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25-26 Nov. 2004

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Objectives

The two primary objectives of KELSI’2004 are:

• To explore the symbiosis between information and knowledge technologies and various life science disciplines, such as biochemistry, biology, neuroscience, medical research, social sciences, and so on.
• To investigate the synergy among different life science informatics areas, including cheminformatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, medical informatics, systems biology, socionics, and others.

kelsi∙2004 Focus

Life science informatics is fast becoming a generic and overarching information technology (IT) discipline for the life sciences. It includes areas such as cheminformatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, medical informatics, socionics, and others. While the precise scientific questions and goals differ within the various life science disciplines, there is a considerable overlap in terms of the required key IT methodologies and infrastructures. Critical technologies include databases, information bases, executable models (i.e., knowledge-based and simulation systems), and emerging Grid computing infrastructures and systems. These base technologies are complemented by a range of enabling methodologies and systems such as knowledge management and discovery, data and text mining, machine learning, intelligent systems, artificial and computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, computational creativity, knowledge engineering, and others. 

In view of these emerging knowledge technology infrastructures, it is important to investigate which technologies are needed for which life science information processing task and which knowledge techniques could be ported across different life science contexts. This KELSI’2004 Symposium will address these questions by inviting contributions from a range of life science informatics areas.

kelsi∙2004 Topics

The topics for KELSI’2004 are concentrated around the core life science informatics disciplines such as cheminformatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, medical informatics, systems biology, and socionics. Within these areas the KELSI’2004 Symposium invites contributions addressing topics listed below:

·          Algorithms and object-oriented modelling in life science informatics

·          Data mining and text mining in the life sciences

·          Knowledge representation

·          Pathway and network modelling – genetic, regulatory, metabolic, signalling, etc.

·          Combinatorial libraries and drug development

·          Genomics – comparative, functional, evolutionary, clinical, pharamco-, etc.

·          Computational chemistry

·          Data, information, and knowledge integration

·          Visualization and image analysis and processing

·          Epidemic models

·          Gene expression and microarray analysis

·          Training strategies for life science informatics

·          Genotyping and discovery single nucleotide polymorphisms

·          Grid technology and distributed computing in the life sciences (especially knowledge management, semantic web, VOs)

·          High throughput computing in life sciences

·          Machine learning and life-inspired machine learning; artificial life

·          Computational creativity

·          Methodologies for systems-level understanding of life

·          Modeling or simulation environments in life sciences

·          Molecular modelling: molecular dynamics and kinetics; protein folding; sequence analysis

·          Pattern recognition approaches in the life sciences

·          Annotation of entities and process such as genes, proteins, metabolites, etc

·          Sequence/structure motif analysis and discovery

·          Simulation of intra-cellular and inter-cellular processes

·          Statistical modelling and analysis

Invited Speakers

We invited three high-calibre speakers from different life science informatics areas:

·          Prof Michal Linial , Dept of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

·          Prof Gustavo Deco, Institucion Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

·          Prof Stephen Muggleton, Department of Computing Imperial College, London, UK

·          Dr Martin Kuiper, Genetic Network Modelling – Computational Biology Division Dept. of Plant Systems Biology

Conference Proceedings

The Symposium proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes of Bioinformatics (LNBI) or Lecturer Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) or Lecturer Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).  The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries LNAI and LNBI, has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science.

Please visit the LNCS Home Page:

 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html 

as well as the LNCS Authors Instructions subpage (see next paragraph). 

FREE Registration & Papers Submission

Registration is free (just e-mail: E-Mail kelsi 2004) and prospective authors are invited to  submit manuscripts by sending an e-mail to the IPC Co-Chairs of the Symposium, Werner Dubitzky and Jesus Lopez (E-Mail kelsi 2004):

w.dubitzky@ulster.ac.uk

The submitted papers should include a front page stating: title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation, 3-5 keywords, and contact details for the corresponding author.

To facilitate efficient reviewing and preparation of the final manuscripts, the length of submitted manuscripts should not exceed 15 A4 pages (including figures and tables). Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Evaluation of manuscripts will be based on originality, significance, clarity, and scientific soundness. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes of Bioinformatics series.

Schedule

The reviewing and production process has certain deadlines, which must be met to ensure high-quality and timely delivery of the proceedings. Therefore all authors are encouraged to strictly adhere to the schedule outlined below:

·          Electronic submission of manuscripts – Friday, 16 July 2004

·          Acceptance notification – Friday, 13 August 2004

·          Camera-ready manuscripts – Friday, 10 September 2004

·          Symposium to be held in Milano, Italy – 25-26 November 2004

International program Committee

Jesus Lopez (IPC Co-Chair), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

Werner Dubitzky (IPC Co-Chair), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

Emilio Benfenati (IPC Co/Chari and Local Organizer), Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, Milano,  Italy.

Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim,  Norway.

Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Michael R. Berthold, University of Konstanz , Germany .

