BIOKDD 2020: 19th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics San Diego Convention Center San Diego, CA, United States, August 24, 2020 |
Conference website | http://home.biokdd.org/biokdd20 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biokdd20200 |
Submission deadline | May 20, 2020 |
BIOKDD'20 invites KDD researchers to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Medical and Health Informatics. It is a full-day workshop embracing SIGKDD 2020's Health Day. BIOKDD has been successfully held in conjunction with SIGKDD for 18 years, and this year's encouraged theme is Battling COVID-19.
We will have a series of invited talks by world-renowned experts on their recent and on-going COVID-19 research. We will also invite healthcare professionals fighting at the front line of COVID-19 pandemic from countries that succeed at flattening the curve (such as China and South Korea) to share their experience.
Given the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 outbreak, we will work with SIGKDD'20 organizers to investigate feasible options such as a virtual workshop, or a mix of virtual and in-person workshop. We will ensure the quality of digital workshop experience.
Submission Guidelines
We solicit submission of papers in the following three categories:
- Regular Track: original papers without duplicate submission. Papers should be at most 10 pages in length, and using ACM Proceedings Format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) is recommended.
- Abstract Track: 1-page limit, for introducing preliminary research outcomes, with emphasis research effectiveness on real-world datasets.
- Late-Breaking Research: submission of a published manuscript (at least in arXiv) along with additional supplemental/unpublished data, to highlight the work's impact.
All papers will be peer-reviewed. If accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop (with a virtual option) to present their work. The papers should be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biokdd20200
Important Dates:
- Submission Due: May 20, 2020
- Notification Date: June 15, 2020
- Workshop Date: August 24, 2020
List of Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Research that battles COVID-19
- Bioimage analysis, single-cell analysis
- Biological network visualization
- Information visualization and visual analytics for biomedical data
- Development of deep learning methods for biological and clinical data
- Novel methods and frameworks for mining and integrating big biological data
- Discovering biological networks and pathways underlying biological processes and diseases
- Analysis, discovery of biomarkers and mutations, and disease risk assessment
- Comparative genomics
- Metagenome analysis using sequencing data
- RNA-seq and microarray-based gene expression analysis
- Genome-wide analysis of non-coding RNAs
- Genome-wide regulatory motif discovery
- Structural bioinformatics
- Automated annotation of genes and proteins
- Discovery of structural variations from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data
- Correlating NGS with proteomics data analysis
- Discovery of genotype-phenotype associations
- Building predictive models for complex phenotypes
- Functional annotation of genes and proteins
- Cheminformatics
- Special biological data management techniques
- Privacy and security issues in mining genomic databases
- Information visualization and visual analytics for biomedical data
- Predictive modeling for personalized treatment
- Semantic web and ontology-driven data integration methods
- Text mining for biomedical literature and clinical notes
- Information retrieval for healthcare and Biomedical applications
- Biomedical signal analysis and processing
- Intelligent medical data management
- Collaboration technologies for biomedicine
- Social networks for biomedicine
Committees
Program Co-Chairs
- Da Yan (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- Hong Qin (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
- Hsiang-Yun Wu (TU Wien)
General Chair
- Jake Chen (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Steering Committee
- Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Publication
As a tradition of BIOKDD, accepted original submissions will be invited to publish in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB).
Venue
The conference will be held in San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA - USA on August 24, 2020.
Contact
Please email all questions about submissions to yanda@uab.edu