NETTAB workshops are held under the patronage of the Bioinformatics Italian Society 
Integrated Bio-Search

Workshop on all aspects of data integration search in biomedicine. These include methods, algorithms, tools, platforms and applications for creation, syntactic and semantic management, integration, query, retrieval, and mining of Omics, biological and clinical data information and knowledge.

 

The data deluge of the current post-genomic era is providing scientists with potentially very valuable information, but it makes difficult to find and extract from the increasing available high-throughput Omics data those information that are most reliable and most related to the biomedical questions to be answered. Such questions are increasingly complex and they often simultaneously regard many heterogeneous aspects of an organism, tissue, cell and the role of all biomolecular entities. Several of these questions can be addressed only by comprehensively searching different types of data, which generally are distributed in many heterogeneous sources. Usually, scientists explore these data by using the individual search services and tools available in Internet and they then struggle in combining the essential information in order to answers their global questions.

 

Searching and combining for all open and linked data and algorithmic sources has the potential of reshaping the scenario of current bioinformatics applications, going beyond the capabilities of conventional tools, Web services and existing search engines. Yet, it also presents new technological challenges.

 

Solving data integration and automatic extraction problems requires new solutions, including the use of universal URIs, efficient indexing, partial or approximate value matching, rank aggregation, continuous or push-based search, exploratory methods and context-aware paradigms, collaborative and social search, and building new efficient information retrieval approaches, based on automatization of workflows too.

 

NETTAB 2012 will be focused on "Integrated Bio-Search", which includes all aspects that relate to technologies, methods, architectures, systems and applications for searching, retrieving, integrating and analyzing data, information, knowledge, infrastructures, services and tools that are required to answer complex bio-medical-molecular questions.


The length of abstracts for late posters and software demonstrations should be between 1 and 3 pages,

sections: Motivation and Objectives, Methods, Results and Discussion, References. 
Please visit also the  Call for Late posters and for software demonstrations page

 

 

Web Site:

 

BITS member discount: 30,00 €

 

Provisional scientific committee:

- Bastien Chopard, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

- Frédérique Lisacek, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

- Marco Masseroli, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (socio BITS)

- Luciano Milanesi, National Research Council, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Segrate (Milan), Italy (socio BITS)

- Paolo Romano, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy (socio BITS)

 

Organizing committee

- Marco Masseroli, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (socio BITS)

- Davide Chicco, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (socio BITS)

- Arif Canakoglu, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (socio BITS)

- Paolo Romano, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy (socio BITS)

 
- NEW! August 7, 2012 July 23, 2012: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications

Invited Speaker

Gli speaker non sono ancora tutti confermati.

Sono confermati:

- Erik Bongam-Rudloff, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden. Talk: Integration and analysis of multi-type high-throughput data for biomolecular knowledge discovery

- Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center Talk: Semantics based biomedical knowledge search, integration and discovery

 

Previous editions:

- NETTAB 2011 Clinical Bioinformatics, 12 – 14 Ottobre 2011, Pavia (Supplemento BMC Bioinformatics in preparazione)

- NETTAB 2010 Biological Wikis, 29 Novembre – 1 Dicembre 2010, Napoli (Evento congiunto con BBCC 2010)

- NETTAB 2009 Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development, 10 – 13 Giugno 2009, Catania (Special Issue su Briefings in Bioinformatics 2011 Vol. 12, Issue 6)

- NETTAB 2008 Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex System Applications, 19 – 21 Maggio 2008, Varenna

- NETTAB 2007 A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications, 12 – 15 Giugno 2007, Pisa (Supplemento BMC Bioinformatics 2008 Vol. 9, Supplement 4)