Welcome to the website of the SWAT4LS series of workshops devoted to Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences.

Next edition:

SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems and semantic technologies in biomedical informatics and computational biology.
The first edition, held in Edinburgh in November 2008, received 40 submissions, of which 13 were accepted as oral communications, and part of them included in a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics dedicated to the workshop.
The second edition, held in Amsterdam in November 2009, received a total of 27 submission, and presented a more varied program with 6 full papers, 3 keynotes, 5 demos, 3 short talks, posters session and panel discussion. This edition has been evaluated unanoumosly well by participants and a special issue on the Journal of Biomedical Semantics dedicated to this workshop is in preparation.
The next edition of SWAT4LS will be held in Berlin, on the December 10th 2010.
As many participants have expressed the desire for a longer workshop and for tutorial sessions, we intend to organize such sessions in the one or two days preceedings the workshop. Anyone interested in organizing a tutorial, hackathon, meetup or other event is invited to contact info@swat4ls.org.
We hope that the next edition of SWAT4LS will provide the same open and stimulating environment that brought together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences in the use of Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences.

For further information: Web: www.swat4ls.org Email: info at swat4ls.org

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Past editions

Edinburgh, 2008
Amsterdam, 2009

Next edition

Berlin, 10th December 2010
(tutorials and other events are planned for the preceedings days)

Proceedings

2008
2009

Special issue

BMC Bioinformatics, SWAT4LS-2008