Data intensive disciplines like life sciences and medicine are promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available information to study biomedical systems ranging from single cells to complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include but are not limited to:
Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology:
Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. Often there is a long way from an idea to practical application which involves intensive discussion between experts in information technology, life sciences and medicine. ITBAM accompanies and supports this way by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction among interdisciplinary researchers.
In addition to the regular conference program featuring presentations of full and short research papers published in the proceedings, ITBAM encourages the submission of posters reporting work in progress. All accepted posters will be displayed during the whole event and abstracts will also be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES
ITBAM conference papers and poster submissions:
Paper Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions or experience reports in English. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings.
Accepted Papers:
All accepted conference papers will be published in “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted full papers will be of 15 pages length, short papers 8 pages. Authors of accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release form. For further inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela at dexa.org).
General Chairperson:
Christian Böhm, University of Munich, Germany Program Committee Co-chairpersons:
Sami Khuri, San José State University, USA Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Program Committee:
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