KDDBHI 2018 - 5th Workshop on Big Data Analytic Technology for Bioinformatics and Health Informatics (KDDBHI)

As increasingly massive amounts of computational biological information, including genome sequences, protein sequences, gene expression data, becomes available, more efficient, sensitive, and specific big data analytic technology in Bioinformatics become critically in need. For example, terabytes or more of raw data are easily generated in next-generation sequencing experiments. Also, in biological and biomedical imaging process and analysis, large volumes of data are generated. Consequently, how to store, achieve, index, manage, learn, mine, and visualize the big data is clearly a challenge to the research community.
Similarly, for the past decade, there have been a variety of efforts and progresses from healthcare organizations and companies in digitizing, storing, analyzing medical data. For instance, predictive analytics and risk adjustment allow insurance companies and healthcare organizations to predict the future costs for budgets and population health management, perform risk adjustment, develop the treatment guidelines, plan care management strategies, and measure physician performance.
With The emergence and advancements in Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine, it calls for further fusion of Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Clinical Outcome and Population Health, and application of big data analytics to the ever growing big data. For instance, the integration of genetic test results, patient-specific sequencing, expression profiling, tissue image data, and clinical data in a patient medical record provides opportunities for personalized medicine, target drug research, and treatment effectiveness research, which are all necessary components of precision medicine. The recent advancement in big data technology and research, make it now the perfect time to marry the research and application.
Featured Topics (Big Data Research and Applications in)
· Precision Medicine & Personalized Medicine
· Health Analytics and Informatics
· Target Drug Design and Discovery
· RNAseq and Microarray Gene expression Data Analysis
· Gene Regulatory Network Construction
· Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) Analysis
· Functional Genomics
· Population, Evolution, and Comparative Genomics
· Transnational Bioinformatics
· Protein Structure Prediction
· Protein Function Analysis
· Healthcare and Healthcare Delivery
· Healthcare policy research
· Healthcare outcomes research, monitoring and evaluation
· Hospital Information System
· Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Health Record
· Population Health and Public Health Management
· Mobile Health and Sensor Applications
· Other areas related to healthcare informatics and analytics
· Other areas related to proteomics and genomics