It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 9th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2016). SWAT4LS is an international conference to meet and to present high-quality research results and relevant demos, applications and tutorials from all fields of Semantic Data Science and Web technologies in Health Care and Life Sciences. The objectives of the SWAT4LS conference are to provide a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting on relevant experience relating to the adoption of Web based information systems and Semantic technologies in biomedical informatics and computational biology. The conference also aims at providing a forum to exchange ideas, for example, through poster papers and demo papers.
● and Andre Dekker, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Department of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, The Netherlands; RDF2Graph a tool to recover, understand and validate the ontology of an RDF resource, by Jesse van Dam, Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University The SWAT4LS 2016 organizers were pleased to note that new 4-day format (1 day tutorial, 2 days conference and 1 day hackathon), introduced last year, has again proven highly successful and continues to attract key experts in the field.
The SWAT4LS 2016 organizers wish to thank the excellent program committee for their hard work in reviewing the submitted papers. Their criticism and very useful comments and suggestions were instrumental to achieve a high quality of publication. We also thank the conference authors for submitting good papers, responding to the reviewers’ comments, and abiding by our proceedings production schedule. We further wish to thank the keynote speakers to contribute their interesting talks. We are very grateful to our sponsors: ELIXIR UK, SOHARD Software GmbH, Micelio and ENPICOM.