CAMDA 2021 Conference

CAMDA runs in collaboration with ISMB, which joins up with ECCB every other year. CAMDA is an established full conference track at ISMB, representing one of its Communities of Special Interests (COSIs). This gives you wide exposure and further opportunities for interaction with colleagues without separate registration fees. You just register for a 2 or 4-day ticket at ISMB, specifying CAMDA as your interest.

CAMDA focuses on one of the grand challenges of our time, the intelligent exploitation of Big Data in the life sciences. In the post-genomic era, an effective scientific interpretation of large datasets is key to new medical and biological insights from novel high throughput assays and the increasing size of biomedical studies. CAMDA puts a spotlight on the successful analysis and integration of the massive data sets now prevalent in the life sciences.

This year, recognizing the recent events, the scientific committee of CAMDA has set four data analysis contest challenges:

• The Disease Maps to modelling COVID-19 Challenge provides expert-curated molecular mechanistic maps for COVID-19 and large scale expression profiles. Combine them to expand our understanding of COVID-19 mechanisms – we can test the best suggestions experimentally!
• The Literature AI for Drug Induced Liver Injury Challenge provides biomedical publications curated by FDA experts on DILI. Build their digital twin to distinguish positives from a challenging negative set!
• The Metagenomic Phage Forensics of Anti-Microbial Resistance Challenge features diverse meta-genomics profiles from urban areas. Track emerging AMR and its spread by gene transfer through phages!
• The Hi-Res Cancer Data Integration Challenge presents clinical and matched molecular profiles, with read level data for individual genomes as well as expression estimated from novel genomic regions. Explore non-standard genomes and splicing events for better prognosis!

Leading scientists present their best methods and analyses in talks, complemented by poster sessions. Papers based on the submitted extended abstracts enter a fast track for publication in the open access, fully indexed conference proceedings at Frontiers in Genetics. Related method papers can enter the ISMB proceedings track of the Bioinformatics journal.

All delegates vote for the best-contributed analysis. The top three presenters are honoured each year, with the first prize being the prestigious CAMDA Trophy award.

We cordially invite you to attend and contribute to CAMDA, and look forward to seeing you this year - virtually or in person!   (Fellowships available)