NIPS workshop on New Problems and Methods in
Computational Biology
December 18th, 2004, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Description:
This supplement issue consists of 10 peer-reviewed papers and one review
article based on the NIPS Workshop on New Problems and Methods in
Computational Biology held at Whistler, Canada on December 18th, 2004. This
workshop is designed to bring together machine learning and computational
biology researchers to develop fundamentally new methods for analyzing
biological data.
We received submissions both from the presenters at the workshop as well as
non-presenters. Submitted manuscripts were rigorously reviewed by at least two
referees. The quality of each paper was evaluated on the contributions to biology
conference is a leading machine learning conference, we required technical
novelty and mathematical rigor in methodology.
We would like to thank the workshop presenters and participants who made this
special issue possible. Special thanks go to the editors of BMC Bioinformatics
who advised us in preparing the manuscripts. Finally we acknowledge the
financial support by PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and
Computational Learning,) a newly launched European Network of Excellence
(NoE).
Editors:
• Gal Chechik, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
• Christina Leslie, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia
University
• Gunnar Rätsch, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
• Koji Tsuda, AIST Computational Biology Research Center (Tokyo)
Program Committee:
• Kristin Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Nello Cristianini, UC Davis
• Eleazar Eskin, UC San Diego
• Nir Friedman, Hebrew University and Harvard
• Dan Geiger, The Technion
• Michael I. Jordan, UC Berkeley
• Alexander Hartemink, Duke University
• Klaus-Robert Müller, Fraunhofer FIRST
• William Stafford Noble, University of Washington
• Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
• Alexander Schliep, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
• Eran Segal , Stanford University