DILS04 : Call for Participation

DILS-04, Call for Participation

First International Workshop on
Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2004)

University of Leipzig, Germany
March 25-26, 2004
http://izbi.uni-leipzig.de/dils04

DILS-04 is a new bioinformatics workshop
focussing on data management and data integration.
The program committee accepted after a careful
evaluation process 13 long and 2 short papers.
Workshop highlights will be two invited talks by
Thure Etzold (architect of SRS, and president of 
Lion Bioscience) and
Svante Paeboo (Director Max-Planck-Institute 
for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Detailed information on the program,
invited speakers, location and registration 
can be found on the workshop website 
http://izbi.uni-leipzig.de/dils04

Online registration is open. 
Early registration deadline is March 1. 
The workshop takes place at the same time as the 
famous Leipzig book fair. The DILS04 organizers 
have reserved hotel rooms for participants but
fast reservation is highly recommended. 
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Preliminary Program 

Thursday March 25, 2004        

08:30  REGISTRATION
09:15 Session 1: Opening and Invited Talk   
09:15  Welcome Erhard Rahm, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany   
09:30  Invited Talk 1: Thure Etzold, Lion BioScience, Cambridge, UK 

11:15 Session 2: Scientific and Clinical Workflows       
  An Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific Workflows 
  S. Bowers, B. Ludäscher, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA       

  PROVA: Rule-based Java-Scripting for a Bioinformatics Semantic Web 
  A. Kozlenkov, M. Schroeder, City Univ., London / TU Dresden, UK / Germany     
  

  Process Based Data Logistics: A Solution for Clinical Integration Problems 
  S. Jablonski, R. Lay, C. Meiler, S. Müller 
  Univ. of Erlangen, Germany 

14:00 Session 3:   Ontologies and Taxonomies       
  Domain-Specific Concepts and Ontological Reduction within a Data Dictionary 
Framework 
  B. Heller, H. Herre, K. Lippoldt, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany       

  A Universal Character Model and Ontology of Defined Terms for Taxonomic 
Description 
  T. Paterson, J. B. Kennedy, M. R. Pullan, A. Cannon, K. Armstrong, M. F. 
Watson, 
  C. Raguenaud, S. M. McDonald, G. Russell, Napier Univ. / Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, UK  

  On the Application of Formal Principles to Life Science Data: 
  A Case Study in the Gene Ontology 
  B. Smith, J. Köhler, A. Kumar, 
  Univ. at Buffalo / Univ. of Leipzig / Univ. of Bielefeld, USA / Germany 

16:00 Session 4:  Indexing and Clustering       
  Index-driven XML Data Integration to Support Functional Genomics 
  E. Hunt, E. Pafilis, I. Tulloch, J. Wilson
  Univ. of Glasgow / Univ. of Strathclyde, UK       

  Heterogeneous Data Integration with the Consensus Clustering Formalism 
  V. Filkov, S. Skiena, UC Davis / SUNY at Stony Brook, USA   

17:15 Session 5: Sponsor Presentations       (to be announced)      
   
19:30 WORKSHOP DINNER

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Friday March 26, 2004         

09:00 Session 6: Invited Talk 2: Svante Pääbo
    Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

11:00 Session 7: Integration Tools and Systems      
  LinkSuite: Formally Robust Ontology-based Data and Information Integration 
  W. Ceusters, B. Smith, J. M. Fielding, 
  Language & Computing mv / Univ. of Leipzig, Belgium/Germany       

  BioDataServer: An Applied Biomolecular Data Integration Service 
  S. Balko, M. Lange, R. Schnee, U. Scholz 
  Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben, Germany     
  

  COLUMBA: Multidimensional Data Integration of Protein Annotations 
  K. Rother, H. Müller, S. Trissl, I. Koch, T. Steinke, R. Preissner, C. 
Frömmel, U. Leser
  Charité / Humboldt Univ. / Technische Fachhochschule / Zuse Institute Berlin, 
Germany   

13:45 Session 8: Integration Techniques       
  On the Integration of a Large Number of Life Science Web Databases 
  Z. B. Miled, N. Li, Y. Liu, Y. He, E. Lynch, O. Bukhres,
  Indianapolis Univ., USA       

  Efficient Techniques to Explore and Rank Paths in Life Science Data Sources 
  Z. Lacroix, L. Raschid, M.-E. Vidal, 
  Arizona State Univ. / Univ. of Maryland / Univ. Simon Bollivar, USA / 
Venezuela       

  Links and Paths through Life Science Data Sources (Short paper) 
  Z. Lacroix, H. Murthy, F. Naumann, L. Raschid, 
  Arizona State Univ. / Univ. of Maryland / Humboldt Univ. Berlin, USA / 
Germany       

  Pathway and Protein Interaction Data: From XML to FDM Database (Short paper)  
 
  G. Kemp, Selpi, Challmers Univ. of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden   

15:15  Concluding Remarks 
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