Dear all,

it's a pleasure to announce you that the First Call for Abstracts for next NETTAB workshop has just been launched.

You will find the complete text at http://www.nettab.org/2013/docs/FirstCall.pdf .
Here below, please also find a summary.

I'm looking forward to see you all in Venice in October... and sorry for duplications!

Best regards. Paolo Romano

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NETTAB 2013 on "Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories"
October 16-18, 2013, Lido of Venice, Italy

 http://www.nettab.org/2013/


Focus
The NETTAB 2013 workshop will explore mobile, social, and semantic solutions for bioinformatics and laboratory informatics.
A savvy combination of these technologies could greatly enhance the research outcome of life scientists and markedly simplify workflows in biomedical laboratories.


Keynote talks (confirmed only)
+ Semantic, Social, and Mobile technologies for the automation of research in biomedicine
Ross D. King, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
+ Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation
Antony Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry


Deadlines
+ July 5, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications
+ July 31, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Posters
+ September 13, 2013: Early registration deadline


Topics
All aspects of the focus theme, including issues, methods, algorithms, and technologies
for the design and development of tools and platforms able to provide Semantic, Social,
And Mobile (SeSaMo) applications supporting bioinformatics and the activities carried out
in a biomedical laboratory.
The following list is not meant to be exclusive of any further topics as stated above.

Issues and Methods
User engagement, Social learning, Social problem solving, Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Privacy in social biomedical applications, Patients communities, Web-enabled social healthcare, Other Issues and Methods for SeSaMo applications

Algorithms and Technologies
Social algorithms, Algorithms optimized for mobile devices, Distributed algorithms for interacting devices, Ubiquitous computing, Social networks analysis, Multi Agent Systems, Distributed Computing, Mobile platforms and wearable computing, Other Algorithms and Technologies for SeSaMo applications

Tools
Semantic Wiki Systems, Biomedical Ontologies, Ontologies to support social and mobile applications, Application Programming Interfaces (API), Software Development Kits (SDK), Middleware, Programming Languages, Other Tools for SeSaMo applications

Platforms
Semantic Knowledge Management platforms, Distributed annotations systems, Platforms for Crowdsourcing, Platforms for laboratory management, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), Social media for biomedical research, Other SeSaMo platforms

Applications for Bioinformatics
Semantic-based Bioinformatics applications, Social Bioinformatics applications, Mobile Bioinformatics applications, Combinations of the above

Applications for Biomedical laboratories
Semantic-based applications for biomedical laboratories, Social applications for biomedical laboratories, Mobile applications for biomedical laboratories, Combinations of the above


Instructions
The following possible contributions are sought: oral communications, industrial-technological communications, posters.
Accepted abstracts will be included in the Proceedings of the workshop, that will be published in a Supplement of EMBnet.journal (ISSN: 2226-6089).
Full papers from abstracts presented at NETTAB 2013 will be published in a peer-review, indexed, international journal that will soon be announced.

Extended structured abstracts must be submitted at http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/ .
Authors must first register at http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/NETTAB2013/user/account .
The abstract must be prepared by using the template http://www.nettab.org/2013/docs/Nettab_abstractTemplate.doc .
Full instructions for the preparation of the abstract are available at http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/NETTAB2013/about/submissions#authorGuidelines .

The length of abstracts for oral communications and industrial-technological communications should be between 3 and 4 pages, including no more than TWO tables / figures. The length of abstracts for posters should be between 2 and 3 pages, including no more than ONE table or figure.


Chairs
+ Nicola Cannata, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
+ Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center, The Netherlands
+ Paolo Romano, IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, Genoa, Italy
+ Andrea Splendiani, intelliLeaf, United Kingdom, and DERI, Ireland


Conference Venue
The workshop will be located in one of the Congress venues of Venice Convention in Lido of Venice.
See Venice Convention Congress venues at http://www.veniceconvention.it/en/polo.php .


For any information, please refer to the web site at http://www.nettab.org/2013/
or contact the organization by email at nettab2013ocgooglegroups.com .

Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it)
Bioinformatics, Biopolimers and Proteomics,
IRCCS AOU San Martino IST
Genova, Italy
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