The DILS conference aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in data integration and management for the life sciences. Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering are invited to share their knowledge and experience.
Topics of Interest

DILS provides a forum for the discussion of challenges and technical solutions to address data integration and management in the life sciences. In particular, the increasing availability of Big Data, coming from high-throughput analytical techniques, large clinical data repositories, biomedical literature and online resources, offers exciting opportunities and challenges to researchers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences
Query processing and optimization for biological data
Biological data sharing and update propagation
Query formulation assistance for scientists
Modeling of life sciences data
Biomedical data integration issues in eScience
Laboratory information management systems in biology (including workflow systems)
Quality assurance in integrated biological data repositories
Biomedical metadata management (including provenance)
Mining integrated life sciences data and text resources
Standards for biomedical data integration and annotation
Scientific results arising from innovative data integration solutions
Exposing biomedical data for integration (APIs, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints)
Creation and use of clinical data repositories
Data integration in clinical and translational research
Integration of genotypic and phenotypic data
Challenges and opportunities with big data in the life sciences
Ethical, legal and social issues with biomedical data integration.


Important dates

February 7, 2014: Abstract submission deadline

February 14,2014: Paper submission deadline

April 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance

May 3, 2014: Camera-ready copy due

July 17-18, 2014: Conference