ECML-PKDD 2022 workshop on machine learning for microbial genomics

We invite submissions to MLMG 2022, the ECML-PKDD 2022 workshop on machine learning for microbial genomics to be held virtually, on September 23rd.

The improvement and increasing accessibility of Next Generation Sequencing data calls for innovative data analysis strategies to extract meaningful and actionable information. Machine learning approaches are more and more popular in this context, offering alternative and complementary tools beyond bioinformatics to analyze genomic data. However, despite the recent advances, their application remains challenging and new approaches that are robust, scalable to large-scale high-dimensional data and interpretable are needed.

This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers working at the interface of machine learning and computational biology for the study of microbial genomic data to discuss recent advances in this field. We will also have the privilege of hosting two distinguished speakers from this community to discuss and present their current research.

Typical topics of interest include:

- Improving microbial genome wide association studies (GWAS).
- Phenotype prediction from microbial genomes.
- Inferring population parameters from a set of microbial genomes.
- Visualization of microbial genomes in a way that highlights relevant
  elements with respect to a phenotype of interest.
- Study of the constitution of a microbial flora.

Key dates:

- Submission deadline: June 20th 2022 (instructions here)
- Decisions: July 13th 2022
- Online workshop: September 23rd

Meriem El Azami
Laurent Jacob
Flora Jay
Pierre Mahé

https://mlmg2022.github.io/