Call for Book Chapters: Database Technology for Life Sciences and Medicine

Call for Book Chapters Database Technology for Life Sciences and Medicine Book edited by Claudia Plant (Technische Universität München) and Christian Böhm (University of Munich) to be published by World Scientific Publishing http://www.worldscientific.com/ Short Summary of the Book Scope and Content: Life sciences and medicine are very data intensive disciplines. Modern technologies such as micro-arrays, high-throughput mass-spectrometry, high-resolution imaging, and huge literature databases provide new challenges for scientists and medical practitioners. There has never been more potentially available information to study biological systems like cells, organs, or patients. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into useful information supporting scientific progress and/or patient management. This book focuses on major challenges for research in the database community to support applications in life sciences and medicine. Topics include but are not limited to: - Data integration, - Database-supported process management in healthcare, - Electronic patient record, - Data exchange in healthcare (standards and markup languages), - Design of information systems and data warehouses for biological and medical applications, - Mining biological and medical data: clustering, classification, rule-mining, - Integrative mining of heterogeneous data, - Integration of data mining primitives into biological and medical databases, - Biological and medical image processing and -retrieval, - Privacy in data management and data mining. Target Audience: Starting from the question how to effectively store and organize biomedical data via data quality and case studies, ranging to sophisticated data mining methods, this book provides an insight into the state-of-the-art of database technology for life sciences and medicine. This book will be inspiring for students and researchers from informatics who are interested to contribute to this emerging field of nterdisciplinary research. It will also be a valuable source of information for experts in life sciences who want to be updated about the possibilities of database technology in their field. We are convinced that the readers will benefit from the book in various ways: - Computer scientists, researchers as well as students will find examples of real world biomedical problems. - The solutions presented in this book will be an inspiring source of ideas for researchers in computer science, since many of the presented approaches contain generic solutions which may be transferred to different domains in and beyond biomedicine. - This book will also be designed to be attractive and a valuable source of information for experts from life sciences and medicine. The introductory chapter will illustrate basic concepts from databases and data mining. Much care will be taken to make this chapter understandable for readers who are not experts in computer science. We will also instruct the authors of all other contributions to explain their concepts in a clear way for those who are not experts in databases and data mining. In summary, this book will bring together experts from both fields biomedicine and computer science and facilitate interdisciplinary work. Interdisciplinary work is mandatory to make best use of the available information for scientific progress in biomedicine. Important Dates: Chapter Submission: December, 1st 2009 Chapter Preparation: Chapters should be of length of approximately 5,000-8,000 words. Please use the LaTex template http://www.worldscientific.com/style/books_style.shtml for preparation of your chapter (size 9.00 x 6.00) Submission Procedure: Please submit your chapter as a PDF document till December, 1st 2009 by email to plant@lrz.tum.de All chapters will be peer-reviewed. Notification of acceptance will in early 2010. If you are not sure if your chapter fits to the scope of the book you may also send a draft of your proposal (e.g. abstract/table of content) to plant@lrz.tum.de We are looking forward to your contributions! Claudia Plant and Christian Böhm -- Dr. Claudia Plant Department for Neuroradiology Technische Universität München Phone: +49-89-4140-7631 Email: plant@lrz.tum.de http://www.neurokopfzentrum.med.tum.de/neuroradiologie/3215en.html -- Prof. Dr. Christian Böhm Institute for Informatics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Phone: +49-89-2180-9194 Fax: +49-89-2180-9192 Email: boehm@ifi.lmu.de http://www.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/~boehm