[BiO BB] NETTAB 2011: Announcement and Call for papers

[Paolo Romano]

Dear all,

I'm extremely glad to announce next NETTAB 
workshop and send you the Call for submissions.
A Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics will be 
published with extended and revised versions of 
best contributions to the workshop.

I apologize for possible duplications.

Best regards. Paolo Romano

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NETTAB 2011 on
"Clinical Bioinformatics"
October 12-14, 2011
Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2011/


NETTAB 2011 is the eleventh in a series of 
international workshops on Network Tools and Applications in Biology.
These workshops are aimed at presenting and 
discussing emerging ICT technologies whose 
adoption in support of biology could be of particular interest.

This year, NETTAB is focused on Clinical 
Bioinformatics and it is aimed at presenting the 
methods, tools and infrastructures that are nowadays available.
It will also show some of the most interesting applications in this field.

Invited Speakers
Yves A. Lussier, Institute for Translational 
Medicine, University of Chicago, USA
Thomas Illig, Institute of Epidemiology, 
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
Jan-Eric Litton, Department of Medical 
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Isacc S. Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Tutorials given by:
Carlo Combi, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France
Marco Masseroli (to be confirmed), Dipartimento 
di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Amnon Shabo, IBM REserach Lab, Haifa, Israel

Call for Papers
Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics:
- Methods and Technologies:
   Data warehouse - Natural Language Processing - 
Data Mining - Ontologies, Interoperability, 
Standardisation - Search Computing - Decision Support
- Tools:
   ICT architectures to support - Clinical 
research – BioBanks – Software for next 
generation sequencing - Data management and storage
- Applications:
   Risk assessment – Diagnosis – Therapy planning- Drug Design

Type of contributions: Oral communications – Posters - Software demoes
Contributions length:
- oral communications: between 3 and 5 pages
- posters and demoes: no more than 3 pages

Deadlines:
· July 15, 2011: Oral communications submission
· September 5, 2011: Posters and demoes submission

Submit your contribution through the EasyChair 
system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2011

All contributions submitted to NETTAB 2011 will 
be invited to a restricted Call for full research 
papers to be published in a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics.

Registration
You can register to the NETTAB 2011 workshop by 
using the form at http://www.nettab.org/2011/rform.html
Early registration ends within September 30, 2011.

Visit the website http://www.nettab.org/2011/

Contact the organization by sending an email message to nettab at unipv.it .


Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)

http://www.nettab.org/
NETTAB Workshops. Stay tuned!

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