We are writing to invite you to submit your papers to the ICDM 2010 (http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/icdm10/) workshop on "Biological Data
Mining and its Applications in Healthcare" (http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html), which will be held in Sydney Australia on December 13 2010. ICDM, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, is one of the premier conferences in the field of Data Mining.

By co-locating with ICDM 2010, we hope the workshop will bring better awareness of interesting and challenging biological and medical problems
that inspire new data mining solutions, and attract the participation of researchers in the areas of data mining and machine learning who are
interested in the real-world applications of data mining in computational biology and healthcare.

1. Introduction

Scientists in biology and healthcare are facing a growing flood of biological and clinical data that they need to digest in their research.
However, their ability to generate large amounts of biological and clinical data may soon surpass their capacity to analyze and make sense
of the data generated in a timely fashion.  As scientists begin to translate their genomic research from bench to bedside, meaningful
observations and discoveries will have to be drawn from diverse data such as DNA microarrays, protein sequences, protein-protein
interactions, biological pathways, bio-images, electronic medical records, and biomedical literature.