CfP: Deadline Extension to May 25th - Joint ICML and IJCAI Workshop on Computational Biology 2018

[Sandhya Prabhakaran]

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**DEADLINE EXTENSION to MAY 25th**

CFP: Joint ICML and IJCAI Workshop on Computational Biology 2018

https://sites.google.com/view/wcb2018

Stockholm, Sweden July 14th 2018
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Please kindly circulate this to interested graduate students, post-docs and
faculty.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

*Call For Submissions*

We invite submissions to the Joint ICML and IJCAI Workshop on Computational
Biology (https://sites.google.com/view/wcb2018) to be held in
Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm SWEDEN (http://icml.cc/ and
https://www.ijcai-18.org/) (July 10-15, 2018).
In Biology, there have been credible developments in high-throughput technologies such as
next-generation sequencing, CyToF and single-cell sequencing that enable
large-scale data generation from many interesting biological systems such
as cancer, autoimmune diseases, and human development. However, the scale
of these new data make it challenging to analyze with traditional
computational biology methods. In contrast, it presents an opportunity for
machine learning practitioners to make significant contributions to our
knowledge about human health and disease. It therefore seems befitting to
bring together researchers engaged in applying ML in Computational Biology
to discuss recent advances in this interdisciplinary field and ongoing
developments.
We have invited several distinguished speakers from the Computational
Biology community to discuss and present their current research. We also
invite extended abstracts, long papers and highlight papers dealing with
novel algorithms and computational approaches that are especially robust
and scalable to high-dimensional data defined by tens of thousands of
features as well as thousands to millions of observations, and provide
interpretable relationships in biological systems. These can be
applications of ML methods or bioinformatics approaches to biological and
biomedical data.
Papers will be presented in poster format and some will be selected for
oral presentation. Through invited talks and presentations by the
participants, this workshop will bring together current advances in
Computational Biology and set the stage for continuing interdisciplinary
research discussions.


*Important Dates*

Extended Deadline for submissions : May 25th 2018
Notification of acceptance : June 11th 2018
Workshop date : July 14th 2018


*Submission *

All novel Computational Biology approaches are of interest to
the workshop. We welcome original abstracts on recently published work as
well as preliminary ideas in three different formats:
- Extended abstracts not exceeding 4 pages in length (plus 1 optional page
for references).
- Long papers upto 10 pages in length (plus 1 optional page for
references). A set of these long papers will be further invited to publish
an extended version in a special edition of the Journal of Computational
Biology (JCB). For this, there will be a second round of peer reviews. The
special edition will be published 3 months post FAIM.
- Highlight papers not exceeding 2 pages with an abstract and link to
recently published paper/code. This avenue can be used to project already
published articles.

All submissions must use either the ICML/IJCAI template. The submission
need not be anonymized. If the submission concerns previously published
work, please cite the original paper in the workshop submission.
All accepted contributions shall be presented at the poster session. There
will be Awards for Best Poster Presentations.
In addition, a set of best submissions will also have the opportunity to
present their work as Contributed Talks, and will receive Student Travel
Awards.
Accepted abstracts will have the option of being published on the workshop
website. For authors who do not wish their abstracts to be posted online or
become citable, please mention this in the workshop submission.
Submissions should be made through the EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icml-ijcai-wcb2018) system.


*Invited Speakers*

> Samuel Kaski: Director, Finnish Centre of Excellence in
Computational Inference Research COIN, Aalto University and University of
Helsinki; Academy Professor (Research Professor), and Professor of Computer
Science, Aalto University
> Dana Pe’er: Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program
Scientific Director, Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Centre, NYC
> Jean-Vert Philippe: Professor, Department of Mathematics and Applications,
Ecole normale superieure; Director, Centre for Computational Biology, Mines
ParisTech; Team leader, Institut Curie


*Registration*

All participants must register for the workshop at ICML 2018 conference (http://icml.cc/2018/) or IJCAI 2018 conference (https://www.ijcai-18.org/)

*Contact*

For workshop-related queries please contact: worksho...@gmail.com


*Organizing Committee:*Dana Pe’er, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
Barbara Engelhardt, Princeton University
Mohammed Javeed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wajdi Dhifli, University of Lille
Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo, Université du Québec à Montréal
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Université Clermont Auvergne
Elham Azizi, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sandhya Prabhakaran, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Meghana Kshirsagar, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wesley Tansey, Columbia University
Ambrose Carr, Columbia University