SWAT4LS Workshops

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

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

We are going to announce the next edition shortly. A flyer will be on distribution at next ISMB/ECCB conference in Stockholm on Jun 27 - Jul 3 2009. What follows is a short announcement and a preliminary list of topics.

SWAT4LS 2009

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

Amsterdam, Science Park, 20th November 2009

SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Semantic Web technologies and tools 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 (in preparation).
The second 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.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web
    • Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS,... )
    • Biomedical Ontologies and related tools
    • Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases
  • Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
    • RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences
    • Semantic biomedical Web Services
    • Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems
  • Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
    • Semantics aware application tools
    • Semantic collaborative research environments
    • Case studies, use cases, and scenarios

Deadlines:

  • Tue 1st September: Open submission site
  • Mon 28th September: Paper submission deadline
  • Fri 23rd October: Communication of acceptance
  • Fri 6th November: Revised paper deadline
  • Fri 20th November: SWAT4LS Workshop

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

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Next edition
Amsterdam, 2009

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