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SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

NBIC
Date:
20 Nov 2009
Location:
Science Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of technologies and tools provided by the Semantic Web in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences.
 
The adoption of semantic enabled applications and collaborative social environments is ever more common in the Life Sciences. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences had potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medicine.

The programme for the 2009 edition of SWAT4LS in in definition. The workshop will range over one full day (from 9.00am to 6.30pm), and will be followed by a social dinner.

The scientific programme will include:

  • invited lectures
  • oral communications on applications, tools and use cases, selected from submissions 
  • poster/demo session
  • a panel discussion on perspectives of the Semantic Web in life sciences

The keynote speakers of the 2009 edition of SWAT4LS will be:

  • Barend Mons, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam and Leiden University Medical Center
  • Michael Schroeder, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden 
  • Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons 

For more information and registration visit the website: http://swat4ls.org/2009/

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