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Guest editors: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, UMass Lowell),
Pablo Tamayo (MIT Whitehead Institute)

SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM SIGKDD (Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). This special issue invites submissions which explore analysis and mining of DNA Microarray data.

Analyzing gene expression data from microarray devices has many important applications in medicine and biology, but presents significant challenges to data mining, including

• analyzing data with very many attributes (genes) and relatively few examples (samples)
• high likelihood of false positives due to chance
• lack of absolute ground truth
• assessing classifier certainty
• abundance of biological knowledge and difficulty of integrating it
• understanding the influence of many steps of data preprocessing on gene expression data
• complexities of gene interaction

We invite contributions that deal with data mining aspects of microarray data analysis, including topics mentioned above, and fall into one of the following areas:

• disease classification/discrimination and outcome prediction
• gene clustering
• analysis of changes over time
• biological knowledge integration in data analysis
• biological knowledge discovery from data
• application descriptions and case studies
• surveys and descriptions of existing software for microarray data analysis

Submissions should be made to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gps_#_acm.org (replace _#_ with @) in Microsoft Word or PDF format. Submissions are expected to be between 5 and 15 pages in length.

Here are more detailed submission instructions.

Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editors, external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate.

Important Dates:

Submissions	Oct 10, 2003
Reviews due back to authors	Nov 10, 2003
Camera-ready due	Dec 1, 2003

About the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter

SIGKDD Explorations Editors are

• Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief
• Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor
• Paul Bradley, Associate Editor