Bio-Ontologies at ISMB -- Call for submissions

Dear Colleagues,

Bio-Ontologies (http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) is an International
Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Community of Special Interest
(COSI) and working group focused on the FAIR development and application
of ontologies and other Linked Open Data resources, the latest and most
innovative research in the application of these data, and the
organization, presentation, and dissemination of knowledge in
biomedicine and the life sciences. The Bio-Ontologies meeting will be in
its 25th year at ISMB 2022 (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022), which will
be held in-person and online between July 10-14, 2022.  Bio-ontologies
will feature two days of exciting keynotes and cutting-edge research
with one session conducted jointly with the Bioinformatics Open Source
Conference (BOSC; https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/) COSI.

What: Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting at ISMB

When: July 10-14, 2022

Where: Co-located virtually and in-person with the 30th Annual ISMB
Meeting at Madison, USA

Website: https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting

Submission due: 21 April 2022 (closes at 11:59 p.m., any time zone)

Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismb2022abstracts

We invite the submissions of short papers (2 pages), flash updates (1
page), and poster abstracts (1 page). New this year, we invite Early
Career Submissions as lightning talks (1-2 pages). These submissions are
intended to provide graduate students with the opportunity to present a
short description of their research project at one of the leading
conferences in computational biology and get first-hand feedback and
mentorship from senior researchers in their field. This submission is
open to Masters and Doctoral students who have not defended their thesis
before the submission deadline. All relevant topics are invited. Example
topics include (but not limited to):

- Ontologies in annotations, mapping applications, and metadata standards
- FAIR data systems and application of ontologies and other Linked Open Data
- Bio-curation platforms, collaborative ontology authoring
- Ontology evolution, quality, and evaluation
- Ontologies, knowledge representation, and reasoning
- Ontologies for infectious disease monitoring and prediction
- Ontologies for climate change and its impact on human health
- Machine learning and ontologies
- Text mining and ontologies
- Semantic Web-enabled applications
- Ontologies for biomedical research, health informatics, and health care
- Flash Updates on new and/or existing ontologies, Linked Open Data
  resources, tools, and applications
- Descriptions of DevOps and other types of technical infrastructure and
  pipelines

Please prepare your submission using the Bio-Ontologies templates:
https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting#h.3xx0nigu9kop

All submissions are reviewed (review criteria are provided on the
Bio-Ontologies website). Following review, successful short papers (20
minutes), flash updates (5 minutes), and early career (5 minutes)
submissions will be presented at either the Bio-Ontologies COSI or the
joint Bio-Ontologies and BOSC COSI session. The selection of work to a
specific COSI session is at the discretion of the Bio-Ontologies and
BOSC joint organizing committee. Unsuccessful paper submissions will
automatically be considered for flash updates presentations. All
submissions will be considered for poster presentations.

Accepted submissions require that one author register for the conference
and present the work. The presenter should identify themselves as the
corresponding author during the submission process. All accepted
submissions will be catalogued in the 2022 Bio-Ontologies Zenodo
Community and provided with a citable DOI. Accepted submissions will be
invited to publish an extended version of their work in the
Bio-Ontologies Thematic Series through the Journal of Biomedical
Semantics.

If you have any questions please feel free to send us an email
(bioontologies@gmail.com), message us on Slack
(bioontologies.slack.com), or post a message on Twitter (@bioontologies)
or our LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13998260/).

Sincerely,

The Bio-Ontologies Organizing Committee
https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/