From barry.hardy at douglasconnect.com Mon Feb 21 20:39:52 2011 From: barry.hardy at douglasconnect.com (Barry Hardy) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:39:52 +0100 Subject: [OpenTox Ontology] Fwd: Bio-Ontologies SIG at ISMB/ECCB 2011 - Call for PAPERS and POSTERS Message-ID: <4D62BF88.2010806@douglasconnect.com> We should consider a submission on OpenTox-related ontology development at this conference session that Susanna is involved in organising which will take place in Austria in July. Barry -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Bio-Ontologies SIG at ISMB/ECCB 2011 - Call for PAPERS and POSTERS Weitersenden-Datum: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:14:39 +0000 Weitersenden-Von: public-semweb-lifesci at w3.org Datum: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:12:33 +0000 Von: Susanna-Assunta Sansone Organisation: University of Oxford, UK An: OBI Developers , ontogenesis at mail.ontonet.org, mged-ontologies at lists.sourceforge.net, msi-workgroups-ontology at lists.sourceforge.net, psidev-vocab at lists.sourceforge.net, obo-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net, OCInv at googlegroups.com, obo-foundry at lists.sourceforge.net, ontology at ebi.ac.uk, public-semweb-lifesci at w3.org ** <> ** Dear Colleagues, The Bio-Ontologies SIG (www.bio-ontologies.org.uk ) provides a forum for discussion of the latest and most innovative research in the application of ontologies and more generally the organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences. Bio-Ontologies has existed as a SIG at ISMB for 13 years, making it one of the longest running. We invite you to join us on July 15th-16th, 2011 (Fri, Sat) at ISMB/ECCB 2011 in Vienna, Austria. Key dates: Submissions Due: April 22th, 2011 (Fri) Notifications: May 13th, 2011 (Fri) Final Version Due: May 20th, 2011 (Fri) Workshop: July 15th-16th, 2011 (Fri, Sat) Keynote speakers: Andrew Su and Ian Dix Submissions: We are interested in innovative approaches to organizing, presenting 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 Bio-Ontologies, and the use of ontologies in data sharing standards. In addition, we invite submissions on methods, applications and workflows that bridge the gaps in the acquisition, dissemination and consumption of scientific content in biomedical informatics research. For example, the importance and utility of collaborative content acquisition platforms (such as Wikis) is now widely accepted; however success stories about informatics workflows and discoveries that are specifically enabled by the proliferation of bio-wikis are not yet common. Similarly, there is tremendous excitement around sharing and mining of data for both basic as well as clinical research but real life solutions which bridge that divide are still scarce. We are looking for submissions on solutions that demonstrate the use of ontologies for "bridging the gaps" across research areas in the life sciences. We invite submissions on a range of topics including, but not limited to: - Discoveries enabled by Scientific Wikis. - Semantic Web enabled applications (such as for enhanced publishing and for capturing scientific discourse) - Use of Ontologies in Data Standards - Role of Bio-ontologies in Health 2.0 - Collaborative Curation Platforms - Collaborative Ontology Authoring and Peer-Review Mechanisms - Automated ontology learning - Automated Annotation Pipelines - Mapping between ontologies - Research in Ontology Languages and its Effect on Bio-Ontologies - "Flash updates" on Newly Developed or Existing Bio-Ontologies 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 Please submit at: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/submissions 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 indicate a desire to provide a flash update. Unsuccessful paper submissions will automatically be considered for poster presentation; there is no need to submit both on the same topic. Kind regards, the organisers Nigam Shah, Stanford University Larisa Soldatova, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Susanna-Assunta Sansone, EBI Susie Stephens, Johnson & Johnson -- Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD Team Leader Projects:www.isa-tools.org|www.mibbi.org|www.biosharing.org* University of Oxford Tel: +44(0)1865 610622 Oxford e-Research Center Fax: +44(0)1865 610612 7 Keble Road, Oxford skype: susanna-a.sansone OX1 3QG, UK uk.linkedin.com/in/sasansone ~~ *New site launched with catalogues of policies and standards! --