- From: M. Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:52:56 +0200
- To: HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
[With apologies for cross-posting]
Submissions are now open for the 3rd Int. Semantic Web Applications
and Tools for Life Sciences
Berlin, 10th December 2010
http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/
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News:
* Special issue in BMC Bioinformatics
* Nature proceedings / CEUR Proceedings
* 2 keynotes
* Tutorial day on Semantic Web Services, Linked Data, D2RQ,
* Semantic Web Meetup in Semantic Life Sciences and Chemistry
* Panel discussion
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Overview
SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss
benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems
and semantic technologies in life sciences, biomedical informatics and
computational biology.
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Rationale
The web is a key medium for information publishing, and web based
information systems play a key role in biomedical information exchange
and integration. At the same time, the variety and complexity of
biomedical information call for the adoption of semantic-based
solutions. 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 environments. Altogether the adoption of the web-based
semantic-enabled technologies in the Life Sciences has potential
impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medicine.
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.
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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, Linked Data,
)
o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools
o Alternative approaches to integrate semantic representations and web
based solutions
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 Wikis
o Semantic collaborative research environments
o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios
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Type of contributions
The following possible contributions are sought:
Research papers
Position papers
Posters
Software demos
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Proceedings
All accepted communications will be published in the proceedings,
either Nature Proceedings or via CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/)
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Special issue
Authors of accepted contributions to the 2010 edition of SWAT4LS will
be invited to submit extended and revised contributions for a special
issue in BMC Bioinformatics.
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Deadlines
Submission openinig: 13 September 2010
Papers submission deadline: 12 October 2010
Posters and demo submission deadline: 1 November 2010
Communication of acceptance: 8 November 2010
Camera ready: 21 November 2010
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Instructions
All papers and posters must be in English, formatted according to LNCS
format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted
in pdf format.
Submissions for papers should report original research, and should
be between 8 and 15 pages.
Submissions for position papers should report qualified opinions,
recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 3 and 6 pages.
Submissions for posters should be between 2 and 4 pages.
Submissions for software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages.
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Submission
All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. A
link will be provided when registrations open.
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully
peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program
Committee.
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Full Program
(more detailed information available at http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/progr.php)
Wednesday 8th December 2010
Location: Free University of Berlin
- Tutorial: Semantic Web meets Cloud Computing
Presenter: Jonas Almedia (Univ. Texas MDAnderson Cancer
Center, Huston, USA)
- Free Hackathon
Thursday 9th December 2010
Location: Free University of Berlin or Harnak Hause (to be confirmed)
- Tutorial: Interoperable Semantic Web services
- Presenters: Jon Ison (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, U.K.), Matus
Kalas (Bergen Center for Computational Science, Bergen, Norway)
- Tutorial: Producing Linked Data
Presenters: TBD
- Tutorial: D2RQ
Presenters: Radoslaw Oldakowski (Free University of Berlin)
- 7th Berlin Semantic Web Meetup - Semantic Health Care and
Life Sciences
Presentations from Meetup participants
- SWAT4LS / Meetup Dinner + poster session
Friday 10th December 2010
Location: Harnak Hause
The workshop will run from 9.00 to 19.00, followed by the optional
social dinner.
It will feature:
- Keynotes:
- Christopher Baker: A renaissance for the point
mutation: from legacy data to semantic web service
- Jonas Almeida: Development of Integrative
Bioinformatics Applications using Cloud Computing resources and
Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS).
- Accepted papers presentations
- Flash presentations
- Poster session
- Demo session
- Panel discussion (Confirmed participants: Chris Baker,
Jonas Almeida, Chirs Bizer)
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Workshop Chairs
Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research
Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute,
Genova, Italy
M. Scott Marshall, Adaptive Information Disclosure Group, University
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept.,
Rothamsted Research, UK
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Scientific Program committee (more to be confirmed):
Erick Antezana, Bayer CropScience, Ghent, Belgium
Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New
University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine,
Bethesda, MD, United States of America
Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life
Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale
University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America
Tim Clark, Massachuttes General Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, Boston, United States of America
Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France
Asuman Dogac, Department of Computer Eng., Middle East
Technical University, Ankara ,Turkey
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Toshiaki Katayama, Human Genome Center (HGC), University
of Tokyo, Japan
C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale
University School of Medicine, United States of America
Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information
Science, Linkφping University, Linkφping, Sweden
Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Alistair Miles, Centre for Genomics and Global Health,
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, Uk
Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology,
University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, United
States of America
Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Konrad
Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg,
Austria
Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research,
Stanford, United States of America
Michael Schroeder, 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
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Registrations
The deadline for early bird registration is October 8th.
http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/rform.php
As spaces are limited, we encourage interested participants to
register in advance.
--
M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair
Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
Received on Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:58:45 UTC