October 16-18, 2017
Palermo, Italy
http://http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTERS:
The Workshop "Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era" is organised by NETTAB (International Workshop Series on Network Tools and Applications for Biology), and it will be held at the local research area of italian CNR (National Research Council) in Palermo.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Winston Hide, Professor of Computational Biology, University of Sheffield, UK.
• Anita Grigoriadis, Lecturer in Cancer Bioinformatics, King's College, London, UK.

Further Keynote speakers will be announced soon.

TOPICS:
The topics of the joint event include, beside the usual NETTAB workshops topics, an additional special event topic.

Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era (Special Event Topic), including:

• Data management: Biomedical Big Data Management, Standards for Clinical and Genetic Data, Data Privacy and Security, Omics Data Integration, Biobanks
• Data analysis: Omics Data analysis, Genetic Mutation Analysis, Biomarkers Discovery, NGS Data Analysis, Patient Information Analytics
• Tools and Services: Clinical Genomics Services, Models for Clinic and Genetic Data, Mobile tools and applications, Interoperability of Clinical and omic tools, Communication Technologies for Health-Care.
• Platforms: Integrated Data Warehouses, Integration of Applications and Data Services, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Healthcare Systems

NETTAB Workshop topics:
Bioinformatics methods, standards, tools, applications and experiences deployed over Internet, including:

• On-line databases, software tools, user interfaces
• Data integration and data fusion platforms, integrated bio-search
• Grid and clouds applications and platforms
• APIs and Web Services, workflow management platforms
• Semantic tools, biomedical ontologies
• Semantic Web tools, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints
• Biological Wikis, social applications for life sciences
• Tools for collaborative development of software, databases and documents
• Mobile bioinformatics apps

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadlines:
Abstracts for oral communications: May 26, 2017
Abstracts for posters: TBA
Abstracts for software demo: TBA
Abstracts for late posters: TBA
A post workshop Supplement publication is planned, see below.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Submissions are welcome for oral communications, for posters and for software demos.
All abstracts must be submitted as PDF files through EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2017
The maximum length is 4 pages for oral communication abstracts and 2 pages for poster abstracts.
Full instructions for authors are available at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/

PUBLICATION IN THE BOOK OF ABSTRACTS:
Accepted abstracts, both for oral communications and for posters, will be considered for the publication in the proceedings of the event, which will consist in a Collection in PeerJ Preprints.
No Copyright form or permission is required for the publication of abstracts, since the proceedings wonÕt be an official publication.

POST-WORKSHOP PUBLICATION:
A post workshop Special Issue in an International Journal with IF will be published with best full papers from presentations, both oral and poster, given at the Workshop. A special Call for papers will be launched shortly after the workshop (planned time presently is early November 2017). A publication fee could be requested for publication of accepted papers because of Open Access policies adopted by many journals.

VENUE:
The Workshop and all satellite events will be held at the local research area of the Italian National Research Council, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo.

CHAIRS:
Paolo Romano & Alfonso Urso & Alfonso Valencia (Workshop Chairs)

CONTACTS:
Email: nettab.workshops[at]gmail.com
Twitter: @NETTABWorkshops
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3209661/profile
Announce mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/nettab-announce