- From: Barry Smith <phismith@buffalo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:56:34 -0300
- To: ontology@buffalo.edu
Preliminary Call for Papers With apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICBO: International Conference on Biomedical Ontology --------------------------------------------------------------------------- University at Buffalo, NY, July 24-26, 2009 Ontologies are being used in a variety of ways by researchers in almost every life science discipline, and their use in annotation of both clinical and experimental data is now a common technique in integrative translational research. Principles-based ontologies are being developed for the description of biological and biomedical phenomena of almost every different type. To be maximally effective, such ontologies must work well together. But as ontologies become more commonly used, the problems involved in achieving coordination in ontology development become ever more urgent. To address these problems there is a need for an overarching conference involving representatives of all major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine. The ICBO conference is designed to meet this need. It will be held in conjunction with four days of tutorials and classes to be scheduled from July 20-23, 2009. Papers are invited in the following areas: Ontologies for Chemistry and Molecular Biology Ontologies in Literature Curation, Text and Data Mining Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Medicine Ontologies for Cell Biology Ontologies for Biomedical Investigations Ontology Engineering Ontologies and Standards Disease Ontologies Areas of special focus will include: Ontologies and the treatment of patient data Biomedical ontology and the Semantic Web The OBO Foundry and other ontology federations Reasoning with biomedical ontologies Evaluation of biomedical ontologies Minimal Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) and related standards Defining disease in a new era of molecular medicine Ontology and natural language processing The role of ontology in the future of scientific publishing Papers for presentation at ICBO must be submitted before March 31, 2009. Guidelines for submission will be published at http://icbo.buffalo.edu/. Organizing Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), University of Buffalo Michael Ashburner, Cambridge University Judith Blake, Jackson Laboratory Suzanna Lewis (Co-Chair), Lawrence Berkeley Labs Yves Lussier, University of Chicago Mark Musen, Stanford University Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons Susanna-Assunta Sansone, EBI Chris Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania ICBO is sponsored by the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR), the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and Science Commons. Participation in this meeting by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities is strongly encouraged.
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