University of Amsterdam, Science Park, Amsterdam
November 20th, 2009
RATIONALE The adoption of semantic-enabled applications and collaborative social environments is ever more common in the Life Sciences. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environemnts. Altogether the adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medecine. 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. TOPICS * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web
o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS,... )
o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools
o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases
* Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences
o Semantic biomedical Web Services
o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems
* Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
o Semantics aware application tools
o Semantic collaborative research environments
o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS The following possible contributions are sought:
* Oral communications (regular papers)
* Posters
* Software demos All papers and posters must be in English and must be submitted through the EasyChair review system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls-09 . 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.
PROCEEDINGS All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/).
We are in the process of negotiating the possibility to have a special issue of a major bioinformatics journal related to the 2009 edition of SWAT4LS. 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.
ORGANIZATION
* M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
* Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
* Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
* Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK
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