NETTAB2012 International Conference Integrated Bio-Search: Deadline EXTENDED

Nettab 2012 – Integrated Bio Search

Deadline EXTENDED!

Wednesday 14 – Friday 16 November 2012

Como, Italy, EU

http://www.nettab.org/2012/

Dear all,
this is an update on latest news and an announcement of a deadline extension for the submission of Abstracts for Oral Communications for NETTAB 2012 ( http://www.nettab.org/2012/ )

The main deadlines for abstracts submission are the following:

– July 23, 2012 August 7th 2012: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications
– September 20, 2012: Abstract submission deadline for the Industrial-Technological Session
– September 30, 2012: Abstract submission deadline for PostersHere follow the latest news on the workshop.Keynote talks (confirmed)
+ Integration and analysis of multi-type high-throughput data for biomolecular knowledge discovery
Erik Bongam-Rudloff, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Uppsala University, Sweden.
+ Semantics based biomedical knowledge search, integration and discovery
Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center
+ Clinical and genomic data integration in support of biomedical research and clinical practice
Eric Neumann, CTO, PanGenX and CEO, Clinical Semantics TechnologiesTutorials (confirmed)
+ The Taverna Workbench: Integrating and analysing biological and clinical data with computerised workflows
Katy Wolstencroft, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United KingdomBMC Bioinformatics Supplement
BMC agreed to publish a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics on next NETTAB 2012 workshop.
A Call for full papers restricted to works presented at NETTAB 2012, both as oral communication and as poster, will be Launched after the workshop.Industrial-Technological Session
A special session will be devoted to Industrial-technological communications.
This session is meant to include presentations about methodological, scientific and technological issues of industrial products and tools that are already available from companies and research groups, as well as about their actual implementation, application domains, and related results.These communications must not convey any commercial message.
Companies interested in some commercial actions may ask for sponsorship opportunities.A summary of the Call for abstracts is presented below.For detailed information, please refer to the web site at
http://www.nettab.org/2012/
or contact the organization by email at nettab2012@elet.polimi.it .

We’re looking forward to see you all in Como in November.

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NETTAB 2012 on “Integrated Bio-Search”
November 14-16, 2012, Como, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2012/

Nettab 2012 – Integrated Bio Search: Call for papers

Nettab 2012 – Integrated Bio Search

Call for papers

Wednesday 14 – Friday 16 November 2012

Como, Italy, EU

http://www.nettab.org/2012/

The data deluge of the current post-genomic era is providing scientists with potentially very valuable information, but it makes difficult to find and extract from the increasing available high-throughput data those information that are most reliable and most related to the biomedical questions to be answered. Such questions are increasingly complex and they often simultaneously regard many heterogeneous aspects of an organism and of its biomolecular entities. Several of these questions can be addressed only by comprehensively searching different types of data, which generally are distributed in many heterogeneous sources. Usually, scientists manually explore these data using the individual search services and tools available and they then struggle in combining intermediate results in order to find answers to their global questions.
Searching for data upon open and linked data and algorithmic sources has the potential of reshaping the scenario of current bioinformatics applications, going beyond the capabilities of conventional tools, Web services and search engines in solving search problems. Yet, it also presents new technological challenges. Solving data integration problems requires new solutions, including the use of universal URIs, efficient indexing, partial or approximate value matching, rank aggregation, continuous or push-based search, exploratory methods and context-aware paradigms, collaborative and social search and information retrieval approaches.
NETTAB 2012 will be focused on “Integrated Bio-Search”, which includes all aspects that relate to technologies, methods, architectures, systems and applications for searching, retrieving, integrating and analyzing data, information, knowledge, infrastructures, services and tools that are required to answer complex bio-medical-molecular questions.

Topics
We are looking for abstracts on all aspects of data integration search in biomedicine. These include methods, algorithms, tools, platforms and applications for syntactic and semantic management, integration, query, retrieval, and mining of biological and clinical data information and knowledge. The following list is not meant to be exclusive of any further topics as stated above

Deadlines
May, 2012: First Announcement and Call for Papers
July 23, 2012: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications
September 30, 2012: Abstract submission deadline for Posters
October 16, 2012: Early registration deadline

Type of contributions
The following possible contributions are sought:
Oral communications
Posters
Software demos

All accepted contributions will be published in the Proceedings of the workshop.

