NETTAB 2009: Workshop on "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development"
| What | Meeting |
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2009-06-10 08:00
to 2009-06-13 17:00 |
| Where | Department of Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy |
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NETTAB 2009 Workshop on "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development" with a Special Session on: "Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis" June 10-13, 2009 Department of Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy http://www.nettab.org/
Topics
- Collaborative Web sites (bioinformatics.org, biojava, bioperl, …)
- Communities of Practices (CoPs)
Scientific practices in scientific communities
Automatic detection / gathering / modelling of scientific practices
Implementations of CoPs - Social networking (myExperiment, Annotea, myScience)
Social Bookmarking
Semantic Document Markup
Relationships mining from literature - Open Source development
Sharing of data models, libraries, interfaces - Social software for collaborative documentation development
Wikis, blogs, google docs
Knowledge Wikis
Social-software-mediated collaborative scientific research
Social-software-mediated collaborative tools' development
Knowledge base collaborative development
Ontologies collaborative development - Education and training tools
E-learning
Virtual environments
Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis
- RNA structure prediction
- Collaborative studies of RNAs
- ncRNAs functional analysis and classification
- miRNAs and networks
- Genome-wide functional studies
- Identification of ncRNAs
- Databases of ncRNAs and miRNA targets
- miRNA targets prediction
- Synthetic miRNA and siRNA design
- Gene expression analysis
- Analysis of viral RNAs
- RNAi therapeutics
- Identification of ncRNAs biomarkers
- RNA-protein interaction prediction
Submissions for both oral communications and posters must be short papers of around three A4 pages or 12.000 characters long.
Deadlines
- March 27, 2009: Call for papers launched
- April 28, 2009: Oral communication submission
- May 15, 2009: Posters submission
- May 17, 2009: Early registration
- June 10-13, 2009: Tutorials and Workshop
Acceptation communication: May 12, 2009
Calls for Special Issues
We plan to launch Calls for Special Issues on the themes of the workshop in peer-review journals with associated Impact factor around July for submission in September 2009.
For more informations:
http://www.nettab.org/


