<div dir="ltr"><br><span style><span style="font-size:23.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90);font-weight:normal">ICBO2015 Call for
submissions</span></span>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">***
Relevant dates ***</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">***
Topics ***</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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. </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">***
Call for Papers ***</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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. </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">Submission
of papers is via EasyChair (</span></span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015"><span style>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015</span><span style></span></a><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">),
according to the templates provided on the conference web site.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">All
accepted papers and abstracts will be published in an issue of CEUR-WS (</span></span><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/"><span style>http://ceur-ws.org/</span><span style></span></a><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">).
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. </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">***
Contact ***</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">For
more information please email </span></span><a href="mailto:icbo2015@googlegroups.com"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">icbo2015@googlegroups.com</span></span><span style></span></a><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)"></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">***
Organizing Committee ***</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(90,90,90)">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)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style>Janna Hastings </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style> Email: </span></span><a href="mailto:hastings@ebi.ac.uk"><span style><span style>hastings@ebi.ac.uk</span></span><span style></span></a><span style><span style> | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44
(0)1223 494468</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style> Twitter:
@jannahastings | ORCID: </span></span><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-4923"><span style><span style>0000-0002-3469-4923</span></span><span style></span></a><span style><span style> | Web: </span></span><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/%7Ehastings"><span style><span style>www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings</span></span><span style></span></a><span style><span style></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style>Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism,
European Bioinformatics Institute</span></span></p>
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