Call for Participation

	                 BIOKDD 2002  
	     2nd Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
        	  http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD02/

    		    in conjunction with
    	       8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference 
	    on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'2002)

              July 23, 2002,  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada                 

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk
How Can Data Mining Help Bio-Data Analysis? 
Professor Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Structure Mining

Mining Protein Contact Maps 
Jingjing Hu, Xiaolan Shen, Yu Shao, Chris Bystroff, Mohammed J. Zaki 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA	

Automated Approaches for Classifying Structures  
Mukund Deshpande, Michihiro Kuramochi, George Karypis 
University of Minnesota, USA

Clustering and Classifying Enzymes in Metabolic Pathways:  
Some Preliminary Results 
Sen Zhang, Li Liao, Jean-Francois Tomb, Jason T. L. Wang 			
DuPont Experimental Station, USA and New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Generalization Methods in Bioinformatics 
Steven Eschrich, Nitesh V. Chawla, Lawrence O. Hall 
University of South Florida, USA

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Data Mining and Drug Design

Incremental Machine Learning to Reduce Biochemistry Lab Costs 
in the Search for Drug Discovery 
George Forman 
Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

Gram-Schmidt Kernels Applied to Structure Activity Analysis for Drug Design 
Huma Lodhi, Yike Guo 
Imperial College, University of London, UK

Closed Set Mining of Biological Data 
John L. Pfaltz, Christopher M. Taylor 
University of Virginia, USA

2:30 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:00 Gene Expression

E-CAST: A Data Mining Algorithm for Gene Expression Data       
Abdelghani Bellaachia, David Portnoy, Yidong Chen, Abdel. G. Elkahloun
The George Washington University, USA and National Institute of Health, USA

Visualized Classification of Multiple Sample Types
Li Zhang, Aidong Zhang , Murali Ramanathan 
State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

GEA: A Toolkit for Gene Expression Analysis
Jessica M. Phan, Raymond Ng, Man Saint Yuen, Steve Jones 
University of British Columbia, Canada and 
British Columbia Genome Sequence Centre, Canada