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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

http://www.nettab.org/2009/


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
Fr�d�ric 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 S�nchez-Jim�nez 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 Li�

Mapping miRNA genes on human fragile sites and translocation breakpoints
Alfredo Ferro, rosalba giugno, Alessandro Lagan�, 
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 Lagan�, 
Misael Mongiov�, 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

Prediction of human targets for viral encoded microRNAs
Alessandro Lagan�, 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 Lagan�, Stefano Forte, Angela Papa, 
Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Dennis Shasha and Alfredo Ferro



NETTAB '09 - Ninth International Workshop on 
Network Tools and Applications in Biology
10-13 June 2009, Catania, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/2009/

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