Extended Deadline, Cfp: Special issue on Software, Open Standards, and Computational Approaches for Collaboration in Life Sciences

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for the first submission about the special issue below has 
been extended to March, the 14th. This is a chance to give your 
contribute about software and digital standards used to promote 
collaboration in life science, especially if you are working on 
semantics-based systems.

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 March 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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