Dear Colleagues,
We are accepting paper submissions for the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) Special Session on "When biology gets personal: Hidden challenges of Privacy and Ethics in Biological Big Data". Please see below a list of relevant topics.
Submissions can be made through the main conference website. http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit.
The deadline is August 6, 2018. PSB key dates are listed at https://psb.stanford.edu/keydates/
For more information on the special session, please visit our website at http://homes.gersteinlab.org/people/gg487/PSB.html
Examples of topics within the scope of this session include but are not limited to:
- Quantification of private information leakage in data taken from genomics, proteomics, metagenomics, bioimaging, biosensors, and personal health trackers
- Privacy-preserving analysis and computation on biological data
- Re-identification attacks against biological databases and counter-measures to protect individuals' sensitive information
- Privacy enhancing techniques and file-formats for data sharing
- Ethical, legal issues and policy efforts in biological data sharing
- Storage and safety of biological data
- Application of privacy and cryptography measures to the protection of biological data
- Methods balancing openness of biological data and protection of individuals' sensitive information
We are also looking for experts in the field who could potentially evaluate submissions as reviewers.
We look forward to seeing you at PSB 2019! Please feel free to spread the word.
