[CfP] EXTENDED DEADLINE (May 14th) ICML2012 Workshop on Machine Learning in Genetics and Genomics (MLGG)

[Anna Goldenberg]

DEADLINE EXTENSION (May 14): ICML2012 Workshop on Machine Learning in Genetics and Genomics [MLGG]

Workshop Website: http://ai.stanford.edu/~saram/MLGG/MLGG.html

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Important Dates

  Extended Deadline for paper submission: May 14, 2012 (midnight Samoan time)

Author notification: May 21,2012

Workshop date: July 1,2012

Motivation

The field of computational biology has seen a dramatic growth over the past few years—not only in terms of new available data, but also in new scientific questions, and new challenges for learning and inference. For instance, multiple types of large-scale (often genome-wide) datasets, such as gene expression, genotyping data, whole-genome sequences, protein-protein interactions, and protein abundance measurements, are widely available for multiple model organisms and across multiple conditions, and some of these data types are also available for large patient cohorts. Computational approaches for analyzing and learning from these data are faced with major challenges including scalability, data heterogeneity, missing data and confounding factors to name a few. The goal of this workshop is to present emerging genomics research questions and machine learning techniques that can address some of the challenges on the way to answering fundamental biological questions and refining our understanding of the genesis and progression of diseases.

  

Topics of Interest 

We encourage both contributions describing new research areas and work on established problems using methods that are different from standard approaches. Probabilistic models, sparse regression and classification, semi-supervised approaches, feature selection and other techniques applied to relevant bioinformatics problems would all be appropriate for the workshop.  All submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed and will be evaluated on the basis of their technical content.

The workshop allows submissions of papers that are under review or have been recently published in a conference or a journal. This is done to encourage presentation of mature research projects that are interesting to the community. The authors should clearly state any overlapping published work at time of submission. 

Paper Format

Our paper submission deadline has been extended until May 14th (midnight Samoa time). We are accepting 4-8 page papers, representing both mature research projects (up to 8 pages) and interesting preliminary works (4 page extended abstracts). Both types of papers will be eligible for oral presentation. Authors are encouraged to use ICML style file (http://icml.cc/2012/author-instructions/), but are also free to use other styles as long as they use standard font size (11 pt) and margins (1 in). All submissions have to be submitted in PDF format.

Reviewing

Reviewing will be double-blind where each paper will be evaluated on the basis of their technical content and general interest to the audience.

Submission Procedure

Papers should be submitted online: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mlgg2012

Workshop Organizers

Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto

Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

Sara Mostafavi, Stanford University

Michal Rosen-Zvi, IBM Research, Haifa

  

Program Committee

Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

Manfred Claassen, Stanford

Florence D'Alché-Buc, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne

Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto

Mike Jordan, University of California, Berkeley 

Laurent Jacob, University of California, Berkeley

Christina Leslie, MSKCC

Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft

Sara Mostafavi, Stanford University

Quaid Morris, University of Toronto

Gerald Quon, MIT

Yanjun Qi, NEC

Magnus Rattray,  University of Sheffield

Michal Rosen-Zvi, IBM Rearch, Haifa

David Sontag, NYU

Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines Paris Tech