KSDP 2013 - IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Support for Deep Phenotyping

The systematic description of variation has gained increasing importance since the discovery of the causal relationship between a genotype placed in a certain environment and a phenotype. The triumvirate connection of a phenotype, genotype and its environment, plays an important role to enhance our knowledge in areas such as the origins of human genetic disorders, the evolution of species, species diversity and adaptability to environmental change. Effective use of phenotype data requires researchers to achieve a common mindset and build a shared conceptual view on the definition, representation and interoperability of phenotypes.
With the need for interoperability between large-scale experimental and clinical data sets we assert that knowledge support for Deep Phenotyping is currently of a particular relevance, yet it has not been tackled as a well-defined field in itself. Various research activities that attempt to understand the underlying domain knowledge exist, but they are rather restrictively applied and not very well synchronized. In this workshop we propose to trigger a comprehensive and coherent approach to studying (and ultimately facilitating) the process of knowledge acquisition and support for Deep Phenotyping by bringing together researchers and practitioners that include but are not limited to the following fields:
Computational biology
Genomics, clinical genetics, pharmacogenomics, healthcare
Text/Data mining and knowledge discovery
Knowledge representation and ontology engineering