Knowledge Discovery Using Big Data in Biomedical Systems

Sarath Chandra Janga, Dongxiao Zhu, Jake Y. Chen, Mohammed J. Zaki

Abstract: The papers in this special section were presented at the 13th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD’14) was organized in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining that was held on August 24, 2014 in New York, NY. It brought together international researchers in the interacting disciplines of data mining, systems biology, and bioinformatics at the Bloomberg Headquarters venue. The goal of this workshop is to encourage Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD) researchers to take on the numerous challenges that Bioinformatics offers.