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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology PDF Print E-mail
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 which brings together representatives of all major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine and related areas. ICBO is designed to meet this need.

Papers 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 (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

Deadline: Papers for presentation at ICBO must be submitted before March 1, 2009. Guidelines for submission will be published at http://icbo.buffalo.edu. To register your interest in attending, please write to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For further information, please visit:
http://icbo.buffalo.edu

 
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