Connectionists: 1st Call for Submissions to Joint ICML and IJCAI Workshop on Computational Biology 2018

[Sandhya Prabhakaran]

Dear all,

Please kindly circulate this to interested graduate students, post-docs and
faculty.

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

Deadline for submissions : May 21st, 2018
Notification of acceptance : June 11th 2018
Workshop date : July 14th or 15th 2018 (TBD)

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:
a) Extended abstracts not exceeding 4 pages in length (plus 1 optional page
for references).
b) 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 a reputed journal. For this, there will be
a second round of peer reviews.
The special edition will be published 3 months post FAIM.
c) 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

3rd speaker: TBA

REGISTRATION

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

CONTACT

For workshop-related queries please contact:
workshopcompbio at gmail.com

We are looking forward to your submissions!

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Dana Pe’er:     peerd at mskcc.org
Christina Leslie: cleslie at cbio.mskcc.org
Anshul Kundaje: akundaje at stanford.edu
Barbara Engelhardt: bee at princeton.edu
Mohammed Javeed Zaki: zaki at cs.rpi.edu
Wajdi Dhifli: wajdi.dhifli at univ-lille.fr
Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo: diallo.abdoulaye at uqam.ca
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo: engelbert.mephu_nguifo at uca.fr
Elham Azizi:     azizie at mskcc.org
Sandhya Prabhakaran: prabhaks at mskcc.org
Meghana Kshirsagar: kshirsam at mskcc.org
Wesley Tansey: wt2274 at cumc.columbia.edu
Ambrose Carr: ajc2205 at columbia.edu
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