Selected papers from the 10th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Big Data (BIOKDD'19)

A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893).

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1. Institute for Informatics and Telematics, CNR, Pisa, Italy
2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: algorithms & data structures; bioinformatics & computational biology; machine learning; scalable data mining
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1. The Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication, and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineers of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, Tunisia
2. Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Tunis (FSEGT), University of Tunis-El Manar, Tunisia
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more biological data, i.e. data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA, and proteins).  The rise of next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS), also known as high-throughput sequencing technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data.  In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed worldwide in databases.  Analyzing biological big data is a challenging task, not only because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms.  Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study.  From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new in silico high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in the understanding of the correlations that exist between, on the one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms.  Biological Knowledge Discovery from Big Data (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. 
 
Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to:-
 
Data Preprocessing: biological big data storage, representation and management (e.g. data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways), biological big data cleaning (e.g. errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data), Feature Extraction (e.g. motifs, subgraphs), feature selection (e.g. filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches).
 
Data Mining: biological big data regression (e.g. regression of biological sequence), biological big data clustering/biclustering (e.g. microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences), biological big data classification (e.g. classification of biological sequence), association rules learning from biological big data, text mining and application to biological sequences, web mining and application to biological big data, parallel, cloud and grid computing for biological and scalable big data mining.
 
Data Postprocessing: biological nuggets of knowledge filtering, biological nuggets of knowledge representation and visualization, biological nuggets of knowledge evaluation (e.g. calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules via numerical indicators or measurements of interest), biological nuggets of knowledge integration.
 
The topics of interest to this Special Issue cover the scope of the International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Big Data (BIOKDD 2019) (http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2019).
 
Extended versions of selected papers presented at BIOKDD 2019 are invited, but this call for papers is open to anyone who wishes to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript.

Dr. Davide Verzotto
Prof. Dr. Mourad Elloumi
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