Call for papers: WALS 2024 - The 3rd International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences - @ICWE 2024

[Silvia Cascianelli]

******WALS 2024: The 3rd International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences ******

In conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2024) in Tampere, Finland - June 17-20, 2024 (in-person conference)

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Conference website

http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/wals2024/ 

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Submission link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals24 

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Submission deadline: April 14th, 2024

******Workshop focus******

The recent advances in unraveling the secrets of human conditions and diseases have encouraged new paradigms for their diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the recent pandemics have brought increasing attention toward the genetic mechanisms of viruses and infected hosts. The information related to these phenomena is increasing at unprecedented rates, directly impacting the design and development of data management pipelines and their applications. New ways of processing and exposing data and knowledge on the Web in healthcare and life sciences environments are thus strongly needed.

The WALS workshop, at its third edition, aims at being a meeting forum for Web Engineering, Data Management, and Bioinformatics researchers working on life sciences problems, offering the opportunity to share, discuss and find new approaches to support Search, Knowledge Extraction, and Data Science on the Web, thereby achieving important results for healthcare, precision medicine, biology, genomics, and virology.

The workshop welcomes submissions of fresh investigations and demonstrations concerning conceptual, experimental, and applied studies of life sciences problems on the Web. Directions of particular interest include: 1) monitoring and adaptation of Web Engineering techniques for life sciences; 2) design and engineering of Web applications for resolving life sciences problems; 3) development of crowdsourcing and collaborative strategies for life sciences data curation, integration, and discovery.

******Topics of interest******

The workshop focuses on Web Engineering as a means for facing the challenges that emerge when designing and developing applications for life sciences, focused on several branches such as healthcare, precision medicine, molecular biology, genomics, and virology. The workshop is not restricted to particular research methods, and we will consider conceptual, empirical, and applied research (including practical demonstrations). 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Web applications modeling and engineering for genomics
• Web applications for the management of electronic/digital health records (EHR)
• Web user interfaces for genomics, virology, or molecular biology
• Development of Web systems for Precision Medicine
• Web services for exploration of life sciences databases and knowledge graphs
• Biological knowledge extraction
• Genomic big data analytics
• Web crowdsourcing methods for life sciences data curation and annotation
• Information visualization and exploratory analysis methods for biology
• Data science applications to healthcare and biology on the Web
• Semantic Web knowledge representation for genomics
• Life sciences Semantic Web applications
• Biomedical ontologies engineering
• Interoperability of health information systems and databases on the Web
• Web Engineering techniques for FAIRification of biological datasets
• COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 tracking via Web applications

 

******Proceedings******

ICWE 2024 proceedings will be part of the ICWE 2024 Workshop volume published in Springer series, as per the usual tradition of the ICWE conference joint events (see last year's ICWE 2023 Workshop volume). The authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For style files and details, see the page https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. 

The workshop will accept two types of contributions:

• Full papers: maximum 12 pages, including references
• Short/demo papers: maximum 6 pages, including references

Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals24.

******Important Dates******

Paper submission: April 14th, 2024

Notification: May 5th, 2024

Article revision deadline: May 15th, 2024

ICWE Conference dates: June 17-20th, 2024

Workshop day: June 17th, 2024

Camera-ready version and copyright form: July 20th, 2024

******Organizing Committee******

Pietro Pinoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Silvia Cascianelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Alberto García S., Universitat Politècnica de València

Main contact: pietro...@polimi.it 

[Lamia Youseff]

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  -  Research Engineer
  -  Research Intern

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I am their Tech advisor. Feel free to reply (little "r") with your resume and I will forward your email or apply online in the links above. 

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[Silvia Cascianelli]

[Silvia Cascianelli]

******WALS 2024: The 3rd International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences ******

In conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2024) in Tampere, Finland - June 17-20, 2024 (in-person conference)

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Conference website

http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/wals2024/ 

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Submission link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals24 

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Submission deadline:  April 14th, 2024  DEADLINE EXTENDED to April 28th, 2024!

Paper submission: April 14th, 2024 April 28th, 2024