Bio-Ontologies @ ISMB Call for Papers

Dear (Bio-)Ontology community,

CfP - ISMB Bio-Ontologies COSI Track Montreal (Canada) 2024

What: Annual Bio-Ontologies Community of Special Interest Meeting
When: July 12-16, 2024
Where: Montreal, Canada, part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular
Biology (ISMB) Conference
Website: https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2024-meeting

Bio-Ontologies (https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) is an International
Society of Molecular Biology (ISMB) Community of Special Interest (COSI)
and working group focused on the 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. Bio-Ontologies will be in its 27th
year at ISMB 2024 (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024), which will be held
between July 12-16, 2024 and will feature two days of exciting keynotes
and cutting-edge research in the field of Bio-Ontologies.

This year, Bio-Ontologies will feature two exciting keynote speakers:

Karin Slater: Dr. Slater is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Semantics at the University of Birmingham, working in the Centre for
Health Data Science and Centre for Environmental Research and
Justice. With applications spanning healthcare, chemical risk
assessment, and radiation biology, she is interested in
multi-contextual representations of biomedical entities and developing
practical methods for discerning actionable insights from data.

Mayla Boguslav: Mayla R. Boguslav seeks to determine what isn't
(yet). She works to uncover our collective scientific questions that
are not yet answered by creating taxonomies and using
ontologies. Focusing on what science has yet to answer helps
researchers locate the role of their ongoing work, clarifies what
scientists are saying and what they are not, and rebuilds trust in
science. Mayla is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics at Colorado
State University. She received the 2023 AMIA Edward H. Shortliffe
Doctoral Dissertation Award for her PhD in Computational Biosciences
from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Submissions
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We invite the submissions of Proceedings papers (9 pages), short papers
(4 pages), flash updates or poster abstracts (1 page). Proceedings
papers should follow the guidelines provided by ISMB
(https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024/submissions/proceedings). Accepted
Proceedings papers related to bio-ontologies will be presented at the
Bio-Ontologies COSI and will be published in the journal
Bioinformatics. All accepted submissions will be presented at the
Bio-Ontologies COSI at ISMB.

All topics related to bio-ontologies are invited. Example topics include
(but are not limited to):
- Ontologies for infectious disease monitoring and prediction
- Ontologies for climate change and its impact on human health
- Ontologies for bioimaging
- 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
- Machine (deep) learning and ontologies
- Explainable AI and semantics
- 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

Submissions can be made on the ISMB site
(https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023). For proceedings, please follow the
instructions provided on the ISMB site. For all other submissions,
please prepare your submission using the Bio-Ontologies templates
(https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2024-meeting#h.nrxvrglj6zwb).

All submissions are reviewed (review criteria 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 the Bio-Ontologies COSI. 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 2024 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.

Important Dates
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Proceedings:
December 4, 2023: Call for proceedings opens
January 25, 2024 (11:59 PM any timezone): Proceedings submission deadline
March 7, 2024: Conditional Acceptance Notification
April 2, 2024: Final Acceptance Notification

Short Papers, Flash Updates, Early Career, and Poster Abstracts:
January 26, 2024: Short Paper and Abstract submissions open
April 19, 2024 (11:59 PM EDT): Short Paper and Abstract Submission Deadline
April 22, 2024: Late Poster Submissions Open
May 13, 2024: Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications
May 20, 2024(11:59 PM EDT): Late Poster Submissions Deadline

If you have any questions please feel free to send us an email
(bioontologies@gmail.com).

Sincerely,

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

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