<div dir="ltr"><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Please kindly circulate this to interested graduate students, post-docs and faculty.</span></p><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Call For Submissions</span></p><br style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">We invite submissions to the Workshop on Computational Biology <<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/compbioworkshopicml2016/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/compbioworkshopicml2016/</a>> to be held in conjunction with ICML 2016 <<a href="http://icml.cc/2016/" target="_blank">http://icml.cc/2016/</a>> conference in New York City, NY (June 19-24, 2016). In Computational Biology, there has been credible developments in many high-throughput technologies such as next-generation sequencing, CyToF and single-cell sequencing that enable data generation from many interesting biological systems. The gamut of novel algorithms in Machine Learning makes it very attractive to apply these methods to the challenging biological questions. It therefore only seems befitting to bring together researchers engaged in applying ML in Computational Biology to discuss recent advances in this interdisciplinary field and ongoing developments. We have invited several distinguished speakers from the Computational Biology community to discuss and present their current research. We also invite extended abstracts dealing with applications of ML methods or bioinformatics approaches to biological and biomedical data. </span></p><br style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Important Dates</span></p><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Deadline for submissions : May 1, 2016 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Notification of acceptance : May 10, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop date : June 24th 2016 (Friday, second day of workshops)</span></p><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Submission </span></p><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">All novel Computational Biology approaches are of interest to the workshop. We welcome original extended abstracts that present recently published work as well as preliminary ideas. Extended abstracts should not exceed 4 pages in length (plus 1 optional page for references) and should be in pdf format (one column, font size 12). The submission need not be anonymized. If the abstract concerns previously published work, please cite the original paper in the workshop submission. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">All accepted contributions shall be presented at the poster session. Awards for Best Poster Presentations will be sponsored by Google.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">In addition, a set of best submissions will also have the opportunity to present their work as Contributed Talks, and will receive Travel Awards sponsored by IBM Research. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Accepted abstracts will have the option of being published on the workshop website. For authors who do not wish their abstracts to be posted online or become citable, please mention this in the workshop submission. </span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Submissions should be made through the EasyChair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compbioworkshopicml2" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compbioworkshopicml2</a>> system. </span></p><br style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Invited Speakers</span></p><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Barbara Engelhardt, Princeton <span class="">University</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Research </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center </span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Registration</span></p><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">All participants must register for the ICML 2016 conference.</span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">*Contact</span></p><div class="" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:13px"><div id=":ex" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:13px"><span class="im"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">For workshop-related queries please contact: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:icml2016compbio@gmail.com" target="_blank">icml2016compbio@gmail.com</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">We are looking forward to your submissions!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Organizing Committee:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">Dana</span> <span class="">Pe</span>'<span class="">er</span>, <span class="">Columbia</span> <span class="">University</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Elham Azizi, <span class="">Columbia</span> <span class="">University</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Sandhya Prabhakaran, <span class="">Columbia</span> <span class="">University</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton <span class="">University</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard <span class="">University</span><br></span></p><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">Volker Roth, <span class="">University</span> of Basel</span></span></div></div>