The third edition of SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences 2010 will be held in Berlin, on next December 10th 2010.

 

Relevant dates:

15 / 09 / 2010: Submissions opening

18 / 10 / 2010: Paper submission deadline

01 / 11 / 2010: Poster and Demo submission deadline

15 / 11 / 2010: Communication of acceptance

 

Following the request from last year participants for tutorial sessions and a longer workshop, we are open to organize related events in the one or two days preceding the workshop. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, organizing an hackathon, a meetup please send a short proposal (half a page) to info@swat4ls.org by June 30th latest.

 

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.

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 unanimously well by participants and a special issue on the Journal of Biomedical Semantics dedicated to this workshop is in preparation.

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 more information:

Web site: LINK

Blog site: LINK

Email: info@swat4ls.org