DILS 2008, 5th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life
Sciences

                         Evry, France, June 25-27 2008
                         http://dils2008.lri.fr

            ** Deadline approaching: February 20th, 2008 **

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Paper submission
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DILS 2008 invites two types of papers

    * Research papers (up to 16 pages): new models, methods, or
algorithms designed to solve problems relevant to the scope of DILS.

    * Systems or experience papers (up to 8 pages): implementation of
systems or feedback on practice of systems able to solve problems
relevant to the scope of DILS.
      Papers describing commercial solutions are welcome as long as
sufficient detail of the problem and its technical solution are provided.

Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).
Submission is electronic via the Microsoft Conference Management (CMT)
site is available at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DILS2008/

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Keynote speakers
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* Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA

* Peter Karp, SRI International, USA

* Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK

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Call for Papers
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For several years now, there has been an exponential growth of the
amount of life science data (e.g., sequenced complete genomes, 3D
structures, DNA chips, Mass spectroscopy data) generated by high
throughput experiments. Large amounts of data are distributed across
many sources over the web, with high degree of semantic heterogeneity
and different levels of quality. These data must be combined with other
data and processed by bioinformatics tools deployed on powerful and
efficient platforms for patterns, similarities, and unusual occurrences
to be observed. Carrying out analyses of complex, voluminous, and
heterogeneous data and guiding the analysis of data is thus of paramount
importance and necessitates data integration techniques to be involved.

DILS 2008 is the fifth in a workshop series that aims at fostering
discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the
areas of data integration and data management for the life sciences.
DILS 2004 in Leipzig, DILS 2005 in San Diego, DILS 2006 in Hinxton, and
DILS 2007 in Philadelphia, each attracted around 100 researchers from
all over the world. We invite researchers, and professionals from
biology, medicine, computer science, and engineering to participate and
share their knowledge in this forum.

Papers must address challenges for data integration and data management
in the life sciences.

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
   * Biological Metadata management
   * Annotation in scientific data integration
   * Provenance modeling and management for the life sciences
   * Scientific Workflows and analysis pipelines
   * Laboratory information management systems in biology
   * Biological data quality and data cleaning
   * Life sciences ontologies
   * Semantic web for  the life sciences
   * Mining integrated life sciences data
   * Machine learning in data integration in the life sciences
   * Grid Computing and Grid technologies for the life sciences
   * System prototypes for biology
   * Commercial solutions in the life sciences

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PC Chairs
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   * Amos Bairoch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Swiss-Prot group,
University of Geneva, Switzerland
   * Sarah Cohen Boulakia, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
   * Christine Froidevaux, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France

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Important dates
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   * Research papers due: February 20, 2008
   * Author notification: March 26, 2008
   * Camera-ready copy due: April 16, 2008

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** Publicity Chairs

   * Julie Chabalier, Faculte de medecine, University of Rennes 1, France
   * Fouzia Moussouni, INSERM, University of Rennes 1, France

** Webmasters

   * Frederic Lemoine, LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
   * Bastien Rance,  LRI, University of Paris-Sud 11, France

** Contact: frederic DOT lemoine AT lri DOT fr

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