<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt">BrainKDD: The 3</span><sup style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">nd</sup><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt"> International Workshop on Data Mining and Visualization for Brain Science</span></p><p align="center" style="font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">in conjunction with</span></p><p align="center" style="font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB'16)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p><p align="center" style="font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">October 2nd, 2016, Seattle, USA</span></p><p align="center" style="font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/brainkdd2016/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/brainkdd2016/</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Understanding brain function is one of the greatest challenges facing science. Today, brain science is experiencing rapid changes and is expected to achieve major advances in the near future. In April 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama formally announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative. In Europe, the European Commission has recently launched the European Human Brain Project (HBP). In the private sector, the Allen Institute for Brain Science is embarking on a new 10-year plan to generate comprehensive, large-scale data in the mammalian cerebral cortex under the MindScope project. These ongoing and emerging projects are expected to generate a deluge of data that capture the brain activities at different levels of organization. There is thus a compelling need to develop the next generation of data mining, visualization and knowledge discovery tools that allow one to make sense of this raw data and to understand how neurological activity encodes information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">This workshop will focus on exploring the forefront between computer science and brain science and inspiring fundamentally new ways of mining, visualization and knowledge discovery from a variety of brain data. The presentations and discussions of this workshop will lead to novel insight sand knowledge on the function and dysfunction of brain at various levels, ranging from molecular, cellular, circuitry to systems levels by mining, integrating, and interpreting large-scale, multi-modality brain data. This will be achieved by bringing together neuroscientists and computer scientists in a dedicated workshop that consists of invited talks, paper and poster presentations, and interactive panel discussions. The list of tentative topics includes:</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of <i>in situ</i> hybridization and microarray gene expression data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of brain connectivity and circuitry data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of structural and functional MRI data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of EEG and related data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of temporal developing brain data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of spatial neuroimaging data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Integrative mining of multi-modality brain data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Mining of diseased brain data, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Segmentation and registration of neuroimaging data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Visualization of brain connectivity data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Visualization of neuroimaging data</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Visualization of brain genetics data</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Important Dates:</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Workshop paper submissions:  June 17, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Workshop paper notifications:  July 15, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Final submission of workshop program and materials:    July 29, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Workshop date:                 October 2, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submission Instructions:</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Papers should be prepared using the ACM Proceedings Format </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> and should be at most 10 pages long. Authors are encouraged to submit shorter papers than the maximal length. Paper should be submitted in PDF format through the following link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brainkdd2016" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brainkdd2016</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Publication:</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The authors of accepted workshop papers will be invited to adapt their papers for being published in BMC Bioinformatics (impact factor 2.6), or Brain Informatics, subject to additional peer reviews.</span><br></div>