[Myexperiment-discuss] SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences 2009 Amsterdam

[Duncan Hull]

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


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