5 Nov 2021 - online

MODIMO
Workshop on Multi-Omics Data Integration for Modelling Biological Systems

in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2021

Multi-omics analysis aims at extracting previously uncovered biological knowledge by integrating information across multiple single-omic sources. Past approaches have focused on the simultaneous analysis of a small number of omic data sets. Current challenges face the problem of integrating multiple omic sources into a unified complex model, or of combining already available tools for two-by-two omics analyses and merging their outcomes. By doing so and leveraging integrated system-level knowledge, multi-omic approaches ought to enable the development of better qualitative and quantitative models for descriptive and predictive analyses. To move this area forward, new statistical and algorithmic frameworks are needed, for example for generalizing classical graph theory results to heterogeneous networks, and applying them to diverse problems such as drug repurposing or understanding the immune response to infections. Thus, in short, this workshop aims at investigating novel methodologies for providing crucial insights into multi-omics data management, integration, and analysis in order to enable biological discoveries.


Workshop Theme and Topics

The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to):

  • mutli-omics data analysis

  • multi-omics data integration

  • system biology

  • computational biology

  • biological network construction and analysis

  • biological knowledge graphs

  • heterogeneous networks

  • modeling of biochemical pathways and biological networks

  • big bio- or clinical- data analytics

  • Integration of structured and unstructured resources for biomedical applications

  • mining multi-relational data

  • information retrieval from large biomedical data collections


Important Dates

Full paper deadline 20 Sept 2021

Short paper deadline 20 Sept 2021

Paper Notification 1 Oct 2021

Camera-ready deadline 10 Oct 2021

Organizing Committee

Program Chairs and Co-Chairs

Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, USA

Marco Beccuti, University of Turin, Italy

Vincenzo Bonnici, University of Verona, Italy

Rosalba Giugno, University of Verona, Italy

Program Committee

Patrick Aloy, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain

Andrè Altman, University College London, UK

Martin Hemberg, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK

Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside, USA

Sara Madeira, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy

Workshop Contact Person

Vincenzo Bonnici

Strada le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy

+39 045 802 7045

vincenzo.bonnici[at]univr.it

https://www.di.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=8845&lang=en

Progam

10:00 am - 10:05 am | Openings

10:05 am - 11:00 am | Invited speaker (Patrick Aloy)

11:00 am - 11:45 am | Paper session

11:45 am - 12:45 am | Invited Speaker (Alberto Policriti)

12:45 am - 12:50 am | Closing remarks


All times are Central European Time (CET) timezone.

For CINI InfoLife members only, a meeting with relative brainstorming will be held during the workshop.

Invited speakers


Patrick Aloy, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain

Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy

Submission guidelines


Authors are invited to submit original work in the form of short and full papers, describing research results that are unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.


Members of the Program Committee will review the submissions and select papers for poster or talk presentation at the conference based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, clarity, and reproducibility.


Accepted papers will be invited for presentation during the workshop. Presentation time and format (talk or poster) will be allocated based on the presented contribution.


Workshop papers will be included in a CIKM companion volume published by http://ceur-ws.org/. Papers must be formatted in CEUR style guidelines (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/, two-column style, with page numbers) and be submitted via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=modimo2021 ). The page limit is 9 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, plus references. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop as Conference Attendee and be available to present, in order for the paper to be included in the workshop proceedings.