Two Workshops on Biological Wikis

By Iddo on October 15th, 2010

This seems very promising: two consecutive workshops on biological Wikis in Naples. If you have a life-science related wiki, plan on doing one, or just want to learn about how collaborative authoring can help your work, this would be a great place to do so. Thanks to Paolo Romano for the information.

Joint NETTAB 2010 and BBCC 2010 workshops focused on Biological Wikis
November 29 – December 1, 2010, Naples, Italy

http://www.nettab.org/2010/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The joint NETTAB and BBCC 2010 workshop on “Biological Wikis” promises to be a great meeting for all researchers involved in the exploitation of wikis in biology.

Come and discuss your ideas and doubts with such scientists as Alex Bateman, Alexander Pico, Andrew Su, Dan Bolser, Robert Hoffmann, Thomas Kelder, Mike Cariaso, Adam Godzik, Luca Toldo and many other who, we hope, will join the workshop.

It’s a great chance to follow smart tutorials and lectures on WikiPathways, WikiGenes, PDBWiki, Gene Wiki, TOPSAN, and a proficient use of Wikipedia and Semantic Wiki. See below a list of keynote speakers and tutorials.

There still is time to submit abstracts for posters and software demonstrations until next October 17, 2010 (a short delay may also be permitted)!
The complete Call is available on-line at http://www.nettab.org/2010/call.html .

Registration is open at http://www.nettab.org/2010/rform.html .
Register within next October 29, 2010 and take profit of early registration fees.
A reduction of 20 euro applies to all fees for members of ISCB.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

In the style of the other NETTAB workshops, NETTAB 2010 will include: keynote lectures given by leading experts in the field, oral communications from selected contributions, open discussion, selected software demonstrations and posters, as well as tutorials.

Provisional programme ( see http://www.nettab.org/2010/progr.html )

Monday, November 29, 2010 (Tutorial day, open to all interested participants)

The following four tutorials will be given starting at 11.30.

Mining biological pathways using WikiPathways web services and more…
Thomas Kelder, Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT), Maastricht University, the Netherlands

How to create your own collaborative publishing project with WikiGenes
Robert Hoffmann, Computational Biology Center, cBIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MSKCC, New York, USA

Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask
Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Andrew Su, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), San Diego, USA

Semantic MediaWiki: a community database and more.
Dan Bolser, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 (NETTAB workshop day)

A rich scientific programme is foreseen, starting at 9.00. The following five invited talk will be given:

The Pros and Cons of Wikipedia for Scientists
Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Collaborative publishing with authorship tracking and reputation system – WikiGenes
Robert Hoffmann, Computational Biology Center, cBIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MSKCC, New York, USA

WikiPathways, community-based curation for biological pathways
Alexander Pico, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, USA

The Gene Wiki: Achieving critical mass and mining for novel annotations
Andrew Su, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), San Diego, USA

PDBWiki : Success or failure?
Dan Bolser, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Many Oral communications and software demonstrations will be presented, including:

SNPedia
Mike Cariaso, Keygene, The Netherlands

TOPSAN: a collaborative annotation environment for structural genomics and beyond
Adam Godzik, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

A panel discussion with all speakers on the Future of Biological Wikis will close the day. A poster session is also planned.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 (BBCC workshop day)

The programme of this section is yet to be defined.
It will include oral communications mainly from researchers of the Campania region, around Naples.
For previous editions of the BBCC workshop, please visit http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/BBCC/ .

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ( see the full Call at http://www.nettab.org/2010/call.html )

Topics

Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics:
* Wiki development tools (Wikimedia, Wikimedia extensions, Semantic Wikis, Wiki-coupled CMSs, Other wikis)
* Arising issues for the biomedical domain (Authoritativeness of contributions and sites, Quality assessment, Users acknowledgement, Stimulatation of quality ontributions, Authorships management and reward, ‘Scientific production’ value for contributions, Management of bioinformatics data types)
* Wikis and collaborative systems for Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics, Proteins analysis and visualization, Gene and proteins interactions, Metabolic pathways, Oncology research
* Issues to be tackled by wiki and collaborative research for Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics, Proteins analysis and visualization, Gene and proteins interactions, Metabolic pathways, Oncology research

Deadlines

* October 17, 2010: Posters submission (a short delay may be accepted)
o Decisions announced: October 24, 2010
* October 29, 2010: Early registration ends
* November 29 – December 1, 2010: Workshop and Tutorials

Instructions

Submit your contribution through the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2010.
Kindly follow the instructions carefully when preparing your contribution:
* All contributions should follow the same format, as specified here: Times New Roman, 12 pti, page A4, left, right and lower margins: 2.0 cm, upper margin: 2.5 cm
* Abstracts for posters should be no more then 3 pages, including tables and figures. They should include: Introduction, Methods, Results, References.

For any further information or clarification:
Web site: http://www.nettab.org/2010/
Email: info @ nettab . org