NETTAB 2017 Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era

The Workshop "Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era" is organised by NETTAB (International Workshop Series on Network Tools and Applications for Biology), and it will be held at the local research area of italian CNR (National Research Council) in Palermo.

TOPICS
The topics of the joint event include, beside the usual NETTAB workshops topics, an additional special event topic. Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era (Special Event Topic), including:

Data management: Biomedical Big Data Management, Standards for Clinical and Genetic Data, Data Privacy and Security, Omics Data Integration, Biobanks

Data analysis: Omics Data analysis, Genetic Mutation Analysis, Biomarkers Discovery, NGS Data Analysis, Patient Information Analytics

Tools and Services: Clinical Genomics Services, Models for Clinic and Genetic Data, Mobile tools and applications, Interoperability of Clinical and omic tools, Communication
Technologies for Health-Care.

Platforms: Integrated Data Warehouses, Integration of Applications and Data Services, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Healthcare Systems

NETTAB Workshop topics
Bioinformatics methods, standards, tools, applications and experiences deployed over Internet, including:

On-line databases, software tools, user interfaces
Data integration and data fusion platforms, integrated bio-search
Grid and clouds applications and platforms
APIs and Web Services, workflow management platforms
Semantic tools, biomedical ontologies
Semantic Web tools, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints
Biological Wikis, social applications for life sciences
Tools for collaborative development of software, databases and documents
Mobile bioinformatics apps

The programme will include tutorials which will be held in part before and in part after the workshop. For more information on tutorials see http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials .

The workshop will run from the early afternoon of Monday 16 October 2017 until the late morning of Wednesday 18 October 2017.

Winston Hide, Professor of Computational Biology, University of Sheffield, UK.

Anita Grigoriadis, Lecturer in Cancer Bioinformatics, King's College, London, UK.

Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy

Chiara Marchiori, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy

Allegra Via, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy

For more information on talks see http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers.

Registration fees are available in the workshop web site. See http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/registration/reg_newinfo