What: Call for
participation in the Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012
Where: July 13 - 14, 2012, Long Beach, CA. (Co-located
with ISMB 2012)
When: Submissions Due: April 13th, 2012 (Fri)
URL:
www.bio-ontologies.org.uk
Dear Colleagues,
The Bio-Ontologies SIG provides a forum for discussion of
the latest and innovative research in the application of
ontologies and in the organisation, presentation and
dissemination of knowledge in life sciences. Bio-Ontologies
is one of the longest running SIG. We are interested in
innovative approaches to organizing and consuming knowledge
in life sciences and biomedicine.
We invite papers in traditional areas, such as the
biological applications of ontologies, reports on newly
developed ones, and the use of ontologies in data sharing
standards. In addition, we invite submissions on using
ontologies for translational research as well as data-driven
approaches to evaluate ontologies. See the full list of
subject areas at:
http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/call-for-participation.
We are inviting three types of submissions.
- Short papers, up to 4 pages.
- Poster abstracts, up to 1 page.
- Flash updates, up to 1 page
Following review, successful papers will be presented at
the Bio-Ontologies SIG. Poster abstracts will be provided
poster space and time will be allocated during the 2 days
for at least one poster session. Flash updates are for short
talks (5 min) giving the salient new developments on
existing public ontologies. Authors of posters can also
provide a flash update. Unsuccessful papers will
automatically be considered for poster presentation.
6-8 papers from the SIG are invited to submit an
expanded version to a special issue of the open access
Journal of Biomedical Semantics. The special issue with
papers from 2011 (out at the end of April), will include:
- Beisswanger E. et al .. Towards Valid and Reusable
Reference Alignments - Ten Basic Quality Checks for
Ontology Alignments and Their Application to Three
Different Reference Data Sets
- Ciccarese P. et al .. Open semantic annotation of
scientific publications using DOMEO
- Good B.M. et al .. Linking genes to diseases with a
SNPedia-Gene Wiki mashup
- Jupp S. et al .. Logical Gene Ontology Annotations
(GOAL): Exploring gene ontology annotations with OWL
- LePendu P. et al .. Annotation Analysis for Testing
Drug Safety Signals using Unstructured Clinical Notes
- Tcheremenskaia O. et al .. OpenTox Predictive
Toxicology Framework: toxicological ontology and
semantic media wiki-based OpenToxipedia
- Tsatsaronis G. et al .. A Maximum-Entropy Approach
for Accurate Document Annotation in the Biomedical
Domain
-- SIG Organizers