DILS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2012)

Eighth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2012)

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Applications of data integration in the life sciences have started to provide significant results. For example, the eMERGE Network has recently demonstrated that combining phenotype information extracted from electronic medical records with genotype information in order to study the relationship between genome-wide genetic variation and common human traits is a viable and cost-effective alternative to the traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

Of course, such studies leverage the foundational work of the past decade on biomedical data integration (architectures, data models, ontologies, privacy, etc), which had paved the way for life sciences infrastructures, such as ELIXIR, the open source Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) platform, and federated query tools, such as the Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE).

The increasing availability of "big data", coming from high-throughput analytical techniques, large clinical data repositories, the biomedical literature and online resources, offers exciting opportunities to researchers, but also poses new integration challenges.

DILS 2012 is the 8th in a series on international conferences that aim at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data 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 various aspects of data integration in the life sciences, including challenges and technical solutions to address them, as well as applications to biomedical problems. 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 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 purposes (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
Submission site

Please submit your paper using the DILS 2012 EasyChair site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils201...

Important dates

Abstract submission: February 13, 2012 (for all research papers)
Research papers due: February 20, 2012
Author notification: March 19, 2012
Poster/demo due: April 2, 2012
Camera-ready copy due: April 9, 2012
Conference: June 28-29, 2012
PC chairs

Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA
Keynote speakers (TBA)

Previous DILS proceedings (LNCS/LNBI, Springer Verlag)

DILS 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
DILS 2009, Manchester, UK
DILS 2008, Evry, France
DILS 2007, Philadelphia, USA
DILS 2006, Hinxton Cambridge, UK
DILS 2005, San Diego, USA
DILS 2004, Leipzig, Germany