Symposium on Knowledge Representation in Bioinformatics

KRBIO'05: Symposium on Knowledge Representation in Bioinformatics

June 15, 2005
Helsinki University of Technology

Introduction

The KRBIO'05 symposium focuses on the representation of information in several areas of life sciences taking into account the complexity, dynamics and co-occurrence of the phenomena, and the heterogeneous sources of information emerging from many disciplines and countries. There is a growing need to integrate all the information in order to build models with higher predictive power. Reductionist approaches are not any more sufficient to tackle this complexity.

Therefore, the objectives of the KRBIO'05 symposium is to gather people interested in these challenges to foster discussion and development of new tools and methods in the area of data mining, statistical machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, adaptive conceptual representations combining different levels of representations and dynamical systems theory are needed to deal with the complex phenomena and heterogeneous data.

Symposium programme


09:45-10:00	Opening: Matej Oresic and Samuel Kaski
10:00-10:30	Matej Oresic: Network-Based Representation of Biological Data for Enabling Context-Based Mining (invited paper by Catherine Bounsaythip, Erno Lindfors, Peddinti V. Gopalacharyulu, Jaakko Hollmén and Matej Oresic)
10:30-11:00	James Malone, Ken McGarry and Chris Bowerman: Intelligent Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Data Mining for Knowledge Discovery on Proteomics Data
11:00-11:30	Janne Nikkilä, Christophe Roos and Samuel Kaski: Integration of Transcription Factor Binding and Gene Expression by Associative Clustering
11:30-12:00	Jarkko Venna and Samuel Kaski: Visualized atlas of a gene expression databank
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:30	Hannu Toivonen, Saara Hyvönen and Petteri Sevon: Combining Phenotypic and Genetotypic data to Discover Multiple Disease Genes (INVITED PAPER)
13:30-14:00	Andreas Doms, Tim Furche, Albert Burger and Michael Schroeder: How to Query the GeneOntology
14:00-15:00	Panel discussion (chair: Matej Oresic)

Presentations in the poster session (held between 15:00 and 16:00):

Alexey Pasechnik, Aleksandr Mylläri and Tapio Salakoski: Dynamical Visualization of the DNA Sequence and its Nucleotide Content

Please, see the conference programme for the complete programme of the symposium and other conference events.

Symposium publication

The conference papers will be published by Helsinki University of Technology as printed proceedings and they will also be made available through the web to ensure wide distribution.

In addition, the authors of the best papers will be invited to extend their papers for a special issue in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Important dates

Paper submission due: 11 February 2005 (updated!)
Acceptance notification: 14 March 2005
Deadline for early registration: 21 March 2005
Camera-ready paper due: 8 April 2005
KRBIO'05 symposium: 15 June 2005
AKRR'05 conference: 15-17 June 2005

For more detailed information about the above issues, please refer to the web page of
the AKRR05 conference (http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/) or contact Catherine.Bounsaythip AT vtt.fi.

Programme committee

Catherine Bounsaythip, VTT Biotechnology, Finland (chair)
Wafik Farag, SkyPrise Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jaakko Hollmén, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare Systems, MA, USA
Samuel Kaski, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sami Khuri, San Jose State University, USA
Ken McGarry, University of Sunderland, UK
Eric Neumann, Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceutical, USA
Matej Oresic, VTT Biotechnology, Finland
Fabio Porto, EPFL-IC/LBD, Switzerland
Otto Ritter, AstraZeneca R&D, Boston, USA
Michael Schroeder, Technological University Dresden, Germany
Ted Slater, Pfizer Global R&D Michigan, MI, USA
Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

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