[seek-logistics] Data Integration in the Life Sciences, San Diego, July 20-22

Bertram Ludaescher ludaesch at ucdavis.edu
Fri Jun 17 13:21:25 PDT 2005


[[ Note:
1. The technical program below!
2. The upcoming early bird registration deadline ...
3. The time and location (think "beaches are not far" ;-) 
4. And please forward to other interested parties!!! ]]

-- 
Bertram Ludaescher	
Dept of Computer Science & UC Davis Genome Center
University of California, Davis 
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 


			Call for PARTICIPATION

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		    2nd International Workshop on
	  Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2005)
		University of California, San Diego
			  July 20 - 22, 2005

		     http://www.sdsc.edu/dils05/
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	     *** EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS June 30 ***


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* KEYNOTE TALKS (http://www.syncenter.org/dils2005/Keynote_Speakers):

- "Curated Databases", Peter Buneman, School of Informatics and
    Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh

- "Challenges in Biological Data Integration in the Post-Genome
    Sequence Era", Shankar Subramaniam, Department of Bioengineering and
    San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
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--------------------Wednesday 4pm, July 20, 2005----------------------
* DILS OPENING
- Challenges in Providing Long Lived Integrated Information Resources
   for Biologists, Susan Baxter (Natl. Center for Genome Resources)
- Eco-Informatics for Decision Makers: Advancing a Research Agenda,
   Judy Cushing (Evergreen College), Tyrone Wilson (USGS)

* POSTER BRIEFINGS & SESSION and RECEPTION
- Support for BioIndexing in BLASTgres, Ruey-Lung Hsiao, D. Stott
   Parker, Hung-chih Yang
- An Environment to Define and Execute In-Silico Workflows Using Web
   Services, Rafael Targino, Maria Claudia Cavalcanti, Marta Mattoso
- Web Service Mining for Biological Pathway Discovery, George Zheng,
   Athman Bouguettaya
- SemanticBio: building conceptual scientific workflows over web
   services, Zoe Lacroix, Hervé Ménager
- PLATCOM: Current Status and Plan for the Next Stages, Kwangmin Choi,
   Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Sun Kim, Amit Saple, Zhiping Wang, Jason Lee
- Integration of Interaction Databases Using Web Services, Seong Joon Yoo
- Collaborative Curation of Data from Bio-medical Texts and Abstracts
   and its integration, Chitta Baral, Hasan Davulcu, Mutsumi Nakamura,
   Prabhdeep Singh, Luis Tari, Lian Yu
- Towards the paradigm of an ontology-based user interface: from
   simple knowledge maps to graphical query language, Serguei Krivov,
   Ferdinando Villa

--------------------Thursday July 21, 2005----------------------------
* KEYNOTE: Challenges in Biological Data Integration in the
   Post-Genome Sequence Era, Shankar Subramaniam (UCSD)

* USER APPLICATIONS
- A User-centric Framework for Accessing Biological Sources and Tools,
   Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Susan Davidson, Christine Froidevaux
- BioLog: A Browser Based Collaboration and Resource Navigation
   Assistant for BioMedical Researchers, Prabhdeep Singh, Ravi
   Bhimavarapu, Hasan Davulcu, Chitta Baral, Seungchan Kim, Huan Liu,
   Mike Bittner, I.V. Ramakrishnan
- Learning Layouts of Biological Datasets Semi-Automatically, Kaushik
   Sinha, Xuan Zhang, Ruoming Jin, Gagan Agrawal

* ONTOLOGIES
- Factors affecting ontology development in ecology, C. Maria Keet
- Querying ontologies in relational database systems, Silke Trissl, Ulf Leser
- Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa:
   their context and definition are required for accurate data
   integration, Jessie Kennedy, Trevor Paterson, Robert Kukla

