2016
Initial Training Network "Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine" is ending

We are concluding our very successful Initial Training Network on "Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine" - happy about all we achieved, sad that it's over!
NIPS video online
Spotlight video for the paper "Finding significant combinations of features in the presence of categorical covariates" published at NIPS 2016.
Karsten chosen as one of the "Top 40 under 40" in 2016

Karsten was again included in the ranking "Top 40 under 40" in State & Society in Germany.
Krupp Symposium

On October 21, Karsten hosted the 2016 Krupp Symposium on "From Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine" at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.
New group member

Thomas Gumbsch joins the group.
MLCB at GitHub

We have consolidated the software and data from more than 20 research projects in one GitHub site.
Karsten at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM

Karsten visited the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern last week, and talked about "Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine" and "Significant Pattern Mining".
Karsten keynote speaker at the ECCB workshop in The Hague

Karsten was keynote speaker at the ECCB workshop on "Complex Network Analysis for Precision Medicine" in The Hague on September 3.
Paper accepted for NIPS 2016

Our most recent work in Significant Pattern Mining by Laetitia, Felipe, Dean and Karsten was accepted at NIPS 2016!
"Halting in Random Walk Kernels" by M. Sugiyama and K. Borgwardt ranked as one of the top 5 papers in 2015

The premier machine learning meeting in Japan ranked the NIPS paper "Halting in Random Walk Kernels" by Mahito Sugiyama and Karsten Borgwardt as one of the top 5 papers in 2015 (IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award Finalist)!
Dominik and Karsten contributed to the 1001 Genomes Project Flagship Paper

How do plants that, unlike humans and animals, cannot simply relocate adapt to environmental changes? How did plants spread over the continent and develop variations?
New group member

Lukas Folkman joins the group.
MLCB at the European Conference on Human Genetics

Barcelona, May 21-24, 2016.
New group member

Katharina Heinrich joins the group