[Biojava-l] NETTAB 2010: Submission deadline is approaching: Sep 24, 2010

[Paolo Romano]

I hope this announcement can be of interest for this list.
Forgive me if I'm wrong!

And apologies for any duplication.

Ciao. Paolo

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NETTAB 2010 on "Biological Wikis"
joint with the BBCC 2010 workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational 
Biology in Campania

November 29 - December 1, 2010, Naples, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2010/
http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it./BBCC/BBCC2010/


The deadline for the submission of oral communications is quickly 
approaching, submit you contribution within next
Friday September 24, 2010 through the EasyChair site ( 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2010 ).

The lenght of contributions for oral communications should be between 
3 and 5 pages, including tables and figures.
See more instructions below.


NETTAB 2010 workshop promises to be a great meeting for all 
researchers involved in the exploitation of wikis in biology.

Don't miss this opportunity to discuss your ideas and doubts with 
such scientists as
- Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, 
United Kingdom
- Alexander Pico, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San 
Francisco, USA
- Andrew Su, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics 
Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), San Diego, USA
- Dan Bolser, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, 
Scotland, United Kingdom
- Robert Hoffmann, Computational Biology Center, cBIO, Memorial 
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MSKCC, New York, USA
- Thomas Kelder, Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT), Maastricht 
University, the Netherlands
- Jaime Prilusky, Bioinformatics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 
Rehovot, Israel
- and many other who, we hope, will join the workshop.

Here below, please find a summary of the Call. The complete Call is 
available on-line at http://www.nettab.org/2010/call.html .

Further information is availble at http://www.nettab.org/2010/ .

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CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPICS
The following list is not meant to be exclusive of any further topics 
as stated above.
Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics:
     * Wiki development tools
           o Wikimedia
           o Wikimedia extensions
           o Semantic Wikis
           o Wiki-coupled CMSs
           o Other wikis
     * Arising issues for the biomedical domain:
           o Authoritativeness of contributions and sites
           o Quality assessment
           o Users acknowledgement
           o Stimulatation of quality contributions
           o Authorships management and reward
           o 'Scientific production' value for contributions
           o Management of bioinformatics data types
     * Wikis and collaborative systems for:
           o Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics
           o Proteins analysis and visualization
           o gene and proteins interactions
           o metabolic pathways
           o oncology research
     * Issues to be tackled by wiki and collaborative research for:
           o Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics
           o Proteins analysis and visualization
           o gene and proteins interactions
           o metabolic pathways
           o oncology research

The NETTAB 2010 workshop is a joint event with the BBCC 2010 workshop on
This deadline also applies to the BBCC 2010 workshop.
Submit for BBCC through the same EasyChair site and select 'BBCC 
session' topic.


TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The following possible contributions are sought:
     * Oral communications
     * Posters
     * Software demos
All accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of 
the workshop.


DEADLINES

* September 24, 2010: Oral communications submission
           o Decisions announced: October 24, 2010

* October 29, 2010: Early registration ends

* November 29 - December 1, 2010: Workshop and Tutorials


INSTRUCTIONS
Kindly follow the instructions carefully when preparing your 
contribution and submit your contribution through the EasyChair 
system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2010.

All contributions should follow the same format, as specified here:
font type: Times New Roman, font size: 12 pti, page size: A4, left 
and right margins: 2.0 cm, upper margin: 2.5 cm, lower margin: 2.0 cm.

The lenght of contributions for oral communications should be between 
3 and 5 pages, including tables and figures.
They should include: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and 
Discussion, References.
All contributions for oral communications will be evaluated by at 
least three referees.

For any further information or clarification, please contact the 
organization by email at info at nettab.org.


ORGANIZATION (see http://www.nettab.org/2010/organization.html for 
the Scientific Committee and more information)

Co-chairs
     * Angelo Facchiano, CNR-ISA, Avellino, Italy
     * Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy

We look forward to meeting you in Naples!

Paolo Romano and Angelo Facchiano
   on behalf of the Scientific Committee


Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy
Tel: +39-010-5737-288  Fax: +39-010-5737-295  Skype: p.romano
Web: http://www.nettab.org/promano/