[Computational-biology] Last Call for Abstracts: Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories (NETTAB 2013)

[Nicola Cannata]

Late abstracts submission for Oral Presentations are welcome until
Wednesday July 31!

On July Wednesday 31 it expires also the deadline for Posters and
Industrial-Technological Communications.

The Proceedings of the workshop will be published by EMBnet.journal, an
Open Access, peer-reviewed publication.

Full papers from abstracts presented at NETTAB 2013 will be published in a
peer-reviewed, indexed, international journal that will soon be announced.
To this aim, a special, restricted Call for papers will be launched before
the workshop.



Abstracts must be submitted at
http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/

The length of abstracts for oral communications, including the
Industrial-technological communications, should be between 3 and 4 pages,
including no more than TWO tables / figures. The length of abstracts for
posters should be between 2 and 3 pages, including no more than ONE table
or figure. All abstracts should include the following sections: Motivation
and Objectives, Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements,
References.

The abstract must be prepared by using the template
http://www.nettab.org/2013/docs/Nettab_abstractTemplate.doc



NETTAB is a yearly series of workshops focused on the most promising and
innovative ICT tools and to their usefulness in Bioinformatics. These
workshops aim to introduce participants to the evolving network standards
and technologies that are being applied to the biology field.

Learn more about NETTAB at http://www.nettab.org.



NETTAB2013, an affiliated conference of ISCB, will explore mobile, social,
and semantic solutions for bioinformatics and biomedical labs. A savvy
combination of these technologies could enhance the research outcome of
life scientists and simplify workflows in biomedical laboratories. Newer
forms of social technologies are facilitating communication, making
information sharing easier, and enhancing learning, problem solving, and
crowdsourcing. Biology already relies on social tools and applications for
distributed annotations, knowledge bases, and documentation. Internet
access is increasingly happening through mobile devices, that are common in
biomedical laboratories. The adoption of mobile solutions in medicine and
healthcare is a reality, but we cannot say the same for life sciences.
Semantic methodologies and technologies are instead well established in
=93-omic=94 projects: bioinformatics was an early adopter of Semantic Web
technologies.



We are looking for abstracts on all aspects of the focus theme, including
issues, methods, algorithms, and technologies for the design and
development of tools and platforms able to provide Semantic, Social, And
Mobile (SeSaMo) applications supporting bioinformatics and the activities
carried out in a biomedical laboratory.

The following list is not meant to be exclusive of any further topics as
stated above:

Issues and Methods

User engagement; Social learning; Social problem solving; Crowdsourcing;
Gamification; Privacy in social biomedical applications; Patients
communities; Web-enabled social healthcare; other issues and methods for
semantic, social and mobile applications

Platforms

Semantic Knowledge Management platforms; Distributed annotations systems;
Platforms for Crowdsourcing; LIMS; ELN; Social media for biomedical
research; other platforms for semantic, social and mobile applications.

Algorithms and Technologies

Social algorithms; Algorithms optimized for mobile devices; Distributed
algorithms for interacting devices; Ubiquitous computing; Social networks
analysis; Multi Agent Systems; Distributed Computing; Mobile platforms and
wearable computing; other algorithms and technologies for semantic, social
and mobile applications.

Applications for Bioinformatics

Semantic-based Bioinformatics applications; Social Bioinformatics
applications; Mobile Bioinformatics applications; Combinations of the above=
.

Tools

Semantic Wiki Systems; Biomedical Ontologies; Ontologies to support social
and mobile applications; Application Programming Interfaces (API); Software
Development Kits (SDK); Middleware; Programming Languages; other tools for
semantic, social and mobile applications.

Applications for Biomedical laboratories

Semantic-based applications for biomedical laboratories; Social
applications for biomedical laboratories; Mobile applications for
biomedical laboratories; Combinations of the above.



Keynote Talks

- SCIMOBS; the million minds approach revisited in mobile context

Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, and Netherlands
Bioinformatics Center, The Netherlands

-Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed
Participation

Antony Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry, USA

-Semantic, Social, and Mobile technologies for the automation of research
in biomedicine

Ross D. King, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom



Tutorials

-Semantic Web for Life Sciences: vision, aims, tools, platforms

Andrea Splendiani, IntelliLeaf, United Kingdom, and Digital Enterprise
Research Institute, Ireland

-Open_PHACTS and NanoPublications

Speaker to be confirmed

-Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap

Dominique Hazael-Massieux, W3C/ERCIM, Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France

-Mobile applications for life sciences: perspectives, limitations, and real
examples

Alex Clark, Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc



Conference Venue

The workshop will be held in the Congress Center =93Palazzo ex casino=94 in
Lido of Venice (Italy).



Workshop Chairs

-Nicola Cannata, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

-Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, and Netherlands
Bioinformatics Center, The Netherlands

-Paolo Romano, IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, Genoa, Italy

-Andrea Splendiani, intelliLeaf, United Kingdom, and DERI, Ireland



Scientific Committee

Giuliano Armano, Italy

Alex Bateman, UK

Olivier Bodenreider, USA

Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy

Albert Burger, UK

Michael Cariaso, USA

Christine Chichester, Switzerland

Ying Ding, USA

Angelo Facchiano, Italy

Alfredo Ferro, Italy

Rosalba Giugno, Italy

Dominique Haza=EBl-Massieux, France

Ross D. King, UK

Alberto Labarga, Spain

Roberto Marangoni, Italy

Marco Masseroli, Italy

Bartelan Mesk=F3, Hungary

Luciano Milanesi, Italy

Antony Williams, UK

Francis Ouellette, Canada

Alfredo Pulvirenti, Italy

Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Switzerland

Larisa Soldatova, UK

Luca Toldo, Germany

Wyeth W. Wasserman, Canada



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