From allenday at ucla.edu Mon Oct 27 12:31:04 2003 From: allenday at ucla.edu (Allen Day) Date: Mon Oct 27 12:28:03 2003 Subject: [Bioperl-microarray] NETTAB 2003 Workshop, Bologna, Italy Message-ID: NETTAB 2003 Call for Papers Bioinformatics for the management, analysis and interpretation of microarray data November 27-28, 2003, Bologna, Italy http://www.nettab.org/2003/ NETTAB workshops are a series of workshops focused on the most promising and innovative ICT tools and to their usefulness in Bioinformatics. Participation is at an internation level, mainly European, and speakers are among the most known researchers in the field. NETTAB workshops: - Focus on a well defined, emerging, promising ICT technology (not on a specific biological research topic) - Introduce the basic knowledge related to the technology under analysis, in a non trivial way - Outline the promising features of the technology in bioinformatics - Show some valuable examples in bioinformatics or different domains - Allow for as much discussion as possible - Demonstrate "how it works" practically, through demos or tutorials Previous editions were devoted to: "CORBA and XML: towards a bioinformatics integrated network environment" (Genova, 17-19 May 2001) and "Agents in Bioinformatics" (Bologna, 12-14 July 2002). You are welcome to visit the workshops' web site at http://www.nettab.org/ . The NETTAB 2003 workshop will be focused on the "Bioinformatics for the management, analysis and interpretation of microarray data". See http://www.nettab.org/2003/ . This edition will be organized also with the help of the Hormone Responsive Breast Cancer (HRBC) Genomics Network (http://www.hrbc-genomics.net/) - about 100 researchers from about 15 different institutions, most of them will be at the NETTAB worskhop. The network has been funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (FIRB project) for a three-years research project on the breast cancer. The network makes large use of microarray technology, and it is going to select common platforms (both experimentals and bioinformatics) to generate comparable results in different labs. In the last years, biomedical research has evolved through the development of new technologies, as the microarray technology, able to assay gene expression for thousands of genes at a time. This "high-throughput" technology gives the researchers the opportunity to investigate with a new and powerful approach the underlying genetic causes of many human diseases, as well as physiological aspects of growth and development. After few years, during which the experimental platforms and protocols have been assessed, microarrays applications are now quickly growing up. In the meantime, bioinformatics is solicited to create the tools of analysis and interpretation to understand the biological phenomena under investigation. Analysis of massive gene expression data requires statistical methods, data mining approaches, and data base storage and searches tools, but most relevant is the standardization of experimental protocols, data format, information describing experimentals, and other experimental and analytical aspects, to be able to exploit data sets from different laboratories in large scale analysis of data. Workshop aims are: - to collect the latest ideas, achievements and proposals in the application of bioinformatics to the microarray data analysis and interpretation, - to strengthen the relationships within bioinformatics community, also in view of a wider sinergical effort towards common scientific aims, - to improve cooperation between bioinformatics and biomedical communities. The worshop is organized in sessions, where invited speakers present the state of art of the session's topic, and open discussions. Open discussions will also be based upon submitted issues and topics. Tutorials are also foreseen. A limited number of submissions will be admitted as oral communication A call for position papers, posters and oral communication is now open. Submitted contributions must address at least one of the following issues: standardization of experiments and data, including: - identification of information requirements, - use cases, - data models, - data structures, - data exchange formats, - submission formats, - comparison of platforms, - etc... analysis and management tools, including: - database management systems, - clustering tools, - etc... applications of bioinformatics to microarray experiments, including: - integrative data analysis, - gene expression analysis, - wide genome analysis, - toxicogenomics, - oncogenomics, - any-omics, - etc.... Authors are encouraged to submit: Position papers: submit a short abstract (max 1 A4 pages in length, size 12pt, in pdf or MS Word format) specifying research interests and issues to be discussed during the workshop. Authors submitting position papers do not engage themselves to present a poster. Instead, they will be invited to introduce the issues during the discussions. Abstracts will be printed in the abstracts book, but won't be inserted in the conference proceedings. Posters: submit an extended abstract (max 3 A4 pages, size 12pt, in pdf or MS Word format). Abstracts will be reviewed and acceptation will be communicated to authors. Posters will be inserted in the abstract book and, only if actually presented at the workshop, in the conference proceedings. Oral Communications: submit an extended abstract (max 5 A4 pages, size 12pt, in pdf or MS Word format) as for posters. Only a very limited number of abstracts will be selected as oral communications. All abstracts submitted as oral communication but not selected will automatically be considered as posters. Abstracts must be sent by email to: papers2003@nettab.org Deadlines: Abstracts due: November 10, 2003. Notification to authors: November 17, 2003. Early registration: November 17, 2003 On behalf of Organizing and Scientific Committees Paolo Romano --- Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) National Cancer Research Institute Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295 -- Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) National Cancer Research Institute Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295