2016 Workshop on Bioinformatics for Precision

精准医疗是疾病治疗和预防的新方法。它考虑了基因组学组成，环境和生活方式的个体差异，以确定更个性化的治疗。由于精准医学在很大程度上依赖于个体基因组学和蛋白质组学标记来进行疾病诊断和适当的治疗选择，因此计算模型和信号处理是重要的组成部分。PI建议与2016年IEEE生物医学和健康信息学国际会议（BHI）一起组织生物信息学精准研讨会（研讨会）。讲习班的一个重要使命是促进研究生，特别是妇女和少数民族学生的参与，并促进学生关于精确医学计算生物学的教育。这笔赠款将用于向论文质量高的合格研究生提供旅费，以支持他们参加会议。工作坊的组织包括学生奖励委员会，该委员会将负责评估和选择学生获奖者。特别是，20-30%的奖金将用于鼓励妇女和少数民族学生参加讲习班并向讲习班提交论文。 该研讨会的目标是为生物信息学和计算生物学研究人员提供一个独特的平台，特别是IEEE医学和生物学工程学会（EMBS）和信号处理学会，以便在他们之间以及与生物医学和健康信息学社区的其他人进行互动和交流研究思想，并讨论未来的挑战。随着集成生物信息学和医学信息学方法成为精准医学的重点领域之一，该研讨会具有独特的地位，可以激发新的想法，促进这两个社区的研究人员之间的新合作。 研讨会的主题将是精准医学，并将解决精准医学中的计算问题。

Precision medicine is a new approach for disease therapy and prevention. It considers individual variability in genomics makeups, environment, and lifestyle in determining a more personalized treatment. As precision medicine heavily relies on individual genomics and proteomics markers for disease diagnosis and proper treatment selection, computation models and signal processing are important components. The PIs propose to organize the Workshop on Bioinformatics for Precision (the Workshop) in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2016. An important mission of the Workshop is to promote participation of graduate students, especially women and minority students, and foster student education on computational biology for precision medicine. This grant will be used to provide travel awards to qualified graduate students, whose papers are deemed of high quality, to support their participation in the conference. The Workshop organization includes the student award committee, which will be responsible for evaluation and selection of student awardees. Particularly, 20-30% of the awards will be allocated to encourage women and minority students to participate and submit papers to the Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to provide a unique platform for the bioinformatics and computational biology researchers in especially IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and Signal Processing Society to interact and exchange research ideas among them and with others in Biomedical and Health Informatics community and discuss future challenges in Precision Medicine. As integrated bioinformatics and medical informatics approaches become one of the focus areas in Precision Medicine, this workshop is uniquely positioned to spark novel ideas and promote new collaborations between researchers in these two communities. The theme of workshop will be precision medicine and will address the computational issues in precision medicine.