<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><font face="Calibri" size="2" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class="">Submission deadline end of this week !</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class=""><b class="">NETTAB 2018</b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class=""> </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><b class="">Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment</b></span></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class=""> </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class="">October 22-24, 2018, Genoa, Italy</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="http://www.nettab.org/2018/" class="">http://www.nettab.org/2018/</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">Submission deadline for abstracts for oral communications: Sunday May 20, 2018.</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">NETTAB 2018 is organised in collaboration with ELIXIR Nodes of the UK and Italy as well as the Italian Society of Bioinformatics, BITS.</div><div class="">The main focus will be on FAIR principles in bioinformatics, a challenging topic that we hope will attract many researchers from all over the world, including but not limited to, Bioinformaticians, Biologists, Computer Scientists, and others working or interested in the above research scope.</div><div class="">The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship, published in 2016, has sparked worldwide interest across the biology community: from grassroots to policymakers, and from data providers to publishers.</div><div class="">In order to make the FAIR concept a reality, we need to answer many questions, like: What is FAIRness? How to make FAIR data a reality? How to facilitate the translation to FAIR data? How to measure it? On these topics, there are many ongoing projects, such as EOSCpilot, FAIRmetrics, FAIRsharing, and GO-FAIR.</div><div class="">Now is the perfect time to discuss on these topics and related actions, and to move on from FAIR principles to FAIR practice. The workshop will provide an excellent environment and a range of opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches, algorithms, tools, platforms, practical applications and experiences of FAIR in Bioinformatics.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">TOPICS</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Methods, theoretical approaches, algorithms, tools, platforms, practical applications and experiences of FAIR in Bioinformatics including, but not limited to:</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">FAIR concept</div><div class="">• Specification and revision of components, conceptual issues.</div><div class="">• Criticisms and review of FAIR principles</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Development tools</div><div class="">• FAIR Web Services, metadata for FAIR tools, revision of standard formats.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">FAIRification methodologies</div><div class="">• FAIRification best practices and training</div><div class="">• Experiences of FAIR methods</div><div class="">• Best practices and lessons learned from domains outside bioinformatics.</div><div class="">• </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">FAIRness evaluation</div><div class="">• FAIRness validation and correction tools.</div><div class="">• FAIR metrics: Levels of FAIRness, FAIRness scores, FAIRness minimal levels.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">FAIR environment</div><div class="">• Integration and interoperation of FAIR data and systems.</div><div class="">• FAIR and its demonstrated contribution to open science and reproducible results</div><div class="">• FAIR principles and practices of research outputs other than data: workflows, scripts, tools, models, training materials, SOPs etc</div><div class="">• Surveys of FAIR resources and methods</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">FAIR value</div><div class="">• Examples of FAIR in practice and the benefits of FAIR resources</div><div class="">• Related initiatives to FAIR: for example Data Commons and EOSC</div><div class="">• The economics of FAIR</div><div class="">• Incentives for FAIR stewardship throughout the data lifecycle</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">The topics of NETTAB 2018 also include the usual topics of NETTAB workshops. </div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINES</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Submission of abstracts for oral communications: Sunday May 20, 2018</div><div class="">Notification: Monday June 18, 2018</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Abstracts of maximum four A4 pages must be submitted through EasyChair at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2018" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2018</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">See full instructions at:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/submissions/instructions-for-authors/" class="">http://www.igst.it/nettab/2018/submissions/instructions-for-authors/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</b></div><div class=""> </div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 36pt;" class=""><li class="">Michel DUMONTIER, MaastrichtUniversity, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Frederik COPPENS, Gent University , Belgium</li><li class="">Patricia PALAGI, SIB, Switzerland</li><li class="">Christine DURINX, ELIXIR, Switzerland</li></ul><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">GUEST SPEAKERS</b></div><div class=""> </div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 36pt;" class=""><li class="">Rob HOOFT, DTLS, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Rafael JIMENEZ, ELIXIR, UK</li><li class="">Marco ROOS, LUMC, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Amnon SHABO, Siemens, Germany</li></ul><div class=""> </div><div class="">Tutorial/Hackathon programme under definition.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">WORKSHOPS ORGANIZORS</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Carole Goble, University of Manchester</div><div class="">Paolo Romano, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa</div><div class="">Mauro Giacomini, University of Genoa</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class="">SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE</b></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">The Scientific Committee is being defined.</div><div class="">Many invitations are still pending.</div><div class=""> </div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 36pt;" class=""><li class="">Oya Deniz BEYAN, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany</li><li class="">Jan Willem BOITEN, Lygature, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Robin CHAMPIEUX, Oregon Health & Science University, USA</li><li class="">Michael CRUSOE, Common Workflow Language, Lithuania</li><li class="">Peter DOORN, DANS-KNAW, The Netherlands</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 36pt;" class=""><li class="">Michel DUMONTIER, Maastricht University, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Leyla Jael GARCIA CASTRO, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom</li><li class="">Mauro GIACOMINI, University of Genoa, Italy</li><li class="">Carole GOBLE, University of Manchester, United Kingdom</li><li class="">Alasdair GRAY, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom</li><li class="">Paul GROTH, Elsevier Labs</li><li class="">Paolo MANGHI, CNR/ISTI & OpenAIRE, Italy</li><li class="">Patricia PALAGI, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland</li><li class="">Helen PARKINSON, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom</li><li class="">Paolo ROMANO, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy</li><li class="">Susanna Assunta SANSONE, Oxford eResearch Center, United Kingdom</li><li class="">Kees VAN BOCHOVE, The Hyve, The Netherlands</li><li class="">Mark WILKINSON, UPM, Spain</li><li class="">Katherine WOLSTENCROFT, Leiden University, The Netherlands</li></ul><div class=""> </div><div class="">Paolo Romano</div><div class="">on behalf of Workshop Organizors</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Paolo Romano</div><div class="">Ospedale Policlinico San Martino</div><div class="">Genova, Italy</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Skype: p.romano</div><div class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it" class="">paolo.romano@hsanmartino.it</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paolo.dm.romano@gmail.com" class="">paolo.dm.romano@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><font face="Cambria" size="3" color="#00C0FF" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><b class="">CON TE LA NOSTRA RICERCA PUO' DIVENTARE CURA<br class=""></b><font color="#00B0F0" class=""><b class="">DEVOLVI IL TUO 5 X 1000 AL SAN MARTINO!<br class=""></b></font><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">FINANZIAMENTO DELLA RICERCA SANITARIA<br class=""></span></font><font size="2" color="#00B0F0" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><b class="">CODICE FISCALE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></font><font size="4" color="#00B0F0" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><b class="">02060250996<br class=""><br class=""></b></span></font><a href="http://www.ospedalesanmartino.it/sostienici.html" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" color="blue" class=""><u class="">5xmille.ospedalesanmartino.it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u></font></a></span></font></div></span></font></div><br class=""><div class="">
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