Conference is organized by
the NSF funded
Centre for Biological Language Modeling
In cooperation with the
AAAI
Scope
Integration
of language technologies in bioinformatics/computational biology research
Protein sequences from
different organisms may be viewed as texts written in different languages. The
mapping of protein sequence to their structure, dynamics and function then
becomes analogous to the mapping of words to meaning in natural languages.
This analogy can be exploited by application of statistical language modeling
and text classification techniques to biological sequences, thereby generating
testable hypotheses regarding the fundamental building blocks of “protein
sequence language”. The biology-language analogy enables novel applications
of language technologies to the biology domain, but is to a great extent
overlapping with existing other computational biology/bioinformatics
applications. The purpose of the Biological Language Conference is to
facilitate scientific exchange between researchers using the language analogy
approach directly and researchers using other approaches.