MALIOB 2009
Machine learning and intelligent optimization in bioinformatics
LION 3 Satellite Workshop
16 January 2009, Trento, Italy
Modern computational molecular biology is a challenging discipline calling for highly automated approaches to efficiently deal with complex tasks and huge sets of possible explanations. The increasing availability of biological data from sources as diverse as gene expression analysis, mass spectrometry, DNA sequencing and protein structure determination provides an unprecedented opportunity for researchers. The most recent advances in machine learning and intelligent optimization seem to be a necessary condition to work in a domain characterized by complex relational structures, uncertainty in background knowledge from domain-experts, noisy and heterogeneous sources of information, missing or ambiguous data, and highly related and structured target concepts and tasks. Transparency is a major concern to be traded-off and explanatory solutions are especially appealing for the domain experts.
This workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers from the fields of machine learning, optimization and molecular biology in an open and informal environment, allowing extensive discussion on successful applications to relevant bioinformatics tasks, novel approaches and challenging open problems.
Important Dates:- Paper submission deadline: November 15th, 2008 (Extended)
- Submission deadline for extended abstracts, position statements, recently published or submitted works (see CFP): November 30th, 2008 (Extended)
- Notification to authors: December 15th, 2008
- Special Session: January 16th, 2009
- Camera ready for post-proceedings: February 15th, 2009