CFP: NETTAB 2013 on "Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories"

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LIMS/Laboratory InformaticsNETTAB 2013 on "Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories"

October 16-18, 2013, Lido of Venice, Italy

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.

Confirmed Keynotes
+ 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
+ Others to be announced

Confirmed Tutorials
+Open_PHACTS and NanoPublications
Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center, The Netherlands (exact title and speaker to be confirmed)
+Others to be announced


Deadlines
+ July 5, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications
+ July 31, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Posters

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.
See the full topics list on-line.

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/ .
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.

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, contact the organization by email at nettab2013ocgooglegroups.com