- From: Barry Smith <phismith@buffalo.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:13:43 -0500
- To: ontology@buffalo.edu
Final Call for Papers The International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies is the first major conference covering all aspects of biomedical ontology. Papers and posters are invited on the following topics: 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 Defining disease in a new era of molecular medicine Ontology and natural language processing The role of ontology in the future of scientific publishing Important dates March 1: Deadline for submission of papers March 24: Notification of acceptance of papers April 10: Deadline for submission of posters April 20: Notification of acceptance of posters June 10: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy July 20-23: Co-located tutorials and classes July 24-26: ICBO Conference Fellowships A number of fellowships will be available to support participation by students and by early-career researchers (less than 5 years from award of PhD). To apply for one of these fellowships please submit your CV and research statement before March 1 to ontology@buffalo.edu. Publication All accepted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings to be distributed at the meeting. In addition, a number of papers will be subjected to further refereeing, for publication in the following journals: Applied Ontology (IOS Press, for papers on foundational aspects of ontology) Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (Oxford University Press, for papers on databases and curation) Journal of Biomedical Ontology (for papers on biomedical ontology). 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 For further information see http://icbo.buffalo.edu or write to <mailto:ontology@buffalo.edu>ontology@buffalo.edu. Participation in this meeting by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities is strongly encouraged.
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