CFP NETTAB 2009: deadline approaching

[Stefania Parodi]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you about next NETTAB 2009
workshop, whose focus topic could be of your interest.

The focus theme, indeed, is "Technologies, Tools
and Applications for Collaborative and Social
Bioinformatics Research and Development".
The workshop will be held in Catania, Sicily, on June 10-13, 2009.
I attach here below the Call for papers.

Please spread this announcement to your network.
Best regards. Stefania Parodi
on behalf of NETTAB 2009 Organizing Committee

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Last Call for Papers

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: April 28, 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
# 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

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 .

- April 28, 2009: Oral communication submission
   Acceptation communication: May 12, 2009
- 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


Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@...)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy
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NETTAB '09 - Ninth International Workshop on
Network Tools and Applications in Biology
10-13 June 2009, Catania, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2009/ (soon available)

Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@...)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)



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