Due to many requests for a new deadline for submission of contributions
for oral communications, the related deadline has been postponed to:
Monday May 4, 2009, at 12.00 (noon), EST (GMT+1).
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Last Call for Oral communications
NETTAB 2009 Workshop on
"Technologies, Tools and Applications for
Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development"
with a Special Session on:
"Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis"
June 10-13, 2009
Department of Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2009/
Deadline approaching: May 4, 2009: Oral communication submission
Contributions must be short papers of around
THREE A4 pages or 12.000 characters long.
Submit through the EasyChair system at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2009 .
See web site for details.
Motivation
The most recent developments of collaborative
development tools are impressive. Researchers can
now collaboratively develop software (open source
systems), discuss and compare development
strategies (social networks), write documents
(google docs, wiki systems), build knowledge
bases. So, it may now be the time for presenting
current technologies, tools and applications for
collaborative work and for discussing
perspectives of their utilization in support of Bioinformatics.
For these reasons, NETTAB 2009 will be devoted to
"Technologies, Tools and Applications for
Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development".
The RNA community is also taking advantage of
collaborative research tools such as Wikis and
other virtual environments. The RNA WikiProject
contains now over 600 articles describing
families of noncoding RNAs based on the Rfam
database, and invite the community to update,
edit, and correct those articles. Therefore, the
NETTAB 2009 special session will focus on
collaborative research project, computational
methods and tools for the analysis of RNA
structures and functions, with a special emphasis on ncRNAs.
Invited Speakers (more to be announced)
# Alex Bateman
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
# Doron Betel
MSKCC - Computational Biology Center
New York, USA
# Tim Clark
Director of Informatics, MassGeneral Institute
for Neurodegenerative Disease Neurology Research
Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
# Duncan Hull
School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
# Gabriel Valiente
Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Software, Barcelona, Spain
# Debora Marks
Systems Biology Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
# Gabriel Valiente
Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Software,
Barcelona, Spain
Topics
- Collaborative Web sites (bioinformatics.org, biojava, bioperl,
)
- Communities of Practices (CoPs)
Scientific practices in scientific communities
Automatic detection / gathering / modelling of scientific practices
Implementations of CoPs
- Social networking (myExperiment, Annotea, myScience)
Social Bookmarking
Semantic Document Markup
Relationships mining from literature
- Open Source development
Sharing of data models, libraries, interfaces
- Social software for collaborative documentation development
Wikis, blogs, google docs
Knowledge Wikis
Social-software-mediated collaborative scientific research
Social-software-mediated collaborative tools' development
Knowledge base collaborative development
Ontologies collaborative development
- Education and training tools
E-learning
Virtual environments
Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis
- RNA structure prediction
- Collaborative studies of RNAs
- ncRNAs functional analysis and classification
- miRNAs and networks
- Genome-wide functional studies
- Identification of ncRNAs
- Databases of ncRNAs and miRNA targets
- miRNA targets prediction
- Synthetic miRNA and siRNA design
- Gene expression analysis
- Analysis of viral RNAs
- RNAi therapeutics
- Identification of ncRNAs biomarkers
- RNA-protein interaction prediction
Deadlines
Contributions for both oral communications and
posters must be short papers of around THREE A4
pages or 12.000 characters long.
They must be submitted through the EasyChair
system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2009 .
- May 4, 2009: Oral communication submission
- May 15, 2009: Posters submission
- May 17, 2009: Early registration
- June 10-13, 2009: Tutorials and Workshop
Calls for SPECIAL ISSUES
We plan to launch Calls for Special Issues on the
themes of the workshop in peer-review journals
with associated Impact factor around July for submission in September 2009.
Best regards. Paolo Romano
on behalf of NETTAB 2009 Chairs
NETTAB '09 - Ninth International Workshop on
Network Tools and Applications in Biology
10-13 June 2009, Catania, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2009/
Paolo Romano ([email protected])
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
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