SIGKDD

ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

June 2007, Volume 9, Issue 1

Guest Editors	Editor-In-Chief	Associate Editor
Raymond T. Ng University of British Columbia rng at cs.ubc.ca	Ramakrishnan Srikant Google explorations at rsrikant.com	Bing Liu Univ. of Illinois, Chicago liub at cs.uic.edu
Jian Pei Simon Fraser University jpei at cs.sfu.ca		Osmar R. Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada zaiane at cs.ualberta.ca

Special Issue: Data Mining for Health Informatics

Introduction to the Special Issue on Data Mining for Health Informatics

1

Raymond T. Ng, Jian Pei

Enabling More Sophisticated Gene Expression Analysis for Understanding Diseases and Optimizing Treatments

3

Donny Soh, Difeng Dong, Yike Guo, Limsoon Wong

Novel Approaches for Small Biomolecule Classification and Structural Similarity Search

14

Emre Karakoc, Artem Cherkasov, S. Cenk Sahinalp

Drug Exposure Side Effects from Mining Pregnancy Data

22

Yu Chen, Lars Henning Pedersen, Wesley W. Chu, Jorn Olsen

Automatic in vivo Microscopy Video Mining for Leukocytes

30

Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Lin Yang, Xin Chen, John K. Johnstone

Interviews

Interview with Simon Funk

38

Gregory Piatetsky

Contributed Articles

Unsupervised pattern mining from symbolic temporal data

41

Fabian Moerchen

Reports

5th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (KDID06): Workshop Report

56

Saso Dzeroski, Jan Struyf