Call for Extended Abstracts

We invite extended abstracts dealing with interesting applications of ML methods or bioinformatics approaches to biological and biomedical data arising from, but not limited to NGS technologies (ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, Hi-C etc), CyToF, single-cell sequencing, electronic health records, and imaging technologies. In terms of methods, supervised and unsupervised ML, deep learning, multi-task learning, kernel methods, probabilistic graphical models would all be appropriate for the workshop.


Important Dates

Deadline for submissions : June 5th 2017 Extended to June 8th! any time zone

Notification of acceptance : June 16th, 2017

Workshop date : Aug 10th or 11th, 2017


List of Topics

All novel Computational Biology approaches are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but are not limited to:

  • Applied bioinformatics
  • Biological network inference
  • Genomic data integration
  • Dynamic modeling of biological systems
  • Graphical models in biology
  • Kernel methods in biology
  • Bayesian non-parametric biological models
  • High-dimensional biological data analysis and modeling
  • Single-cell analysis and modeling of cell population heterogeneity
  • Scalable data and pattern mining and information retrieval
  • Deep-learning applications in biology
  • Algorithms for Big Data in biology
  • Image processing and analysis of biological/biomedical images
  • Modeling evolution, phylogenies and comparative genomics
  • Modeling population genomics
  • Computational immunology
  • Metabolic modeling


Submission Procedure

We welcome original extended abstracts that present recently published work as well as preliminary ideas. Extended abstracts should not exceed 4 pages in length (plus 1 optional page for references) and should be in pdf format (one column, font size 12). The submission need not be anonymized. If the abstract concerns previously published work, please cite the original paper in the workshop submission.

All accepted contributions shall be presented at the poster session. Best posters will be selected for Poster Presentations Awards.

In addition, a set of best submissions will also have the opportunity to present their work as Contributed Talks and Spotlight Talks, and a limited number of students will receive 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 system.


Registration

All participants must register for Workshops at the ICML 2017 website.


Contact

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