WALS 2022: 1st International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences Bari Bari, Italy, July 8, 2022 |
Conference website | http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/wals2022/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals2022 |
Submission deadline | May 5, 2022 |
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing original and unpublished results regarding any of the workshop’s topics of interest. Manuscripts must be prepared using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The page limit for workshop papers is 12 pages for full papers or 6 pages for short/demo papers (both including references). Papers must be submitted as PDF files using this EasyChair CfP.
To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by the Program Committee. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 12 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Submission to WALS 2022 are electronically only.
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 COVID-19 pandemic has attracted 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 aims at being an initial 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.
List of Topics
- 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
Committees
Program Committee
- Arif Canakoglu, Policlinico di Milano Ospedale Maggiore - Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda
- Mario Cannataro, Magna Graecia University
- Stefano Ceri, Polytechnic University of Milan
- Carlo D'Eramo, Technical University of Darmstadt
- Jose Luis Garrido, University of Granada
- Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente
- Ana León Palacio, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Sergio Lifschitz, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Rosario Michael Piro, Polytechnic University of Milan
- José Fabián Reyes Román, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Pasquale Stano, University of Salento
Organizing committee
- Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Giuseppe Agapito, Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Italy
- Luca Nanni, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pietro Pinoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Publication
WALS 2022 proceedings will be part of the ICWE 2022 Workshops volume published in Springer series.
Post-conference publication
We are discussing a preliminary agreement with BMC Bioinformatics journal (2-year IF 3.169) for a post-conference supplement related to Web Applications for Life Sciences. All the papers accepted to our workshop will be invited to submit a revised and extended version to the journal supplement.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline papers: 5 May, 2022 (EXTENDED!)
- Author notification: 31 May, 2022
- Workshop date: 8 July, 2022
- Camera-ready version: 29 July, 2022
Venue
The workshop will be held in Bari, Italy. It will be co-located with the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2022).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to:
- anna.bernasconi@polimi.it