MLSB 2011 - MLSB11, the Fifth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology

MLSB 2011: Call for Papers on New and Recently Published Results

http://mlsb11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/index.html

MLSB11, the Fifth International Workshop on Machine Learning in
Systems Biology will be held in Vienna, Austria on July 20-21, 2011.
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.

The Workshop is organized as "Satellite Meeting" of the 19th Annual
International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
(ISMB) and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB).

We invite you to submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages
describing new or recently published (2011) results, 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=mlsb11

The extended abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific programme
committee. They 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, distributed in hardcopy form
to participants at the conference, and will be made publicly available
on the conference web site after the conference. However, the book of
abstracts will not be published and the extended abstracts will not
constitute a formal publication.

Topics

We encourage submissions bringing forward methods for discovering
complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures)
and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis. A non-exhaustive
list of topics suitable for this workshop are:

Methods

Machine Learning Algorithms
Bayesian Methods
Data integration/fusion
Feature/subspace selection
Clustering Metabolic pathway modeling
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
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

MLSB2011 Chairs

Stefan Kramer Technische Universität München
Neil Lawrence University of Sheffield

Scientific Program Committee

Florence d'Alché-Buc (University of Evry, France)
Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Paolo Frasconi (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Pierre Geurts (University of Liège, Belgium)
Dirk Husmeier (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, UK)
Lars Kaderali (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Samuel Kaski (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Ross King (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Stefan Kramer (TU München, Germany)
Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield, UK)
Elena Marchiori (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Yves Moreau (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Sach Mukherjee (University of Warwick, UK) *
Mahesan Niranjan (University of Southampton, UK)
John Pinney (Imperial College London , UK)
Gunnar Rätsch (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck
Society, Germany) *
Magnus Rattray (University of Manchester, UK) *
Simon Rogers (University of Glasgow, UK)
Juho Rousu (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Céline Rouveirol (University of Paris XIII, France)
Yvan Saeys (University of Gent, Belgium)
Guido Sanguinetti (University of Sheffield/University of Edinburgh, UK)
Peter Sykacek (BOKU University, Austria)
Fabian Theis (TU München, Germany)
Ljupco Todorovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) *
Koji Tsuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology, Japan)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines, France)
Louis Wehenkel (University of Liège, Belgium)
Filip Zelezny (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

* to be confirmed

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