For further information, visit http://www.nettab.org/2012/

Wikimania2011, 4-7 agosto 2011, ad Haifa (Israele)

Segnalo a tutti un’altra importante conferenza: questa volta si parla di Wikipedia, la famosa encliclopedia online gratuita, e dei suoi progetti associati.

Wikimania 2011 • Haifa, Israel, August 4–7, 2011

Per maggiori informazioni visitate:

http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/

Partecipate numerosi! 🙂

Nettab2011 – Network Tools and Applications in Biology, 12-14 ottobre 2011, Pavia – Nettab 2011

Ritorna come ogni anno l’importantissima conferenza internazionale Nettab –Network Tools and Applications in Biology, organizzata dal professor Paolo Romano dell’Ist di Genova. Quest’anno si terra’ a Pavia in Lombardia, il 12, 13, 14 ottobre 2011.

Ecco l’annuncio di sottomissione dei contributi.

NETTAB 2011 on
“Clinical Bioinformatics”
October 12-14, 2011
Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2011/

NETTAB 2011 is the eleventh in a series of international workshops on Network Tools and Applications in Biology.
These workshops are aimed at presenting and discussing emerging ICT technologies whose adoption in support of biology could be of particular interest.

This year, NETTAB is focused on Clinical Bioinformatics and it is aimed at presenting the methods, tools and infrastructures that are nowadays available.
It will also show some of the most interesting applications in this field.

Invited Speakers
Yves A. Lussier, Institute for Translational Medicine, University of Chicago, USA
Thomas Illig, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
Jan-Eric Litton, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Isacc S. Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Tutorials given by:
Carlo Combi, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI – CNRS, Orsay, France
Marco Masseroli (to be confirmed), Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Amnon Shabo, IBM REserach Lab, Haifa, Israel

Call for Papers
Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics:
– Methods and Technologies:
Data warehouse – Natural Language Processing – Data Mining – Ontologies, Interoperability, Standardisation – Search Computing – Decision Support
– Tools:
ICT architectures to support – Clinical research – BioBanks – Software for next generation sequencing – Data management and storage
– Applications:
Risk assessment – Diagnosis – Therapy planning- Drug Design

Type of contributions: Oral communications – Posters – Software demoes
Contributions length:
– oral communications: between 3 and 5 pages
– posters and demoes: no more than 3 pages

Deadlines:
· July 15, 2011: Oral communications submission
· September 5, 2011: Posters and demoes submission

Submit your contribution through the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2011

All contributions submitted to NETTAB 2011 will be invited to a restricted Call for full research papers to be published in a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics.

Registration
You can register to the NETTAB 2011 workshop by using the form at http://www.nettab.org/2011/rform.html
Early registration ends within September 30, 2011.

Visit the website http://www.nettab.org/2011/

Contact the organization by sending an email message to nettab(AT)unipv.it

Bits2011 – Bits 2011: Bioinformatics Italian Society annual meeting a Pisa, 20-22 giugno

Nella sezione conferenze,  segnaliamo oggi Bits 2011, la conferenza annuale della Societa’ Italiana di Bioinformatica, che si terra’ a Pisa (Toscana, Italia, EU), dal 20 al 22 giugno 2011.

Bits 2011 Bits2011 Call for papers

BITS2011 – Pisa – June 20-22, 2011,
Area della Ricerca del CNR

First announcement

The annual meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society will be held in Pisa, June 20-22, 2011.

Topics

Submitted contributions should address novel bioinformatics methods, algorithms, databases, tools and applications for research and development in one or more of the following domains:

• Genomics
• Molecular Evolution and Comparative Genomics
• Protein structure and function
• Proteomics
• Transcriptomics
• Metagenomics
• Systems Biology
• Biological Databases and Biobanks
• Algorithms for Bioinformatics
• Biophysics and Synthetic Biology
• Industrial Track

In addition to the usual topics of general pertinence in Bioinformatics, this meeting will cover two new areas:

• Biophysics and Synthetic biology (as Structural biology and Origin of Life themes are in common between these disciplines and Bioinformatics)
• Industrial track: in cooperation with Fondazione Toscana Life-Sciences, with the goal to have a parallel discussion of the possible industrial applications of the scientific subjects discussed during the sessions.

We stimulate industries not only to submit scientific contributions, that are welcome as usual, but to give short talks focused on their needs, goals and direction concerning bioinformatics, with particular emphasis at opening a dialogue with young researchers and Ph. D. students. A round table in the last congress day will collect a global assessment of how the industrial world sees the bioinformatics research.

