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Dear all,
everyone is kindly invited to submit their contribution on the topics below.
Kind Regards,
Marco
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Special issue on Software, Open Standards, and Computational Approaches
for Collaboration in Life Sciences
Call for Papers
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/si/753187/cfp
Internet and the World Wide Web have made possible unimaginable levels
of information sharing and collaboration in science, as well as in other
human activities. In life science, software-based collaboration occurs
at different scale levels, from small collocated scientific groups to
large international communities. It also happens in various ways, from
tight-interaction in ontology design to crowd-sourced data annotation
and analysis. The idea of the web of data has been particularly
successful in the biomedical field, given its potential to ease
integration and exploration of large, complex, and heterogeneous data
sets. Advanced knowledge representation and data exchange standards have
been widely used for such purpose. These same approaches are applied in
developing collaboration models and software to support such models.
In this special issue we want to explore the intersection between the
above themes and gather an outlook of current efforts and solutions to
promote collaboration in life sciences through software tools, open data
standards, advanced representation of the semantics of data, and
collaboration models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Ontology-driven collaboration software for life science
Collaboratories in the biomedical field
Crowdsourcing experiences and projects, semantics-based models, and
applications for crowdsourcing in life science
Collaborative biomedical data generation, exchange, and integration
Distributed biomedical data annotation and analysis
Ontologies and models to support collaboration in life science
Practices and tools in bio-ontology development and applications
Collaborative annotation and review of biomedical literature,
nanopublications
Collaboration in biomedical education and training, advanced
semantic models for life science education applications
Software tools to fund raise biomedical research projects
Manuscript Due Friday, 14 February 2014
First Round of Reviews Friday, 9 May 2014
Publication Date Friday, 4 July 2014
Lead Guest Editor
Marco Brandizi, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Guest Editors
Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MS, USA
Paolo Romano, IRCCS University Hospital San Martino IST, Genoa, Italy
Marco Roos, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Katy Wolstencroft, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
(LIACS), Leiden, Netherlands
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