DILS 2014 - 10th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences

The DILS conference aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in data integration and 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 challenges and technical solutions to address data integration and management in the life sciences. In particular, the increasing availability of Big Data, coming from high-throughput analytical techniques, large clinical data repositories, biomedical literature and online resources, offers exciting opportunities and challenges to researchers.
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 biological 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 (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.
Important dates
February 7, 2014: Abstract submission deadline
February 14,2014: Paper submission deadline
April 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
May 3, 2014: Camera-ready copy due
July 17-18, 2014: Conference
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor and practical relevance DILS 2014 invites three types of papers:
Full research papers (up to 15 pages)
Short research papers (8 pages)
Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages).
Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates and submitted using the EasyChair site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils20....
Authors will also be invited at a later deadline to submit poster and demonstration papers. The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics.
The authors of the best papers will be recognized at the conference and will be eligible for publication in a Pubmed-listed journal to be announced.
Program Committee Chairs
Helena Galhardas, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Portugal
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
Program Committee
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Kenneth J Barker, IBM, USA
Olivier Bodenreider, NIH, USA
João Carriço, IMM, Portugal
Claudine Chaouiya, IGC, Portugal
James Cimino, National Library of Medicine, USA
Luis Pedro Coelho, EMBL, Germany
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
Francisco Couto, Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alexandre Francisco, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Portugal
Juliana Freire, NYU-Poly, USA
Christine Froidevaux, LRI University of Paris-Sud 11, France
Hasan Jamil, University of Idaho, USA
Birgitta König-Ries, Institut für Informatik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Toralf Kirsten, University of Leipzig, Germany
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
Adam Lee, University of Maryland and National Library of Medicine, USA
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, USA
Sara Madeira, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Portugal
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Cédric Prusky, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxemburg
Uwe Scholz, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Steering Committee
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA