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

生物信息学是一个跨越许多学科的新兴合作研究领域，包括生物学、计算机科学和统计学。数据数量和种类的爆炸性增长改变了研究格局，使模式分析、数据挖掘、信息融合和高效访问大型、多样化、分布式数据源变得重要。研讨会将汇聚生物学和数据库领域的研究人员。由于这些会议与一个关于数据工程的国际会议有关，数据库领域的许多领导人将出席。受邀的演讲者和经过评审的论文和小组报告将确保跨学科的代表性。研讨会的影响将不仅是向新的教职员工和学生介绍一系列跨学科的问题，还将突出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.