[BiO BB] CfP: NETTAB 2006 GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics

[Paolo Romano]

                   Workshop NETTAB 2006 on
        Distributed Applications, Web Services, Tools
         and GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics 

                      July 10-13, 2006
          Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy

                http://www.nettab.org/2006/

CALL FOR PAPERS

New deadline for oral communications: May 12, 2006
 
Due to a number of requests, we decided to postpone the deadline
for the submission of oral presentations.

The new deadline is now defined as May 12, 2006.
This change should not influence the other deadlines.

Oral presentations due: May 12, 2006 
Notification to authors: May 22, 2006
Posters and position papers due: May 31, 2006 
Early registration: May 31, 2006 

We are now planning for a special issue of IEEE Transactions
on Nanobiosciences for the best papers of our workshop.
A special call will soon be delivered.
The expected deadline is around next June 15, 2006.

TOPICS

A non exhaustive list of topics relevant to the workshop includes:

Technologies and technological platforms: 
- Standards and protocols for Web Services 
- Choreography and Orchestration of Web Services 
- Comparison of available technologies, limitations, pros and cons 
- Knowledge representation and knowledge modeling tools for biological data 
- Ontologies, databases and applications of semantics in bioinformatics 
- Semantic Web technologies 

New tools for bioinformatics: 
- Web Services and related tools 
- Workflow management systems and enactment portals 
- Technologies for GRID infrastructures 
- Semantic Web tools 

Applications in bioinformatics 
- Case studies, scenarios and use cases 
- Remote applications for life sciences analysis 
- Workflows for actual data analysis in life sciences 
- Data intensive applications on GRID solutions 
- Remote biological data mining 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

OPENING LECTURE

Bioinformatics GRID based projects overview
Luciano Milanesi,
Biomedical Technologies Institute (ITB),
National Research Council (CNR),
Milan, Italy

INVITED LECTURES

ICT technologies involved with GRID infrastructure (title to be confirmed)
Roberto Barbera,
University of Catania and
National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN),
Catania, Italy

Setting up a Bioinformatics service Center in a distributed environment
Patricia Rodriguez-Tome',
Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4),
Cagliari, Italy

The EELA project: Biomedical Applications (title to be confirmed)
Rafael Mayo Garcia
Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT)
Madrid, Spain

HealthGrid (title to be confirmed)
Vincent Breton,
CNRS, France

TUTORIALS

Agents in bioGRID computing
Emanuela Merelli,
University of Camerino, Camerino (MC), Italy

Agent-based Infrastructures and Tools for Bioinformatics
Giuliano Armano and Eloisa Vargiu,
DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

New bioinformatics applications based on Web Services technologies
and GRID computing
Tiziana Castrignano',
CASPUR, Rome, Italy

bioMOBY concept, architecture, central reporitory and related tools
Martin Senger,
IRRI, Manila, Philippines

BioinfoGRID: theory and practice (title to be confirmed)
Roberto Barbera, University of Catania and INFN, Catania, Italy
and Giorgio Pietro Maggi, INFN, Bari , Italy

Tutorials will be held at Polaris Science and Technology Park of Sardinia,
very close to the location of the workshop. A shuttle bus will be
available to reach Polaris from Is Morus Relais.
A presentation of groups working in Polaris and of their scientific
activity will also be given on Thursday 13 at the same location.

Best regards.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Paolo Romano
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Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it)
Bioinformatics and Structural Proteomics
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/