WNB 2012 - 2012 Workshop on Nanoinformatics for Biomedicine

2012 Workshop on Nanoinformatics for Biomedicine
in conjunction with
2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012)
Call For Papers
The application of nanotechnology in biomedicine offers innovative approaches to disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. To address the ever-growing information needs of nanomedicine, nanoinformatics is playing an important role in acquiring relevant data/information, conceptually organizing information for conversion to knowledge, and developing computing applications that are based on important parameters at the nanoscale and applicable in a broad health perspective.
This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on all the aspects of nanoinformatics to support biomedical research and advance knowledge on nanomaterial-biological interactions. The organizers are inviting participants to submit papers with particular emphasis on the following areas: data collection and/or curation, interoperability among different data sources, ethical and social barriers to data sharing, computational or information technologies to solve specific problems, integrative physiological programs, translational research, and others.
Research topics include (but are not limited to):
? Databases and repositories
? Data standards
? Semantic search and ontologies
? Modeling and simulation
? Data mining and knowledge discovery
? Computational toxicology
? Risk assessment and regulation
? Nanomaterial-biological interactions
? Translational nanoinformatics
? Surveillance systems
? Ethical and social issues