First International School on Semantic Web Applications and Tools in Life Sciences
Aveiro (Portugal), May 2nd-5th, 2012

co-organized by IEETA (http://www.ieeta.pt) and SWAT4LS (http://www.swat4ls.org)


Dear Semantic Web/Life Sciences enthusiast,

It is our great pleasure to announce the first "International School on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences" to be held in Aveiro (Portugal), from May 2nd to 5th, 2012.
This school will provide advanced hands-on training in the use of Semantic Web technologies in research. The format of the school will consist of focused keynotes, tutorials and hands-on sessions. Its content will include core Semantic Web technologies and aspects that complement them in practical applications.
The school aims at bringing together practitioners, researchers and world leaders in the adoption and application of Semantic Web technologies in research, from academia, industry and small companies.

The program of the school will include:
- User Interaction and Semantic Web (Eric Miller, Cognitive Atlas)
- Robust Ontology Design (to be confirmed)
- Semantic Search (Michael Schroeder, GoPubMed)
- Semantic Web Services (Luke McCarthy, SADI)
- Semantic Web and large scale Life Sciences Knowledge Bases (Jerven Bolleman, Uniprot)
- Practical functional genomics with the Semantic Web (Helena Deus, Semantic Web Objects)
- Gene Disease Association (Dietrich Rebholz-Schugmann)

Please refer to http://www.swat4ls.org/schools/aveiro2012/ for a detailed and updated program.


Participants fees are €300 (before March 31st) and €350 (from April, 1st).
The school will be limited to 40 participants.