13th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2018) The Thirteenth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2018 (DILS 2018) will be held by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Hannover (Germany) at Leibnizhaus on November 20-21, 2018. https://events.tib.eu/dils2018/ In addition, the TIB will hold a pre-conference on "Data Integration in the Life Sciences and Semantic Technologies" on November 19, 2018 and a post-conference on "Open Research Knowledge Graph" on November 22, 2018. DILS 2018 is being hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB in Hannover), L3S Research Center Leibniz Universität Hannover (L3S in Hannover) and ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences (ZB MED in Cologne/Bonn) Important Dates Paper submission deadline for research papers: July 6th, 2018 Paper submission deadline for industry, demonstration, and application/experience papers: July 13th, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 4th, 2018 Camera-ready copy due: September 17th, 2018 Conference days: Tutorials on "Data Integration in the Life Sciences and Semantic Technologies": November 20th, 2018 Main conference: November 20-21, 2018 Workshop on "Open Research Knowledge Graph": November 22rd, 2018 Keynote Speakers Catia Pesquita. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Alfred Pühler. Universität Bielefeld, Germany Aims and Scope DILS provides a forum for the discussion of data management on the life sciences, including open problems and technical solutions for integration, query processing, and analytics. In particular, the thirteenth edition of DILS will focus on Big life science data coming from diverse data sources, e.g., genomic data collections, biomedical literature, or clinical records, and in the challenges for transforming Big data into actionable insights. Topics of Interests and Research Areas: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Challenges and opportunities with big, complex or heterogeneous life science data Life science data integration and management Authenticity, privacy, security, and trust in life science data Knowledge graphs from life science data Knowledge representation and discovery from life science data Knowledge extraction for life science data Ontology mappings and evolution Quality assurance in integrated life science repositories Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences Query processing and optimization Question answering over life science data Exposing life science data (APIs, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints) Metadata and Provenance Management of life science repositories Analytics of large-scale life science data Ethical, legal and social issues with biomedical data integration. Data integration challenges and applications in various life-sciences Applications using and managing Big life science data Industry papers, demos and application/experiences are also welcome to DILS 2018. They will be selected according to industry-compliant assessment criteria. Paper Submission and Publication Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor and practical relevance to DILS 2018. Four types of papers will be selected: Full research papers (up to 15 pages) Short research papers (8 pages) Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages) Demos and Posters (4 pages) Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates And submitted using the EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2018 Special Issue on “Data Quality of Life Sciences” Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Special issue on “Data Quality on Life Sciences” of the ACM Journal of “Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)” Organizing Committee General Chair: Sören Auer. Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Organizing Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover Dietrich Nelle, ZB-Med Katrin Hanebutt, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Programme Chair: Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology, Germany and Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela Program Committee Following is the list of (confirmed) program committee members not in any particular order: Cédric Pruski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Bernd Müller, ZB MED Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany Konrad Förstner,Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany Juliane Fluck, Fraunhofer, Germany Marcos Da Silveira, LIST- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, , Luxembourg Naveen Ashish, Taming Disease with Data Science, USA José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, USA Ulf Leser, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany Michel Dumontier, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Alejandro Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Catia Pesquita, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Angeli Moeller, Bayer, Germany Pierre Larmande, Université de Montpellier, France Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Irland Johanna Voelker, Bayer, Germany Matthias Gietzelt, Hannover Medical School, Germany Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden Anika Groß, Universität Leipzig, Germany