Invited Talks -- Provenance Management for Data Exploration -- High-Performance Systems for in Silico Microscopy Imaging Studies -- Ontology Engineering -- Discovering Evolving Regions in Life Science Ontologies -- On Matching Large Life Science Ontologies in Parallel -- A System for Debugging Missing Is-a Structure in Networked Ontologies -- Web Services -- On the Secure Sharing and Aggregation of Data to Support Systems Biology Research -- Helping Biologists Effectively Build Workflows, without Programming -- A Data Warehouse Approach to Semantic Integration of Pseudomonas Data -- Data Mining and Text Mining -- The Cinderella of Biological Data Integration: Addressing Some of the Challenges of Entity and Relationship Mining from Patent Sources -- Algorithm for Grounding Mutation Mentions from Text to Protein Sequences -- Handling Missing Features with Boosting Algorithms for Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction -- Instance Discovery and Schema Matching with Applications to Biological Deep Web Data Integration -- Information Management -- Integrative Information Management for Systems Biology -- An Integration Architecture Designed to Deal with the Issues of Biological Scope, Scale and Complexity -- Quality Assessment of MAGE-ML Genomic Datasets Using DescribeX -- Search Computing: Integrating Ranked Data in the Life Sciences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2010, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, on August 25-27, 2010. The 14 revised papers included in this volume together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers cover the following topics: ontology engineering, web services, data mining and text mining and information management.