Call for Papers: JIST 2018 Special Session on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Introduction

The massive, high-quality life sciences databases present a significant analytical challenge due to their complexity and heterogeneous nature. The lack of well- defined standards of formats makes it tedious for bioinformaticians and other researchers alike to obtain data before they can conduct analysis and visual- isation. Semantic Web technologies can contribute to discovering knowledge such as drug discovery and protein pathway prediction, which would be a huge contribution to the biology community. This special track focuses on applying Semantic Web technologies to life sciences data, such as knowledge representa- tion, data integration, and knowledge discovery, and reasoning, etc.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Schema Modelling for Bioinformatics
• Knowledge Representation for Bioinformatics
• Data Integration for Bioinformatics
• Tools and Applications for Bioinformatics
• Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Alignment for Biomedical Informatics
• Visualisation of Biomedical Data
• Knowledge Discovery from Life Science Data
• Semantic Web for Health Care
• Reasoning on Life Science Data

Review Criteria

Papers in this session will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

• Originality
• Novelty
• Significance of the research contributions
• Clarity and quality of presentation

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 3 10 August, 2018 (Extended)
• Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 17 August, 2018 (Extended)
• Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018
• Camera-ready Deadline: 28 September, 2018
• Conference: 26-28 November, 2018

Submission

The papers submitted to special sessions are handled as regular or short papers, which should not be longer than 16 or 8 pages including references, respectively.

Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Please select the "Semantic Web for Life Sciences" when you submit your paper(s).

Special Session Chairs

• Hong-Gee Kim
Director, Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University (SNU BiKE), Korea.


• Yuan-Fang Li
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.


• Lihua Zhao
Researcher, Service Intelligence Research Team, Artificial Intelligence Re- search Center,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech- nology (AIST), Japan.

PC members

• JinHyun Ahn, Assistant Professor, MIS Dept. Jeju National University, Korea.
• Ali Hasnain, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland.
• Ryutaro Ichise, Associate Professor, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
• DongHyuk Im, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Dept. Hoseo University, Korea.
• EungHee Kim, Assistant Professor, Software Engineering Dept. Sunmoon University, Korea.
• Piljong Kim, Senior Researcher, Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Lab, Seoul Na- tional University, Korea.
• Kertkeidkachorn Natthawut, Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.
• Khai Nguyen, Project Researcher, National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
• Norio Kobayashi, Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity (ISC), RIKEN, Japan.
• Dezhao Song, Senior Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters, USA.
• Honghan Wu, Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics King’s College London London, UK.
• Atsuko Yamaguchi, Database Center for Life Science, Japan.