Apologies for multiple postings
First CFP: SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life
Sciences
***Location and date
Amsterdam, Science Park, November 20th 2009
(http://swat4ls.org/2009/)
***Rationale
The adoption of semantic-enabled applications and collaborative
social environments is ever more common in the Life Sciences. The
Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are
key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed
information resources and collaborative social environemnts.
Altogether the adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences
has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological
research and medecine. This workshop will provide a venue to
present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these
technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational
biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools
development and applications. It will bring together researchers,
both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology,
Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current
limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in
Life Sciences.
***Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web
o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL,
SKOS,... )
o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools
o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases
* Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems
for life sciences
o Semantic biomedical Web Services
o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems
* Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for
Bioinformatics
o Semantics aware application tools
o Semantic collaborative research environments
o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios
***Scientific Committee (committed so far:)
* Christopher J. O. Baker, Department of Computer Science and
Applied Statistics, University of Brunswick, Canada
* Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New University of
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
* Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Transinsight GmbH, Dresden, Germany
* Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda,
MD, United States of America
* Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, School of Computer Science, University
of Machester, manchester, United Kingdom
* Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences,
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
* Kei Cheung, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale, New
Haven, United States of America
* Tim Clark, Center for Innovative Computing, Harvard
University, USA
* Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France
* Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
* Chen Huajun, Zhejiang University, China
* Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
* C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
* Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
* Jacob Tilman Koehler, Department of Molecular Biotechnology,
Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromsö, Tromsö, Norway
* Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University
School of Medicine, USA
* Martin Kuiper, Department of Pathology, Systems Biology
group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, Norway
* Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information
Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
* Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, University of
Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
* Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, USA
* Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology,
University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
* Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, USA
* Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Semantic Web
Company, Wien, Austria
* Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research,
Stanford, USA
* Michael Schröder, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden,
Germany
* Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of
Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
* Tetsuro Toyoda, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
* Mark D. Wilkinson, iCAPTURE Center, St. Paul Hospital,
Vancouver, Canada
***Type of contributions
The following possible contributions are sought:
* Oral communications (regular papers)
* Posters
* Software demos
All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with
CEUR-WS.
***Deadlines
* Submission openinig: 1 September 2009
* Submission of oral communications: 28 September 2009
* Submission for posters and demos: 15 October 2009
* Communication of acceptance: 23 October 2009
* Camera ready: 6 November 2009
***Instructions
All papers and posters must be in English and must be submitted
through the EasyChair review system at http://www.easychair.org/
conferences/?conf=swat4ls-09. Please upload all submissions as PDF
files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-
reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee.
* Submissions for Oral communications should be between 10 and
15 pages.
* Posters submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages.
* Software demo proposals should also be between 4 and 8 pages.
***Proceedings
All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with
the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-
ws.org/).
We are in the process of negotiating the possibility to have a
special issue of a major bioinformatics journal related to the 2009
edition of swat4ls.
To this end, a special Call will be launched shortly after the
workshop, for extended and revised versions of contributions
submitted to the workshop and accepted either as oral communication
or poster.
***Organization
* M. Scott Marshall, Adaptive Information Disclosure Group,
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands/li>
* Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research
Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
* Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet
Berlin, Germany
* Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research
Institute, Genova, Italy
* Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept.,
Rothamsted Research, UK
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For any further information or clarification, please visit the
website at http://www.swat4ls.org/2009 or contact the organization
by email at info @ swat4ls.org