<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">
<!-- converted from rtf -->
<style><!-- .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } --></style>
</head>
<body>
<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
<div>Dear all,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>this is reminder that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for posters for next NETTAB 2018 workshop is set to next Sunday September 16, 2018.</div>
<div>See the Instructions for authors here below.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Devoted to the FAIR approach, tools and applications in bioinformatics, it is for sure one of the best programmes set up for a NETTAB workshop.</div>
<div>I invite everybody to have a careful look at the programme at <a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/programme/scientific-programme/"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/programme/scientific-programme/</u></font></a> .</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Here is a quick summary of the programme.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><b>KEYNOTE TALKS</b></div>
<div> </div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Are we FAIR yet? And will it be worth it?</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Michel Dumontier, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>FAIR data, tools and workflows: a user perspective</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Frederik Coppens, VIB, University of Gent, Belgium, & ELIXIR Belgium</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>ELIXIR Core Data Resources: FAIR, community and impact</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Christine Durinx, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Challenges in adopting FAIR principles in Training</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Patricia Palagi, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland</div>
<div> </div>
<div><b>GUEST TALKS</b></div>
<div> </div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Paradigm shifts in health informatics needed for leveraging FAIR data environments</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Amnon Shabo, The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>A FAIR approach to Research Data Stewardship and Data Stewardship Planning – Guest Lecture</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Rob Hooft, Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences – DTLS, The Netherlands</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>BioExcel & ELIXIR: towards interoperable and reproducible biomolecular research workflows</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Adam Hospital, IRB Barcelona, Spain</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>FAIR data and EOSC: Strategy for finding and accessing datasets at EOSC</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Rafael Jimenez, ELIXIR Europe, United Kingdom</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Standards and SOP implementation in the life-sciences research: a snapshot from the CA CHARME</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Domenica D’Elia, CNR/ITB, Bari, Italy</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>From rare to FAIR data in the rare disease community</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Marco Roos, Leiden University Medical Centre – LUMC, The Netherlands</div>
<div> </div>
<div><b>TUTORIALS</b></div>
<div> </div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Bioschemas, a lightway approach to enable FAIRer data resources</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Leyla Jael Garcia Castro, Ricardo Arcila, Rafael Jimenez, Victoria Dominguez del Angel</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Organized in collaboration with ELIXIR.</div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>The ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard – how to guide life science researchers towards FAIR data management</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font face="Calibri CE">Rob Hooft, Vojtìch Knai<font face="Calibri">sl, Jan Slifka</font></font></div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Organized by ELIXIR-NL and ELIXIR-CZ.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><b>SATELLITE EVENT</b></div>
<div> </div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<li><b>Adopting Open Source Software FAIR Practices</b></li></ul>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Allegra Via and Mateusz Kuzak</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">Organized by ELIXIR-IIB</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I hope that many of you will take this occasion to present their work and I’m looking forward to meeting you in Genoa soon.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>All the best. Paolo Romano</div>
<div> </div>
<div>===</div>
<div> </div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">NETTAB 2018</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Genova, October 22-24, 2018</span></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Instructions for authors</b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Abstracts for posters and software demonstrations must be submitted as PDF files through <b>EasyChair</b> at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2018"><font color="blue"><u>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2018</u></font></a>
.<br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Accepted abstracts must then be revised and resubmitted for inclusion in the Proceedings.<br>
No Copyright form or permission is required for abstracts, since proceedings won’t be officially published. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Authors of all works presented at the workshop will be invited to a Call for papers for a Special Issue in an International Journal with IF. </span></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Instructions for the preparation of the abstract:</span></font></div>
<ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
<li><b>page size</b>: A4; all margins: 2cm; paragraphs justified; single line spacing</li><li><b>font</b>: Arial (or Helvetica); sizes: title 14pts; authors’ names 11pts; affiliations 10pts; section headings 12pts; body text 11pts; bibliography 10pts</li><li><b>length</b>: max 2 pages for posters and software demos</li><li><b>sections</b>: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions (omit for posters and software demos), References</li><li><b>tables and figures</b>: include one per type, only when needed</li></span></font>
</ul>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Templates</b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Templates for <a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2016/files/2016/05/NETTAB2016_shortTemplateForAbstracts.docx">MS Word</a> and <a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2016/files/2016/06/Latex-template-abstract-NETTAB.txt">LaTeX</a>
(renamed as txt for security reasons) are available at <a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/submissions/instructions-for-authors/"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/submissions/instructions-for-authors/</u></font></a> .</span></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Deadline</b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">are due within Sunday September 16, 2018.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">A short delay may be acceptable, please get in touch wit the organizers at <a href="mailto:nettab.workshops@gmail.com"><font color="blue"><u>nettab.workshops@gmail.com</u></font></a> .</span></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Instructions for the preparation of posters<br>
</b>The maximum poster size is <b>A1</b> in <b>portrait</b> format, i.e. 84,1 cm (height) x 59,4 cm (width).<br>
Note that posters will be displayed on a limited number of panels: it is <b>essential</b> that all <b>posters are printed in the appropriate format</b>.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Presenters are invited to attend their poster when possible and to leave their contact information near to the poster. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Paolo Romano</div>
<div>Ospedale Policlinico San Martino</div>
<div>Genova, Italy</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Skype: p.romano</div>
<div>Email: paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it - paolo.dm.romano@gmail.com </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
</span></font>
</body>
</html>