[AISWorld] CFP - International Workshop on Web Applications for Life Sciences (@ ICWE 2023)

[Alberto García S.]

******WALS 2023: The 2nd International Workshop on Web Applications for 
Life Sciences ******

In conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering 
(ICWE 2023) in Alicante, Spain - June 6-9, 2023 (in-person conference)

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Conference website
http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/wals2023/

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Submission link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wals2023

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Submission deadline: April 14th, 2023

******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 second 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 2023 proceedings will be part of the ICWE 2023 Workshop volume 
published in Springer series. 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=wals2023.

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

Paper submission: April 14th, 2023
Notification: May 5th, 2023
Article revision deadline: May 15th, 2023
ICWE Conference dates: June 6-9th, 2023
Camera-ready version and copyright form: July 9th, 2023

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

Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alberto García S., Universitat Politècnica de València
Pietro Pinoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Main contact: algarsi3 at pros.upv.es