Eric G Bremer, Children's Memorial Hospital , Chicago , IL . USA .

Leon Bobrowski, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering. Warsaw , Poland.

Rui Meireles de Brito, University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal

Amilcar Cardoso, CISUC, University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal .

Chun-Hsi Huang,   University of Connecticut , USA .

Gustavo Deco, Institucion Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona , Spain .

Catherine DeSesa, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA .

Geerd Diercksen, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching , Germany .

Moustafa M Ghanem, Imperial College , London , UK .

Robin Gras, Proteome Informatics Group of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

Des Higgins, University College Cork , Ireland .

Seiya Imoto, University of Tokyo , Japan

Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada .

Stephanie McKeown, University of Ulster , Northern Ireland .

Astrid Lægreid, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim , Norway .

Michael Liebman, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , USA

Alain Mille, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1. LIRIS, France.

Ray C. Paton, University of Liverpool , UK .

Enric Plaza , (IIIA-CSIC), Catalonia , Spain .

Mathilde Romberg, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM), Jülich , Germany .

Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia .

Vijayraghavan Sundararajan, Pune University, India.

Brigitte Trousse, INRIA, AxIS Project-Team, Sophia-Antipolis , France .

Danny van Welden, University of Gent, Belgium .

Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna , Austria .

Venue: Mario Negri Institute

Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri. Milano-Italy

 http://www.marionegri.it

The Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research is a scientific organization for research and education in the biomedical field. Legally incorporated in 1961, the Institute started its activity in Milan on February 1st, 1963. The aim of the Institute is to improve the quality of human health and life. To achieve this goal, investigations on the biological mechanisms of living organisms and their susceptibility to disease or studies on the "behavior" of drugs inside the body are most valuable. Research methods range from the molecular level (molecular biology) to humans (clinical pharmacology and epidemiology).

 The Institute's three main fields of interest are: cancer, mental and nervous system disorders, and cardiovascular diseases. Beside these topics, the Institute is in the lead of computational predictive toxicology. Within this framework, the Institute activity counts on the most recent advances in the field of molecular description and computer science. Among all the departments,  the Laboratory of  Environmental Chemistry and Toxicity is currently the most active in this field. 

Hotels and Accommodation

Piccolo Hotel, two stars

        Via Piero della Francesca 60
20154 Milano
web: www.piccolohotelmilano.it
e-mail: piccolohotel@libero.it
tel: +39-0233601775
fax: +39-0233601756
Price for the Mario Negri: single room 60 euros, double 80 euros

Hotel Johnny, three stars
Via G. Prati 6
20145 Milano
e-mail: johnny.hotel@tiscali.it
tel: +39-02341812
fax: +39-0233610521
Price for the Mario Negri: single room 65 euros, double 85 euros

Enterprise Hotel, four star super
corso Sempione 91
20154
Tel.  +39 02 31818.1
Fax. +39 02 31818.811
Email: info@enterprisehotel.com

       Website:www.enterprisehotel.com

      Price for the Mario Negri: single room about 135 euros

There are also several web sites for hotels in Milano:

    http://www.expedia.it/

    http://www.venere.com

Traveling Information

There are three airports you can use to arrive to Milan : Linate, Malpensa and Orio al Serio. To reach Milan downtown from the airports some possibilities are as follows:

-         Linate (http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/Eng/Linate/default.htm) is quite near downtown and a taxi may cost 25€. Other possibilities are two buses: one goes to central station while another one (n°73, see A.T.M. web site www.atm-mi.it) goes directly to downtown.

-         Malpensa airport is near Varese (http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/Eng/Malpensa/). The cheaper solutions from Malpensa airport are Malpensa Express train and Malpensa Shuttle bus (there are two companies which operate at similar cost). The Malpensa Shuttle bus arrives to Stazione Centrale-Central Station- where there is a connection with and public transport and subway). For the Malpensa Express train there is the web site with the train’s timetable (http://www.ferrovienord.it/webmxp/ing/index.html). Malpensa Express train arrives at Cadorna station and this solution is very convenient to reach the “Mario Negri” Institute.

-         Orio al Serio airport is near Bergamo and you can find all the connections to Milan in the airport’s web site (http://www.sacbo.it/oldsite/inglese/homepage.htm).

When you arrive in Milan the easier way to arrive to the “Mario Negri” Institute is to take the bus number 57. For more details about public transport in Milan see the official web site (www.atm-mi.it). Bus 57 starts from Cadorna: you can find it on the left of the station exit. In about 30 minutes you will arrive to the Institute in via Eritrea 62 (see figure below: the bus stop is in front of the Mario Negri institute).

Please remember that you need to buy urban bus (such as 57 and 73) tickets in advance at newspaper shops or automatic machines and then stamp it on the bus (see Figure below).

The official web site of Milan contains useful information about how to arrive to downtown from airport, common transfer and city map (http://welmilano.itcons.com).