Bio-Ontologies SIG at ISMB/ECCB 2007 - Call for Papers

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    CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTER ABSTRACTS

 

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Bio-Ontologies SIG Workshop

Vienna, Austria: July 19th 2007

 

"Bio-Ontologies: ten years past and looking to the future"

 

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    15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for
    Molecular Biology (ISMB)


    & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Vienna,
    Austria: July 18-25, 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTER ABSTRACTS

 

The long-standing ISMB Bio-Ontologies SIG is in its tenth consecutive 
year. This year the workshop will have a celebratory and reflective 
discussion on "Bio-Ontologies: ten years past and looking to the future".

 

Program chairs:

Robert Stevens (1), Phillip Lord (2), Robin McEntire (3), 
Susanna-Assunta Sansone (4)

1.      School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

2.      School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom

3.      GlaxoSmithKline, USA

4.      EMBL-EBI The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, 
United Kingdom

 

Websites:

Bio-Ontologies SIG workshop http://bio-ontologies.org.uk 
<http://bio-ontologies.org.uk/>

ISMB/ECCB main conference website http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/

 

About the Bio-Ontologies SIG workshop

The workshop will continue offer an informal environment for 
presentation and discussion of ontologies and their role in providing a 
mechanism for organising, sharing and reconciling data. This year, o 
celebrate its tenth anniversary, we have invited four presenters from 
the first bio-ontologies tutorial and meeting organisers to sit on a 
panel, namely:

-          Mark Musen

-          Peter Karp

-          Russ Altman

-          Steffen Schulze-Kremer

They will be asked to present positions on the following questions:

   1. What has been the best thing to have happened in bio-ontologies in
      the past ten years?
   2. What has been the worst thing to have happened in bio-ontologies
      in the past ten years?
   3. How must bio-ontologies progress in the next ten years?
   4. How must bio-ontologies not progress in the next ten years

 

Call for papers and poster abstract:

We are inviting two types of submissions SHORT PAPER papers (up to 4 
pages) and POSTER ABSTRACT (up to 1/2 page) from any aspect doing 
bio-ontology research or using bio-ontologies to do bioinformatics 
research. Topics include, but are not restricted to:

-          Biological Applications of Ontologies

-          Reports on Newly Developed or Existing Bio-Ontologies

-          Tools for Developing Ontologies

-          Use of Ontologies in Data Communication Standards

-          Use of Semantic Web technologies in Bioinformatics

-          The implications of Bio-Ontologies or the Semantic Web for 
the drug discovery process

-          Current Research In Ontology Languages and its implication 
for Bio-Ontologies

 

DETAILS AND DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:

May 1st, 2007

Full submission details will be soon available at 
http://bio-ontologies.org.uk/submissions.php