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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dear all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">here are the most recent news on next NETTAB 2017 workshop on “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Methods, tools & platforms for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”, Palermo, 16-18 October 2017</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Deadline postponed</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Due to many requests, t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">he deadline for the submission of abstracts for oral communication has been postponed until Friday June 9, 2017</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We welcome four-page abstracts on all workshop topics. See</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/topics/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/topics/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submission instructions at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">New Keynote talk announced</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Inna Kuperstein</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, from Institute Pasteur, Paris,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">will give a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">keynote talk on "</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Atlas of Cancer Signaling Network and NaviCell: Systems Biology resources for studying cancer biology</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">See the abstract of her talk at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/#Kuperstein"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/#Kuperstein</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">She is the third confirmed keynote speaker, with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Anita Grigoriadis</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">King’s College</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">London</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Winston Hide</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">University of Sheffield</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">See all keynote talk abstracts at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">New Guest talks announced</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Two guest talks have been confirmed during last weeks.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Raffaele Giancarlo</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, University of Palermo, will speak abou</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Getting Beyond Proof of Principle for Big Data Technologies in Bioinformatics: MapReduce Algorithmic, Programming and Architectural issues</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, while</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Emanuela Merelli</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">University of Camerino,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">will give a talk on “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">To</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">pological Field Theory of Data: a new venue for Biomedical Big Data Analysis</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">See</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">guest</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">talk abstracts at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorials have been defined</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The list of tutorials is now available</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> .</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The following tutorials will be given:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorial 1, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">An introductory tour on Big Data, Big Data technologies, and Big Data applications in Biology and Medicine</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Simona Rombo, University of Palermo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorial 2, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Biological network-based analysis of "-omics" for precision medicine: overview, interaction databases and network diffusion approaches</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ettore Mosca, CNR / ITB, Segrate (MI).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">his t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">utorial</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">offered by CNR</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">InterOmics</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Flagship project</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorial 3, Wednesday October 18, 15:00 – Thursday October 19, 17:00</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Biological Networks: data analysis, visualisation and medical application (provisional title)</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Alberto Calderone, ELIXIR-IIB, Inna Kuperstein, Institut Curie, Paris, Luana Licata, ELIXIR-IIB.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">his t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">utorial</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">offered by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ELIXIR-IIB</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, the Italian ELIXIR node.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Attendance to tutorials is free for workshop participants.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Note, however, that for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">some tutorials a limited number of attendees will be accepted.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Priority will be given to workshop participants on a first-come/first-served policy.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In order to register for the tutorial ONLY, you must send an email to nettab.workshops@gmail.com.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Registration fees have been defined</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The following fees have been defined for early registrations (within September 23, 2017).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Students/ PhD Students: 170.00 €</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Academy/Research: 270.00 €</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Industry: 400.00 €</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A discount of 30.00 € will be applied to researchers from:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">InterOmics</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> CNR Flagship Project, CNR /</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ITB</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">CNR /</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ICAR</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Palermo Area CNR</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Institutes,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ELIXIR</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ELIXIR-IIB</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">EMBnet</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ISCB</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">BITS</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">SFBI</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">PTBI</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ReLiB</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Ospedale Policlinico</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">San Martino</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and to NETTAB Workshops</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">past invited speakers</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">members of the Programme Committee</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ll</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">registration</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">fees include: attendance to scientific sessions, access to the book of abstracts, coffee-breaks and lunches.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Social dinner fee is 35.00 €</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Registration fees will be published in the web site</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> soon.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Post workshop publications</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s you know,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">post workshop</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Special Issue</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> in an</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">International Journal with IF</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> will be published with best full papers from presentations, both oral and poster, given at the Workshop.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A purpose agreement is under discussion with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">BioMed Central</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> for the publication of Supplements in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">BMC Bioinformatics</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Journal of Translation Medicine</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Paolo Romano</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ospedale Policlinico San Martino</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Genova, Italy</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Skype: p.romano</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Email: paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it - paolo.dm.romano@gmail.com </FONT></SPAN></P>
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