Workshop on Bioinformatics in conjunction with ICDE 2003 to be held in Bangalore, India on March 5-8, 2003.

生物信息学是一个新兴的合作研究领域，横跨许多学科，包括生物学、计算机科学和统计学。数据量和种类的爆炸性增长已经改变了研究领域，模式分析、数据挖掘、信息融合以及对大型、多样化、分布式数据源的高效访问变得非常重要。研讨会将汇集生物学和数据库方面的研究人员。由于会议与数据工程的国际会议有关，因此将有许多数据库领域的领导人出席。邀请演讲者和评审论文和小组报告将确保跨学科的代表性。研讨会的影响不仅是将新的教师和学生引入跨学科的一系列问题，而且还突出了数据工程中的生物信息学领域。

Bioinformatics is an emerging collaborative area of research spanning many disciplines, including biology, computer science, and statistics. Explosive growth in the amount and variety of data has changed the research landscape to one where pattern analysis, data mining, information fusion and efficient access to large, diverse, distributed data sources have become important. The workshop will bring together researchers in biology and databases. Because the meetings is associated with an international conference on data engineering, many leaders in the area of databases will be present. Invited speakers and refereed papers and panel presentations will insure cross-disciplinary representation. The impact of the workshop will not only be the introduction of new faculty and students to an interdisciplinary set of problems, but also highlight the area of bioinformatics in data engineering.