Last Call for Participation

NETTAB 2009 Workshop
on “Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development”

with a Special Session on:
“Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis”

June 10-13, 2009
Department of Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy

KEYNOTE TALKS

RNA WikiProject: Community annotation of RNA families
Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

Who are you? Managing collaborative digital identities in bioinformatics with myExperiment
Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Semantically Integrated eCommunities in Biomedicine: Next-Generation Models of Biomedical Communication
Tim Clark, Director of Informatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Neurology Research Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.

Bacterial Phylogeny and Taxonomy in the High-Throughput Sequencing World
Gabriel Valiente, Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Software, Barcelona, Spain.

Non coding RNAs (title to be confirmed)
Doron Betel, MSKCC – Computational Biology Center, New York, USA .

SELECTED ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

The DC-THERA Directory: A Knowledge Management System to Support Collaboration on Dendritic Cell and Immunology Research
Michaela Guendel, Ciro Scognamiglio, Marco Brandizi and Andrea Splendiani

Bioinformatics Experimentation in a New Agent-Based Infrastructure OpenKnowledge
Dietlind Gerloff, Xueping Quan, Adrian de Pinninck, Paolo Besana, Siu-wai Leung, Marco Schorlemmer and David Robertson

Abstraction based cooperation for the design of bioinformatics workflows
Frédéric Cadier and Philippe Picouet

Biomedical applications in the EELA-2 Project
Leandro N Ciuffo and Rafael Mayo

Make Histri: collaborative curation of exchange histories of bacterial and archaeal type strains
Bert Verslyppe, Paul De Vos, Bernard De Baets and Peter Dawyndt

SBMM Assistant: Social Pathway Annotation
Ismael Navas-Delgado, Alejandro del Real-Chicharro, Francisca Sánchez-Jiménez and Jose F Aldana Montes

GePh-CARD: an information exchange application for an Hub & Spoke Network for Skeletal Dysplasias
Marina Mordenti and Luca Sangiorgi

ProDaMa-C: a collaborative web application to generate specialized protein structure datasets
Giuliano Armano and Andrea Manconi

RNA tertiary structure prediction with ModeRNA
Magdalena Musielak, Kristian Rother, Tomasz Puton and Janusz M. Bujnicki

Improved heuristic for pairwise RNA secondary structure prediction
Olivier Perriquet and Pedro Barahona

Analysing the microRNA-17-92/Myc/E2F/RB Compound Toggle Switch by Theorem Proving
Giampaolo Bella and Pietro Liò

Mapping miRNA genes on human fragile sites and translocation breakpoints
Alfredo Ferro, rosalba giugno, Alessandro Laganà, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Francesco Russo

MicroRNA.gr: A suite of web based tools for elucidating microRNA function
Giorgio L. Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Alexiou, Manolis Maragkakis, Martin Reczko and Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou

miRScape: A Cytoscape Plugin to Annotate Biological Networks with microRNAs
Alfredo Ferro, rosalba giugno, Alessandro Laganà, Misael Mongiovì, Giuseppe Pigola, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Gary Bader and Dennis Shasha

POSTERS

A web site supporting collaborative activities within the Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics
Silvia Giuliani, Elda Rossi, Stefania Parodi and Paolo Romano

Towards closing the gap between user data and standardized input
Alfredo Martínez, Paul Gordon, Christoph W. Sensen and Oswaldo Trelles

Prediction of human targets for viral encoded microRNAs
Alessandro Laganà, Stefano Forte, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Alfredo Ferro

Genome-wide microRNA target gene identification and annotation using multiple prediction algorithms
Dario Corrada, Luciano Milanesi and Daniele Catalucci

Design of highly specific synthetic miRNAs
Alessandro Laganà, Stefano Forte, Angela Papa, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Dennis Shasha and Alfredo Ferro

Paolo Romano
(on behalf of the Organizing Committee)

Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
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