Title: SWAT4LS Call for participation

*** apologies for multiple postings ***


Registration is now open for SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and =20
Tools for Life Sciences

to be held in Amsterdam, Science Park, 20th November 2009

Registration: http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/rform.php#rform

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Provisional scientific program:

Keynotes:
  * Alan Ruttenberg: Semantic Web Technology to Support Studying the =20
Relation of HLA Structure Variation to Disease

  * Barend Mons: (provisional) CWA: The meta-analysed Semantic Web , =20
getting rid of ambiguity and redundancy

  * Michael Schroeder: Prediction of drug-target interactions from =20
literature by context similarity

Accepted papers:

* OBO & OWL: Roundtrip Ontology Transformations
	Syed Hamid Tirmizi, Stuart Aitken, Dilvan Moreira, Chris =
Mungall, =20
Juan Sequeda, Nigam H. Shah and Daniel P. Miranker.

* Mining Semantic Networks of Bioinformatics e-Resources from Literature
	Hammad Afzal, James Eales, Robert Stevens and Goran Nenadic.

* Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics and Proteochemometrics
	Egon Willighagen and Jarl Wikberg.

* TIM: A Semantic Web Application for the Specification of Metadata =20
Items in Clinical Research
	Matthias L=F6be, Magnus Knuth and Roland M=FCcke.

* Semantics-Based Composition of EMBOSS Services with Bio-jETI
	Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Stefan Naujokat, Tiziana Margaria and =
Bernhard =20
Steffen.

* Towards the Ontology-based Classification of Lymphoma Patients using =20=

Semantic Image Annotations
	Sonja Zillner.


Short communications:

* Weekend Triple Billionaire
	Jerven Bolleman and Thomas Kappler.

* Towards a Logic-based Assessment of the compatibility of UMLS sources
	Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Rafael Berlanga and =
Ian =20
Horrocks.

* Using the NCBO Web Services for Concept Recognition and Ontology =20
Annotation of Expression Datasets
	Simon Twigger, Joey Geiger and Jennifer Smith.

Demos:

* A system for repairing missing is-a structure in ontologies
	Patrick Lambrix, Qiang Liu and He Tan.

* NeuroLex.org - A semantic wiki for neuroinformatics based on the NIF =20=

Standard Ontology
	Stephen Larson, Sarah Maynard, Fahim Imam and Maryann Martone.

* ContentCVS: A CVS-based Collaborative ONTology ENgineering Tool
	Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks and =
Rafael =20
Berlanga.

* DC-THERA Directory, a Knowledge Management System for the support of =20=

the European Dendritic Cell Immunology Community
	Marco Brandizi, Michaela G=FCndel, Ciro Scognamiglio and Andrea =20=

Splendiani.

Panel discussion:
Theme: TBD

Plus poster sessions (authors of posters are not listed in this call, =20=

but will be listed on the website)

An updates version of the program will be available at =
http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/progr.php

Early registrations are very appreciated.

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Registrations costs:
full registration: 50 euros
social dinner (optional): 35 euros
PhD students: free (subject to availability)

To register please visit: http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/rform.php#rform

Organization
  * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University =20
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  * Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, =20
Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research =20
Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
   * Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet =20
Berlin, Germany
   * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, =20=

Genova, Italy
   * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., =20
Rothamsted Research, UK

More information
    * http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/
    * http://swat4ls.blogspot.com
    * [email protected]

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We wish to thank once again the review panel that made this possible:

      * Christopher J. O. Baker, Department of Computer Science and =20
Applied Statistics, University of Brunswick, Canada
      * Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New University of =20
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
      * Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Transinsight GmbH, Dresden, Germany
      * Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, =20
MD, United States of America
      * Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, School of Computer Science, University =20=

of Machester, manchester, United Kingdom
      * Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, =20
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
      * Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University =20
School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America
      * Tim Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical =20=

School, Boston MA, United States of America
      * Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
      * Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France
      * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
      * Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
      * Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
      * C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of =20=

Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
      * Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
      * Jacob Tilman Koehler, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, =20
Institute of Medical Biology, University of Troms=F6, Troms=F6, Norway
      * Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University =20=

School of Medicine, United States of America
      * Martin Kuiper, Department of Pathology, Systems Biology group, =20=

Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, =20=

Trondheim, Norway
      * Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information =20
Science, Link=F6ping University, Link=F6ping, Sweden
      * Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle =20
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
      * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / =20
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      * Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, United =20=

States of America
      * Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology, =20
University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
      * Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of =20
Amsterdam, Netherlands
      * Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, United States =20=

of America
      * Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Konrad Lorenz =20
Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
      * Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, =20
Stanford, United States of America
      * Michael Schr=F6der, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, =20=

Germany
      * Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of =20
Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
      * Tetsuro Toyoda, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
      * Mark D. Wilkinson, iCAPTURE Center, St. Paul Hospital, =20
Vancouver, Canada