Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a special session on “Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks” in ISIBM conference (2009 ISIBM International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing). Please refer the call for paper in http://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/sessions.html for more information of this special sessions (The main conference web site is at http://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/index.html).

The conference will be held in Shanghai, China in Aug 3-6 and the deadline to submit your paper is February 15, 2009.

Please submit your paper to organizer by email
Dr. Xiaoli Li, xlli@ntu.edu.sg
Dr. Erliang Zeng, zeng@cs.miami.edu

Call for papers
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Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks

Session Chairs:
Dr. Xiaoli Li, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, xlli@ntu.edu.sg
Dr. Erliang Zeng, Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, USA,
zeng@cs.miami.edu

Biological processes in the cell are mostly carried out by complex protein interactions between protein molecules. In recent years, high-throughput methods (e.g. yeast-two-hybrid and tandem affinity purification – mass spectrometry etc) for detecting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have enabled researchers to construct large-scale PPI networks for various species. In these PPI networks, a node represents individual protein, and a link between two corresponding nodes denotes a physical interaction between the protein pair. Such networks provide researchers unprecedented opportunities to develop new bioinformatics methods to discover the novel biological knowledge.

The objective of this special session is to disseminate the best research results from cross-disciplinary researchers (biologists, computer scientists and mathematicians etc) working on analysing and mining protein interaction networks. We hope this special session can promote the researchers to exchange ideas, discuss the biological fundamentals, as well as inspire new computational solutions for these interesting and challenging problems.

The scope of this special session includes, but not limited to, protein interaction prediction, protein interaction network cleansing, protein complex/functional module detection, network motif discovery, protein function prediction, protein interaction networks and diseases, comparative genomics, PPI network analysis by integrating with other biological resources, network alignment /querying and visualization tools etc.

The authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the instructions given in the conference website. Please submit your manuscripts to the session chairs directly (via email) before February 15, 2009.