Journal Special Issue

Selected abstracts will be invited to contribute in extended form to a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics Supplement devoted to BITS 2011.

Tutorials

Tutorial lectures on selected topics in Bioinformatics will be held at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa on June 22nd in the afternoon (more details will be posted on the conference web site).

For more information http://www.bits2011.it

CIBB 2011 – 8th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics – CIBB2011

Segnalo a tutti questa importantissima conferenza su bioinformatica ed intelligenza computazionale che si terra’ a Gargnano sul Lago di Garda, in data 30 giugno, 1° luglio, 2 luglio.

Siete tutti invitati ad inviare all’organizzazione i vostri articoli e le vostre proposte di tutorial agli organizzatori scrivendo a CIBB2011@gmail.com

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Call for papers:
CIBB 2011 – EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICSGargnano del Garda, 30 June – 2 July 2011http://www.neuronelab.dmi.unisa.it/cibb2011
==========================================================The main goal of the CIBB meetings is to provide a forum open to researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology, medical informatics and biostatistics with a particular focus on Neural Networks, Computational Learning, Fuzzy Logic, and Evolutionary Computation, methods and their relationships with Statistical Pattern Recognition, Non-Parametric Inference and Computational Statistics

CIBB 2011 is jointly organized by:

INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bioinformatics
INNS International Neural Network Society  SIG Biopattern
IEEE-CIS-BBTC Task force on Neural Networks

Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2010 include, but are not limited to:

Sequence analysis, promoter analysis and identification of transcription factor binding sites; Gene expression data analysis; Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data; Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis; Methods for the functional classification of genes; Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data; Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures; Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics; Methods for comparative genomics; Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis; Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems; Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics; Bio-molecular databases and data mining; Algorithms for pharmacogenetics; Bio-medical text mining and imaging; Modeling and evaluation methods for diagnosis and prognosis; Software tools for bioinformatics

The scientific program will include, besides some plenary talks, contributed papers that will be presented in plenary oral and poster sessions. Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference proceedings. A
selection of papers presented at CIBB 2011 will be published a in post conference volume printed by an international publisher. Moreover, we are planning to publish the best papers in extended form in a special issue of an
international scientific journal.

Important Dates:

Tutorial  Proposals:          1 April 2011
Paper submission deadline:    1 April 2011
Notification of acceptance:   1 May   2011
Final paper due:              15 May   2011
Conference:                   30 June  2011

Tutorial proposals:

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Tutorial proposals including title, one page long abstract, and short cv of
presenters, are due by 30 April 2010  Please, send the proposals to
CIBB2011@gmail.com

Paper submission:

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Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the CIBB web site and should be not longer than 10 pages Papers must be uploaded using the conference website (http:/www.neuronelab.dmi.unisa.it/cibb2011)

General Chairs

Elia Biganzoli (Italy)
Andrea Tettamanzi (Italy)
Alfredo Vellido (Spain)

Biostatistic Technical Chair

Valeria Edefonti (Italy)

Bioinformatics Technical Chair

Claudia Angelini (Italy)

Program Chairs

Luciano Milanesi (Italy)
Roberto Tagliaferri (Italy)

Scientific Committee

S Auephanwiriyakul (Thailand)
G Bernot (France)
C Bi (USA)
P Boracchi (Italy)
M Cannataro (Italy)
A Decarli (Italy)
A Ferro (Italy)
E Formenti (France)
C Friedrich (Germany)
S Gaglio (Italy)
A Giordano (Italy&USA)
P Lio’ (UK)
P Lisboa (UK)
G Mauri (Italy)
N Pasquier (France)
D Pelta (Spain)
L Peterson (USA)
G Pollastri (Italy)
M Popescu (USA)
R Rizzo (Italy)
V Roth (Switzerland)
G Russo (USA)
F Stefanini (Italy)
G Valentini (Italy)
Y Zhang (USA)

Local Organizing Committee:

F Ambrogi (Italy)
N Bassani (Italy)
F Napolitano(Italy)

Steering Committee

P Baldi (USA)
A Floares (Romania)
J Garibaldi (UK)
F Masulli (Italy & USA)
R Tagliaferri (Italy)

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CIBB 2011
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS
Gargnano del Garda (Italy), 30 June – 2 July 2011
Conference Website http://www.neuronelab.dmi.unisa.it/cibb2011
email: CIBB2011@gmail.com
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