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For more information see </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:#0088CC'><a href="http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt/callworkshops.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#0088CC'>http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt/callworkshops.html</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Submissions are via EasyChair at</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsicbo2015" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0088CC'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsicbo2015</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Each submission should include the title of the event, name, affiliation and e-mail addresses of the proposers. It should include also a description of the proposed event (maximum 200 words), including an explanation of how the workshop/tutorial will contribute to the field of biomedical ontology. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:30.0pt'><span style='font-size:23.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A;font-weight:normal'>ICBO2015 Call for submissions<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>*** Relevant dates ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Workshop and tutorial proposal submission deadline: Feb 10, 2015<br>Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials: Feb 24, 2015 <br>Conference paper submission: Mar 2, 2015 <br>Conference paper notification: Apr 6, 2015<br>Camera-ready conference papers: Apr 20, 2015<br>Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career submission: Apr 13, 2015<br>Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career notification: May 11, 2015<br>Camera-ready workshop papers, software demonstration papers/abstracts and early career abstracts: May 25, 2015<br>Demos and Poster abstract submissions: May 18, 2015<br>Demos and Poster abstract notifications: June 8th, 2015<br>Camera-ready poster abstracts: June 15th, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>*** Topics ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Ontologies are knowledge representation tools widely used in the semantic description of biological and medical data from creation to publication and consumption for research and software applications including expert systems. To be maximally effective for a wide range of diverse purposes, such ontologies must be of good quality and work well together. Therefore, issues like good ontology design, ontology coordination, methods for harnessing ontologies for research and applications, and ontology maintenance need to be addressed. The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) series is designed to meet this need. ICBO 2015, the sixth event in the highly successful series, will bring together representatives of all major communities involved in ontology use and development in biomedical research, health care, and related areas. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>*** Call for Papers ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>ICBO 2015 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of the application of ontologies to biomedical problems, ontology design and ontology interoperability, at any stage in the process from data creation to use in applications or scientific analyses. Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches to ontology building and use. In addition, we would like to invite contributions showcasing methods for ontology-based research, including statistical methods, and contributions addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple ontologies at the same time, including ontology development, visualization, annotation of data, analysis, and applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>We will accept full-length research and application papers (5 pages), poster submissions (2 page abstracts), software demonstrations (2 page abstracts), and early career researcher symposium submissions (2 page abstracts). A selection of successful poster abstracts will be invited to give flash presentations during the conference. We are also looking for submissions of half-day or full-day workshops and tutorials. Workshops should be working sessions with a specific outcome that can be subsequently presented at the main conference. Tutorials are educational events and may involve hands-on practicals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Submission of papers is via EasyChair (</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:#0088CC'><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015</a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>), according to the templates provided on the conference web site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>A Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, Best Demonstration Award, and a Best Early Career Paper Award will be conferred to the author(s) at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in an issue of CEUR-WS (</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:#0088CC'><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/">http://ceur-ws.org/</a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>). In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), an open-access journal published by BioMed Central (BMC). Note that publication in the JBMS special issue will incur article processing charges. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>*** Contact ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>For more information please email <a href="mailto:icbo2015@googlegroups.com">icbo2015@googlegroups.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>*** Organizing Committee ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#5A5A5A'>Scientific Chairs: Francisco Couto (Lisboa, Portugal) and Janna Hastings (Cambridge, UK)<br>Local Chair: Catia Pesquita (Lisboa, Portugal)<br>Program Chair: Stefan Schulz (Graz, Austria)<br>Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) and João Ferreira (Lisboa, Portugal)<br>Proceedings and Special Issue Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Zurich, Switzerland)<br>Early Career Chair: Pierre Grenon (London, UK)<br>Poster and Demonstrations Chair: Matthew Horridge (Stanford, USA)<br>Sponsorship and Publicity: Emanuel Santos (Lisboa, Portugal) and Pedro Fernandes (Oeiras, Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Janna Hastings <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Email: <a href="mailto:hastings@ebi.ac.uk">hastings@ebi.ac.uk</a> | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Twitter: @jannahastings | ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-4923">0000-0002-3469-4923</a> | Web: <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings">www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Visit ChEBI at <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi">www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>