* DATA INTEGRATION I
- Integrating Heterogeneous Microarray Data Sources Using Correlation
   Signatures, Jaewoo Kang, Jiong Yang, Wanhong Xu, Pankaj Chopra
- Knowledge-Based Integrative Framework for Hypothesis Formation in
   Biochemical Networks, Nam Tran, Chitta Baral, Vinay Nagaraj, Lokesh
   Joshi

* CONFERENCE DINNER

--------------------Friday July 22, 2005------------------------------
* KEYNOTE, Curated Databases, Peter Buneman (University of Edinburgh)

* DATA INTEGRATION II
- The Multiple Roles of Ontologies in the BioMediator Data Integration
   System, Peter Mork, Ron Shaker, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
- Semantic Correspondence in Federated Life Science Data Integration
   Systems, Malika Mahoui, Harshad Kulkarni, Nianhua Li, Zina Ben-Miled,
   Katy Borner
- An architecture and application for integrating curation data at the
   residue level for proteins, Mehmet Dalkilic
- The Biozon system for complex analysis of heterogeneous interrelated
   biological data and discovery of emergent structures, Golan Yona,
   Aaron Birkland

* PROJECT UPDATES/DEMONSTRATIONS:
- BIRN: The Metropolis Mediator System, Vadim Astakhov (UCSD) et al.
- SEEK: Data Integration and Workflow Solutions for Ecology, William
   Michener (American Institute of Biological Sciences, LTER) et al.

* DATA INTEGRATION III
- Assigning Unique Keys to Chemical Compounds for data integration:
   some interesting counterexamples, Greeshma Neglur, Robert Grossman,
   Bing Liu
- Integrating and Warehousing Liver Gene Expression Data and Related
   Biomedical Resources in GEDAW, Emilie Guérin, Gwenaelle Marquet,
   Anita Burgun, Olivier Loréral, Laure Berti-Equille, Ulf Leser,
   Fouzia Moussouni
- Information Integration and Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically
   Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources, Doina Caragea, Jyotishman
   Pathak, Jie Bao, Adrian Silvescu, Andorf Carson, Drena Dobbs, Vasant
   Honavar

* POTPOURRI
- Building a Generic Platform for Medical Screening Applications based
   on Domain Specific Modeling and Process Orientation, Stefan Jablonski,
   Rainer Lay, Sascha Mueller, Christian Meiler, Matthias Faerber, Victor
   Derhartunian, Georg Michelson
- Automatic Generation of Data Types for Classification of DeepWeb
   Sources,David Buttler, Terence Critchlow, Anne Ngu
- BioNavigation: Selecting Optimum Paths through Biological Resources
   to Evaluate Ontological Navigational Queries, Zoe Lacroix, Kaushal
   Parekh, Maria-Esther Vidal, Marelis Cardenas, Natalia Marquez

* DATA INTEGRATION IV
- Cluster based Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Databases
   using the AutoMed toolkit, Michael Maibaum, Lucas Zamboulis, Galia
   Rimon, Nigel Martin, Alexandra Poulovassilis
- Hybrid Integration of Molecular-biological Annotation Data, Toralf
   Kirsten, Hong-Hai Do, Christine Körner, Erhard Rahm
- Automatic Annotation of Metabolomic Mass Spectra, Oliver Fiehn, Gert
   Wohlgemuth, Martin
- Performance-Oriented Privacy-Preserving Data Integration, Raymond
   Pon, Terence Critchlow

* PANEL & CONCLUDING REMARKS
- The Electronic Health Record of the Future: Integrating Molecular
   Information

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REGISTRATION FEES:
Industrial/Academic/Student: $200/$175/$100 (before July 1st)
Industrial/Academic/Student: $250/$220/$150 (after July 1st)

See: https://support.sdsc.edu/register/dils05/
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        DILS gratefully acknowledges support from our sponsors:
  Microsoft Research, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA),
     UC Davis Genome Center, U Maryland Center for Bioinformatics &
  Computational Biology, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego




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