,
Finland
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Florence d'Alché-Buc, University of Evry, France
Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Paolo Frasconi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Cesare Furlanello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Pierre Geurts, University of Liège, Belgium
Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
Dirk Husmeier, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, UK
Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Ross D. King, Aberystwyth University, UK
Neil Lawrence, University of Manchester, UK
Elena Marchiori, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yves Moreau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
Gunnar Rätsch, FML, Max Planck Society, Tübingen
Juho Rousu, University of Helsinki, Finland
Céline Rouveirol, University of Paris XIII, France
Yvan Saeys, University of Gent, Belgium
Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK
Ljupco Todorovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Koji Tsuda, Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen
Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines, France
Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège, Belgium
Jean-Daniel Zucker, University of Paris XIII, France
Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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