CFP

2nd Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD02) http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD02/ with 8th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bioinformatics is the science of storing, extracting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and utilizing information from biological sequences and molecules. It has been mainly fueled by advances in DNA sequencing and mapping techniques. The Human Genome Project has resulted in an exponentially growing database of genetic sequences. Data mining techniques will play an increasingly important role in the analysis and discovery of sequence, structure and functional patterns or models from large sequence databases.

The workshop co-chairs are currently negotiating with a major publisher to publish a book containing selected chapters from BIOKDD02 and BIOKDD01 workshops. See website for formating and submission details. Topics of interest lie at the intersection of KDD and Bioinformatics. They include, but are not limited to:

Knowledge discovery and data mining:

• New Mining Algorithms
• Knowledge Representation
• Database Support
• Data Preprocessing and Cleaning
• Feature Selection, Analysis and Visualization
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
• Neural, Rough, Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques
• Hidden Markov Models
• Bayesian Approaches
• High Performance Computing

• Molecular Sequence Analysis
• Recognition of Genes and Regulatory Elements
• Protein Structure Prediction
• Interpretation of Large-Scale Gene Expression Data
• Gene Mapping
• Whole Genome Comparative Analysis
• Modeling of Biochemical Pathways
• Drug Design and Combinatorial Libraries

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (zaki@cs.rpi.edu)
Jason T. L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology (jason@cis.njit.edu)
Hannu T.T. Toivonen, University of Helsinki (htoivone@cs.helsinki.fi)