Dear all,

we are quickly approaching the NETTAB 2013 Workshop on Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories, October 16-18, 2013, Lido of Venice, Italy.

Start preparing your participation: - check the provisional scientific programme on-line - submit your poster for the Call for Late posters - register to participate in the workshop - define your travel plan and book your hotel.

Here are the latest news.

The Call for Late posters is now open. The provisional Scientific Programme is now available. Registration is now open. Register at the early registration cost within September 13, 2013.

Stay in touch with NETTAB Workshops: - by LinkedIn: NETTAB Workshops group - by Twitter: @NETTABWorkshops and #NETTAB2013 - by Google groups: subscribe to nettab-announce@googlegroups.com

I'm looking forward to see you in Venice very soon.

Paolo Romano

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NETTAB 2013 Workshop on Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories, October 16-18, 2013, Lido of Venice, Italy. http://www.nettab.org/2013/

KEYNOTE TALKS

*Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation* Antony Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry

*Semantic, Social, and Mobile technologies for the automation of research in biomedicine* Ross D. King, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

*SCIMOBS; the million minds approach revisited in mobile context* Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center

TUTORIALS

*Semantic Web for Life Sciences: vision, aims, tools, platforms * Andrea Splendiani, IntelLeaf, United Kingdom, and Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

*Open_PHACTS and NanoPublications * Christine Chichester, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CALIPHO group, Geneva, Switzerland

*Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap* Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C/ERCIM, Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France

*Mobile applications for life sciences: perspectives, limitations, and real examples* Alex Clark, Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc

DEADLINES

NEW! September 16, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for SPECIAL Oral communications (for this deadline, authors must get in touch ASAP with Paolo Romano by email)

NEW! September 16, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Late Posters Submit a two to three pages abstract, according to Instructions, at http://conference.embnet.org/index.php/NETTAB/NETTAB2013

You will find the complete text of the Call for Abstracts at http://www.nettab.org/2013/call.php

REGISTRATION

Early registration deadline is on September 13, 2013. Be prepared to register on time and take profit from reduced costs.

I'm looking forward to see you all in Venice in October.

Best regards.

Paolo Romano on behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees