We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Pharma-Bio-Med 2010. The 2010 conference will take place November 7-10, 2010 in Seville, Spain. Papers are now being invited from information, knowledge and informatics practitioners working within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biomedical and health sciences fields.
Call for Papers:
Papers should address unique challenges, new developments and solutions, and best practices across the spectrum of pharma-bio-med information. There is a focus on papers that offer practical benefits, such as those which evaluate or critically analyse a particular aspect of interest, describe the benefits and lessons learned from the implementation of new technologies, or share new insights or future vision with fellow professionals within these industries.
Presentations should be tailored towards Information, knowledge and informatics professionals and managers, and may address any aspect of information and knowledge flow throughout the Research, Development and Commercial lifecycle of a therapeutic agent.
Subjects covered may fall under one or more of the following broad categories:
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Enabling technologies, including integration, text mining, visualization and knowledge extraction
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Techniques for integrating, searching and processing biomedical information
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Sources, tools, techniques and processes for managing pre-clinical and clinical trials information, drug-pipeline and competitor/business intelligence, safety and regulatory information
Examples of specific, high-interest topics could include:
Management of information for drug discovery, development and getting to market faster
Techniques of searching and analysing scientific and technical information for the drug discovery process
Competitor and business information analysis and evaluation
Text/data mining, visualisation from multiple data sources, and acquiring knowledge
The frontier between Knowledge Management and Information Management
Business models of information department functioning
Managing information overflow
Examples of integrated workflow solutions
Challenges and solutions for data integration and standardisation
Information management for small/medium sized organisations compared to big pharma
Information audits, measurements and metrics
Copyright/license awareness and compliance implementation
Business development and the Information Professional -- how to communicate value
Bridging the gap between Information Professionals and End Users
The where and how of specialist databases, e.g. covering product literature, genomics, medical conferences, etc.
EMEA/FDA -- to what extent are sources available and how can they be accessed?