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.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 2017Notification of acceptance : June 16th, 2017Workshop date : Aug 10th or 11th, 2017Submission----------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.All
accepted contributions shall be presented at the poster session. There
will be Travel Awards for Contributed Talks and Awards for Best Poster
Presentations.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: https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=wcb2017Invited Speakers----------------Anshul Kundaje (https://profiles.stanford. edu/anshul-kundaje), Stanford UniversitySuchi Saria (http://www.suchisaria.com/), Johns Hopkins UniversityCheng Soon Ong (http://www.ong-home.my/), Data61, CanberraRegistration------------All participants must register for the ICML 2017 workshop (https://2017.icml.cc/ Register2).Contact-------For workshop-related queries please contact:wcbicml@gmail.comWe are looking forward to your submissions!Organizing Committee:Dana Pe'er (https://www.mskcc.org/ research-areas/labs/dana-pe-er ), MSKCCChristina Leslie (https://www.mskcc.org/ research-areas/labs/christina- leslie), MSKCCBarbara Engelhardt (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/ ~bee/), Princeton UniversityElham Azizi (http://elhamazizi.info/), MSKCCSandhya Prabhakaran (http://sandhyaprabhakaran. com/), MSKCCMeghana Kshirsagar (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ mkshirsa/), MSKCCAmbrose Carr (http://ambrosejcarr.com/), MSKCC(MSKCC: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC)