Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:27:44 +0100 From: Alvis Brazma brazma@ebi.ac.uk Subject: data mining for bioinformatics International Conference: Data Mining for Bioinformatics - Towards In Silico Biology 10 - 12 November 1999 EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge, UK During the last few years bioinformatics has been overwhelmed with increasing floods of data, both in terms of volume and in terms of new databases and new types of data. We are now entering the post-genomic age, where, in addition to complete genome sequences, we are learning about gene expression patterns and protein interactions on genomic scales. This poses new challenges: old ways of dealing with data item by item are no longer sustainable. It also creates new opportunities for discovering biological knowledge "in silico" by data mining. Data mining is defined as "exploration and analysis by automatic and semi-automatic means, of large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules" . Our conference on 'Data mining for Bioinformatics' will bring together researchers interested in both fields, with the aim of generating new ideas and insights into how to tackle the challenge of floods of data in molecular biology. We will cover data mining applications in molecular sequence and structure data, in gene expression and other high thru-put data, and in existing knowledge buried in large biological texts. For more information and the registration see http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/projects/Events/datamining99
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