Dear Colleagues, Because of a large number of requests, the submission date for the International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) has been extended to October 13th. We hope that you will consider submitting a paper - see submission details below. Note: A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics supplement devoted to the workshop. Best regards, Adrian Paschke (on behalf of all Chairs) ----------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke (paschke(a)inf.fu-berlin.de) AG-CSW (AG Corporate Semantic Web) Free University Berlin Germany International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 28th November 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://www.swat4ls.org/ Call for Papers New submission deadline: 13 October 2008! A selection of papers will be published in a BMC Bioinformatics supplement devoted to the workshop Overview -------- The workshop is organized in sessions and open discussions. Invited speakers will present state-of-theart, provocative lectures on the workshop's main topic, while a number of submissions will be accepted as oral presentations and posters on all workshop's topics. Workshop Description -------------------- Semantic Web technologies, tools and applications are starting to emerge in Life Sciences. In recent years, systems have been introduced and an increasing interest among researchers is arising. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences. Keynote Speakers ------------------------ + Semantic web technology in translational cancer research, Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA + Using Ontologies to bring Web Services on to the Semantic Web Mark Wilkinson, Dept. of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Canada Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------ The workshop will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 November 2008, and is hosted by the e- Science Institute of the UK's National e-Science Centre (NeSC). SWAT4LS will be a one-day workshop and will consist of two invited talks, regular paper and poster presentations. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on the strength and weaknesses of the Semantic Web for the Life Sciences. Deadlines --------- * Submission deadline (both papers and posters): 13 October 2008 (New deadline!) * Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2008 * Camera-ready submission: 3 November 2008 Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web o Semantic Web standards (RDF, OWL, ...) o RDF/OWL, SKOS, .... and their applicability to bioinformatics o RDF Schemas and Query systems o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools o Formal approaches to large biomedical controlled terminologies and vocabularies * Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Bio-ontologies, RDF stores, Semantic Web Services o RDF repositories and query systems for life sciences o Semantically aware biomedical Web Services o Semantic Biological Data Integration Systems * Existing and perspective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Semantic browsers, Semantic collaborative research o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios o Semantic Web applications in life sciences Type of contributions and instructions ---------------------- The following possible original contributions are sought: * Oral communications (regular papers) * Posters * Software demos All contributions must be in English and must be submitted through the EasyChair review system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls. Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee. * Submissions for Oral communications should be between 10 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 4 and 8 pages. All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). Furthermore, a selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the BMC Bioinformatics journal devoted to the SWAT4LS workshop. To this end, a special Call will be launched shortly after the workshop, for extended and revised versions of contributions submitted to the workshop and accepted either as oral communication or poster. For any information, refer to info(a)swat4ls.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.