thenth Bio_ontologies Meeting 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTER ABSTRACTS

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Bio-Ontologies Meting

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)

Websites:

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

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

About the Bio-Ontologies SIG Meeting

The meeting will continue to offer an informal environment for 
presentation and discussion of ontologies and their role in providing 
a mechanism for describing biology as well as  organising,
sharing and reconciling data. This year, to 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:

List of 4 items
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

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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