International Conference:

Data Mining for Bioinformatics - Towards In Silico Biology

10 - 12 November 1999

EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge, UK

During the last few years bioinformatics has been overwhelmed with
increasing floods of data, both in terms of volume and in terms of new
databases and new types of data. We are now entering the post-genomic
age, where, in addition to complete genome sequences, we are learning
about gene expression patterns and protein interactions on genomic
scales. This poses new challenges: old ways of dealing with data item
by item are no longer sustainable. It also creates new opportunities
for discovering biological knowledge "in silico" by data mining.

Data mining is defined as "exploration and analysis by automatic and
semi-automatic means, of large quantities of data in order to discover
meaningful patterns and rules". Our conference on 'Data mining for
Bioinformatics' will bring together researchers interested in both
fields, with the aim of generating new ideas and insights into how to
tackle the challenge of floods of data in molecular biology. We will
cover data mining applications in molecular sequence and structure
data, in gene expression and other high thru-put data, and in  existing
knowledge buried in large biological texts.

For more information and the registration see
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/projects/Events/datamining99