ICBO 2025 Call For Papers
Asiyah Yu Lin
Dear colleagues,
This is the first call for submissions for the 16th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025), to be held on November 7-9, 2025 as a fully virtual open conference.
Theme of Conference
Biological and Biomedical Ontologies in Action for Health, Science, and Sustainability
Important Dates
- Conference Dates:
- Workshops/tutorials: TBD
- Main conference: November 7th to November 9th (11/7/2025-11/9/2025)
- ICBO-EAST Satellite: November 1st (11/1/2025)
- Submission Dates:
- Workshops and Tutorial Proposal submission deadline: June 30th (6/30/2025) July 7th (7/7/2025)
- acceptance: July 15th (7/15/2025)
- Direct-to-Journal Track submission deadline: July 31st (7/31/2025)
- acceptance: October 1st (10/1/2025)
- Main Conference submission deadline: August 17th (8/17/2025)
- acceptance: September 15th (9/15/2025)
- East Satellite submission deadline: August 24th (8/24/2025)
- acceptance: September 17th (9/17/2025)
Call for ICBO Conference Papers
Submission deadline: August 17th, 2025. Notification: September 15th, 2025
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full length papers: 8-12 pages (Including references).
- Short papers: up to 7 pages (Including references).
- For each paper accepted, at least one author must register.
- Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Track/2/Submission/Create If this link does not work for you, try the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Submission/Index
More information can be found here
Call for Direct-to-Journal Track Papers
Direct-to-journal track submission deadline: July 31st, 2025. Notification: October 1st, 2025
- In collaboration with the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS)
- Papers submitted to the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies track at the Journal of Biomedical Semantics will be published immediately after acceptance and presented in the annual conference following acceptance.
- More information can be found here
- Submission link: https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/articles/collections/icboseries
Setting
The 16th International Conference of Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025) will be held virtually over Zoom.
Topics of Interest
We are interested in all topics related to ontologies and knowledge representation in biomedicine, biology, and life sciences. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Methodologies and Tools
Novel biomedical ontologies and extensions of existing ontologies, as well as graph databases, knowledge graphs
Ontology Engineering: Methodologies, techniques and practices, composition, modularity, evaluation, and validation
Ontology standards, design patterns, mapping and alignment
Ontology tools: visualization, building, reasoning, evaluation, knowledge discovery
Ontology governance, sustainability, and FAIR data principles
Applications of bio-ontologies in data management and biocuration, data integration and interoperability, machine learning, artificial intelligence, decision support systems
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ontologies, text mining, specifically LLM and its applications in ontology development
Semantic Web and SemWeb technology: Modeling and Information retrieval ontology-based, Linked open data (LOD) applications
- Scientific Domains
Health Informatics and the role of ontologies
Public and population health and global health
Mental health and wellness
Traditional medicine (e.g. Chinese medicine), integrative, and alternative medicine
Genetics, biochemistry, phenotypes, and diseases
Oral and dental health
Plant, veterinary, and agricultural applications
Food and Nutrition related
Environmental related
Human physical activity, kinesiology, and human performance
Industrial applications of ontology (e.g. pharmaceutical and food industries)
Bioethics and legal health
(all biomedicine, biological, and life sciences related domains are welcome)
Advisory Board
Bjoern Peters (La Jolla Institute)
Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, NCOR)
Co-Chairs
Asiyah Yu Lin (OntoData Research and Solutions, LLC.)
Mattew Lange (IC-FOODS.org)
Contact Information
Please direct all further questions to Asiya Yu Lin (ontolog...@gmail.com)
Sincerely yours,
Asiyah Lin on behalf of the ICBO 2025 organizer team