NETTAB 2017

Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era
16-18 October 2017, Palermo, Italy

http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/

SPEAKERS

Keynotes (confirmed only)

- Winston Hide, University of Sheffield, UK.

- Anita Grigoriadis, King's College, London, UK.

Guests (confirmed only)

- Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy

- Chiara Marchiori, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

- Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy

Tutorials (confirmed only)

- Giuseppe Cattaneo, University of Salerno, Italy

Further Speakers to be announced soon.

VENUE

The Workshop will be held at the site of the Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (ICAR-CNR) of the Italian National Research Council in Palermo.

PROCEEDINGS AND POST-WORKSHOP PUBLICATION

Proceedings of the event will consist in a Collection in PeerJ Preprints.

The publication of full papers from presentations given at the Workshop in Special Issues of BMC Bioinformatics and the Journal of Translation Medicine is under discussion.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTERS

DEADLINES

Abstracts for oral communications (max four pages): May 26, 2017

Abstracts for posters, software demo and late posters (max two pages): TBA

TOPICS

The special topic is "Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era", which includes:

Data management: Biomedical Big Data Management, Standards for Clinical and Genetic Data, Data Privacy and Security, Omics Data Integration, Biobanks

Data analysis: Omics Data analysis, Genetic Mutation Analysis, Biomarkers Discovery, NGS Data Analysis, Patient Information Analytics

Tools and Services: Clinical Genomics Services, Models for Clinic and Genetic Data, Mobile tools and applications, Interoperability of Clinical and omic tools, Communication Technologies for Health-Care.

Platforms: Integrated Data Warehouses, Integration of Applications and Data Services, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Healthcare Systems

Traditional NETTAB topics also apply (see full list in the web site).

INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions are sought for oral communications, posters and software demos.

Abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2017 for the proper evaluation.

See full instructions: http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/

CHAIRS

Paolo Romano & Alfonso Urso & Alfonso Valencia

CONTACTS

Email: nettab.workshops@gmail.com

Twitter: @NETTABWorkshops

Announce list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nettab-announce

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3209661