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NETTAB 2017
Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era October 16-18, 2017, Palermo, Italy Next deadline Submission of abstracts for oral communications: Friday May 26, 2017 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTERS The Workshop "Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era" is organised by NETTAB (International Workshop Series on Network Tools and Applications for Biology), and it will be held at the local research area of italian CNR (National Research Council) in Palermo. Keynote Speakers (confirmed only) - Winston Hide, Professor of Computational Biology, University of Sheffield, UK. - Anita Grigoriadis, Lecturer in Cancer Bioinformatics, King's College, London, UK. - Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy - Chiara Marchiori, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland - Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy - Allegra Via, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy Further Speakers will be announced soon. See http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers for more information. TUTORIALS (in collaboration also with InterOmics and ELIXIR-IIB, confirmed speakers only) - Simona Rombo, University of Salerno, Italy. - Ettore Mosca, Institute of Biomedical Technologies / CNR, Milano, Italy. - Luana Licata, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy. - Alberto Calderone, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy. See http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials for more information. TOPICS The topics of the joint event include, beside the usual NETTAB workshops topics, an additional special event topic. Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era (Special Event Topic), including: Data management Biomedical Big Data Management, Standards for Clinical and Genetic Data, Data Privacy and Security, Omics Data Integration, Biobanks Data analysis Omics Data analysis, Genetic Mutation Analysis, Biomarkers Discovery, NGS Data Analysis, Patient Information Analytics Tools and Services Clinical Genomics Services, Models for Clinic and Genetic Data, Mobile tools and applications, Interoperability of Clinical and omic tools, Communication Technologies for Health-Care. Platforms Integrated Data Warehouses, Integration of Applications and Data Services, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Healthcare Systems NETTAB Workshop topics Bioinformatics methods, standards, tools, applications and experiences deployed over Internet, including: On-line databases, software tools, user interfaces Data integration and data fusion platforms, integrated bio-search Grid and clouds applications and platforms APIs and Web Services, workflow management platforms Semantic tools, biomedical ontologies Semantic Web tools, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints Biological Wikis, social applications for life sciences Tools for collaborative development of software, databases and documents Mobile bioinformatics apps KEY DATES Submission deadlines Abstracts for oral communications: May 26, 2017 Abstracts for posters: TBA Abstracts for software demo: TBA Abstracts for late posters: TBA A post workshop Supplement publication is planned, see below. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Submissions are welcome for oral communications, for posters and for software demos. All abstracts must be submitted as PDF files through EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2017 The maximum length is 4 pages for oral communication abstracts and 2 pages for poster abstracts. Full instructions for authors are available at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/ PROCEEDINGS AND POST-WORKSHOP PUBLICATION Proceedings of the event will consist in a Collection of preprints in PeerJ Preprints. Full papers from works presented at the Workshop will be published in journals with Impact Factor. Discussions are undergoing for Special Issues of BMC Bioinformatics (IF 2.435) and the Journal of Translation Medicine (IF 3.694). VENUE The Workshop and all satellite events will be held at the local research area of the Italian National Research Council, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo. CHAIRS Paolo Romano & Alfonso Urso & Alfonso Valencia (Workshop Chairs) SUPPORTING BODIES BITS – Bioinformatics Italian Society SFBI – Societé Français de Bioinformatique PTBI – Polish Bioinformatics Society ReLiB – Rete Ligure di Bioinformatica ELIXIR-IIB – Italian ELIXIR node CNR / ITB – Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council of Italy CNR / ICAR – Institute for HPC and Networking, National Research Council of Italy Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy |
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