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