<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="overflow:auto"><div style="max-height:10000px"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<p>We invite submissions to the Workshop on Computational Biology (<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/compbioworkshopicml2017" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/<wbr>view/compbioworkshopicml2017</a>) to be held in conjunction with ICML 2017 (<a href="https://2017.icml.cc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://2017.icml.cc/</a>) conference in Sydney, Australia (Aug 6th - 11th, 2017). </p><p>In
Computational Biology, there have been credible developments in many
high-throughput technologies that enable data generation from many
interesting biological systems. The gamut of novel algorithms in Machine
Learning makes it very attractive to apply these methods to the
challenging biological questions. It therefore only 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Important Dates<br>---------------<br>Deadline for submissions : June 8th 2017<br>Notification of acceptance : June 16th, 2017<br>Workshop date : Aug 10th or 11th, 2017</p><p><br>Submission<br>----------<br>All
novel Computational Biology approaches are of interest to the workshop.
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.</p><p>All accepted
contributions shall be presented at the poster session. There will be
Travel Awards for Contributed Talks and Awards for Best Poster
Presentations.<br>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.<br>Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcb2017" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=wcb2017</a></p><p><br>Invited Speakers<br>----------------</p><p>Anshul Kundaje (<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/anshul-kundaje" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://profiles.stanford.<wbr>edu/anshul-kundaje</a>), Stanford University<br>Suchi Saria (<a href="http://www.suchisaria.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.suchisaria.com/</a>), Johns Hopkins University<br>Cheng Soon Ong (<a href="http://www.ong-home.my/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.ong-home.my/</a>), Data61, Canberra</p><p><br>Registration<br>------------<br>All participants must register for the ICML 2017 workshop (<a href="https://2017.icml.cc/Register2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://2017.icml.cc/<wbr>Register2</a>).</p><p><br>Contact<br>-------<br>For workshop-related queries please contact:<br><a href="mailto:wcbicml@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">wcbicml@gmail.com</a></p><p>We are looking forward to your submissions!</p><p>Organizing Committee:<br>Dana Pe'er (<a href="https://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/dana-pe-er" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.mskcc.org/<wbr>research-areas/labs/dana-pe-er</a><wbr>), MSKCC<br>Christina Leslie (<a href="https://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/christina-leslie" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.mskcc.org/<wbr>research-areas/labs/christina-<wbr>leslie</a>), MSKCC<br>Barbara Engelhardt (<a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ebee/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.princeton.edu/<wbr>~bee/</a>), Princeton University<br>Elham Azizi (<a href="http://elhamazizi.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://elhamazizi.info/</a>), MSKCC<br>Sandhya Prabhakaran (<a href="http://sandhyaprabhakaran.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://sandhyaprabhakaran.<wbr>com/</a>), MSKCC<br>Meghana Kshirsagar (<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emkshirsa/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~<wbr>mkshirsa/</a>), MSKCC<br>Ambrose Carr (<a href="http://ambrosejcarr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ambrosejcarr.com/</a>), MSKCC<br>(MSKCC: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC)</p></div></div></div></div> </div>