We enthusiastically invite you to attend this year's conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA). CAMDA was founded in 2000 to provide a forum for the critical assessment of different techniques used in large-scale data analysis in the life-sciences, such as for high-dimensional gene expression profiling. It aims to establish state-of-the-art analysis methods, as well as identify progress and highlight promising directions for future efforts. To this end, CAMDA adopted the approach of a scientific community-wide contest, with everybody analysing the same data sets. Researchers worldwide are invited to take the CAMDA challenge, which has become a prominent fixture (cf. Nature Methods 5, 569). Accepted contributions are presented through talks and posters, and the results and methods of the different analyses are discussed and compared at the conference.

As a special focus this year, we consider the integrated analysis of a particularly rich structured data set that includes gene and miRNA expression, DNA SNPs, copy number variation, and methylation for about 500 matched samples. With the fast ongoing development of novel genome-wide experimental techniques (such as next generation sequencing), an assessment of how we can gain better insight from an integration of heterogeneous large-scale data is particularly topical.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Public release of Contest Data Set definition: Jan 17, 2011
Extended Abstract Proposals Due: May 23, 2011
Abstract deadline for Poster Submission: May 23, 2011
Notification of accepted contributions: May 30, 2011
Early registration closes: Jun 3, 2011
FGED 2011 Conference: Jul 12-14, 2011
CAMDA 2011 Conference: Jul 15-16, 2011
ISMB/ECCB 2011 Conference: Jul 17-19, 2011
Full paper submission (for publication): Aug 16, 2011

OTHER LINKS:
Call for papers: http://papers.camda.info/


Contest dataset: http://contest.camda.info/
Keynotes/agenda

: http://agenda.camda.info/


Registration: http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011-registration#camda