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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I’m glad to be able to send you the Call for poster abstracts and for Participation in the next NETTAB 2017 workshop.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The workshop appears to be of a special interest this year, with many prestigious speakers already confirmed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Don’t miss the opportunity to attend this event!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All the best. Paolo Romano<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>NETTAB 2017 workshop on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>16-18 October 2017, Palermo, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Call for poster abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Topics<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Special 2017 topics: Bioinformatics methods, tools & platforms for personalized medicine, including data management, data analysis, platforms, tools and services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Bioinformatics methods, standards, tools, applications and experiences deployed over Internet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>See detailed list of topics at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/topics/ .<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Deadlines<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Submission of abstracts for posters and for software demonstrations: <b>Wednesday September 13, 2017</b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Submission of abstracts for late posters: Friday October 6, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>Two-page abstracts are welcome. Submission instructions at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/ .<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Proceedings and Post workshop publications<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>Proceedings of the workshop will consist in a collection of preprints on PeerJ Preprints.<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A post workshop <b>Special Issue</b> will be published with best <b>full papers from presentations, both oral and poster, given at the Workshop</b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A purpose agreement is under discussion with BioMed Central for the publication of <u>Supplements in BMC Bioinformatics and in the Journal of Translation Medicine</u>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Call for participation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Keynote speakers<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Inna Kuperstein, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Anita Grigoriadis, King’s College of London, United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Winston Hide, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>See keynote abstracts at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/</u> .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Guest talks <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Alexander Kel, GeneXplain Gmbh, Germany.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chiara Marchiori, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Francis Ouellette, Genome Quebec, Canada.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Allegra Via, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>See guest talk abstracts at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/ .<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Tutorials<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tutorial 1, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>An introductory tour on Big Data, Big Data technologies, and Big Data applications in Biology and Medicine<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Simona Rombo, University of Palermo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tutorial 2, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>Biological network-based analysis of "-omics" for precision medicine: overview, interaction databases and network diffusion approaches<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Ettore Mosca, CNR / ITB, Segrate (MI).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tutorial 3, Wednesday October 18, 15:00 – Thursday October 19, 17:00<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>Biological Networks: data analysis, visualisation and medical application<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Alberto Calderone, ELIXIR-IIB, Inna Kuperstein, Institut Curie, Paris, Luana Licata, ELIXIR-IIB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>The list of tutorials is available at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials/ .<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Attendance to tutorials is free for workshop participants.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Registration fees<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Early registrations fees (within <b>September 23, 2017</b>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>· Students/ PhD Students: 170.00 €<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>· Academy/Research: 270.00 €<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>· Industry: 400.00 €<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A <b>discount of 30.00 €</b> will be applied to researchers from many societies, institutes and projects.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>Check the full list at <a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/registration/reg_newinfo/"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/registration/reg_newinfo/</span></a> .<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Paolo Romano<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Ospedale Policlinico San Martino<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Genova, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Skype: p.romano<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Email: paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it - paolo.dm.romano@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>