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ISIBio : Information Systems Integration in Biology

Schedule of the ISIBio Seminars

December 3, 2007 : ISIBio co-organisator of the international workshop : Web Data Integration and Mining for Life Sciences : WebDIM4LS
, In conjonction with the WISE'07 conference : dec 4-7, 2007, Nancy, France.
List of accepted papers - Workshop final schedule.

Invited conference by Dr. Phillip Lord , Newcastle University, about "spreading semantics over biology". Scheduled at 11:00 Monday, dec 3, 2007, LORIA room C103.

November 21, 2006 : Third ISIBio seminar in Nancy, LORIA - University Henri Poincare (Faculté des Sciences)
Program

December 12-13, 2005 : Second ISIBio seminar in Paris, Institut Pasteur
Program

July 5, 2005 : ACI IMPBio, satellite meeting of JOBIM 2005
Poster ISIBio

July 4, 2005 : ISIBio co-organisator of the first OGSB meeting
"Ontologie, Grille et Intégration Sémantique pour la Biologie : OGSB'05"
OGSB'05 will be held in Lyon as a satellite meeting of JOBIM'05

March 29-30, 2005 : First ISIBio seminar in Paris, Institut Curie
Program
Report about the first ISIBio seminar (french only :-( )

Context of the ISIBio project

The ISIBio project is a french interdisciplinary working group interested in various aspects of "Information Systems Integration in Biology". This animation structure is funded since July 2004 by the French Ministerial "Action Concertee Incitative ACI IMPBio ".

The creation in 2002 of the OntoBio ("Definition et gestion d’ontologies et de metadonnees pour la biologie") working group in the frame of the French Ministerial Action IMPG, was followed in 2003 by the creation of a CNRS ("Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique") STIC ("Sciences et Technologies de l'Information") Specific Action : AS127 entitled "Integration and interoperability of genomic data sources". This has favored meetings and discussions between a certain number of scientists from the french bioinformatics community, working in the field of Information Systems in Biology. Common topics of interest have been identified with respect to computer people as well as to biologists.
The interdisciplinary ISIBio working group has thus been created to continue this dynamics, by the means of organizing twice a year an international seminar.

Goals of the projet

The goals of this project are first to reinforce the existing collaborations and to stimulate new interactions at the national and international level. It is also expected that the international visibility of the french commmunity in this domain will benefit from this animation activity.

In the post-genomic era, the problems associated with information systems integration in biology remain of crucial importance despite of the numerous solutions proposed in the past few years. The reflexion will be mainly focused on the role of metadata and ontologies, first because they are needed to introduce the semantic dimension in the systems, second because their use prepare the scaling-up process announced by the grid projects

Topics of interest

The following topics in computer science are concerned by this project :

• interoperability of heterogeneous resources,
• mediation architectures,
• knowledge representation and management,
• semantic web-services,
• metadata production and usage,
• ontology construction and sharing.

Several relevant biological domains of applciation may be selected in order to better delineate the technical challenges of integration solutions that truly answers the needs of biologists. Transcriptome analysis is an example of such domains where various groups of data pertaining from heterogeneous sources need to be integrated in a flexible manner.
Interactions with the scientific community involved in the statistics and analysis of data for transcriptome studies, as well as with the community dealing with the computation grid for genomics will be established.

Project Organisation

The ISIBio seminar will take place twice a year. It will be preceded by a meeting of the ISIBio working group in order to discuss ongoing or future collaborations.

The ISIBio seminars will be free and open. Funding by the ACI IMPBio will allow to invite scientists from France and abroad for giving a conference at the seminar. An international level of excellence is expected.

Scientific committee

Marie-Dominique Devignes (coordinator)
LORIA-UMR7503 : Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (Equipe ORPAILLEUR)
BP239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy cedex

Philippe Bessières
MIG : Mathématiques, Informatique et Génomes
INRA, Jouy-en-Josas

Gwennaele Fichant
LMGM : Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire
UMR 5100, Toulouse

Christine Froidevaux
LRI : Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
UMR 8623, Orsay

Isabelle Mougenot
LIRMM : Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
UMR 5506, Montpellier

Malika Smaïl
LORIA-UMR7503 : Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (Equipe ORPAILLEUR)
BP239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy cedex