Organizing committee

Joaquín Dopazo
Fundación Progreso y Salud
(Andalusian Ministry of Health),
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain

Paweł P Łabaj
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and Boku University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Diane Kovats
International Society for Computational Biology, USA.

David P. Kreil
Boku University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Weida Tong
FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, USA

Wenzhong Xiao
Stanford Genome Technology Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA



Local organizing committee

Julia E Vogt
Institute of Machine Learning,
Department of Computer Science,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Contest data set coordinators

Cancer Prognosis Data Integration Challenge
David Kreil
Chair of Bioinformatics Research Group, Boku University, Vienna, Austria
Andre Kahles
Biomedical Informatics Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Metagenomics Forensics Challenge
Paweł P Łabaj
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

The CMap Drug Safety Challenge
Maciej Kańduła
Chair of Bioinformatics Research Group, Boku University, Vienna, Austria
Margherita Francescatto
Predictive Models for Biomedicine and Environment, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Scientific committee

Tim Beißbarth
Statistical Bioinformatics
University Medical Center Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany

Daniel Berrar
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan

Yana Bromberg
Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany
and
Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA

Djork-Arné Clevert
Bayer AG
Drug Discovery, Pharmaceuticals, Bioinformatics
Berlin, Germany

Susmita Datta
Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA

Joaquin Dopazo
Fundación Progreso y Salud
(Andalusian Ministry of Health),
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío
Seville, Spain

Eran Elhaik
Department of Animal & Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, U.K.

Margherita Francescatto
Predictive Models for Biomedicine and Environment
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Trento, Italy

Sepp Hochreiter
Institute of Bioinformatics
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Linz, Austria

David P. Kreil
Chair of Bioinformatics
Boku University Vienna
Austria

Wolfgang Huber
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany

Simon M. Lin
Chief Research Information Officer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH USA

Yves Moreau
K.U. Leuven
ESAT-SCD (Bioinformatics)
Leuven, Belgium

Ziv Shkedy
Center of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics
University Hasselt
Hasselt/Leuven, Belgium

Shraddha Thakkar
FDA National Center for Toxicological Research
Jefferson, USA

Armand Valsesia
Genetics Group
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences
Lausanne, Switzerland

Wenzhong Xiao
Immuno-Metabolic Computational Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
and
Computational Genomics lab, Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford CA, USA

Julie Zhu
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA