ISMB/ECCB 2023 Bio-Ontologies - Call for Abstracts (Talks and Posters) reminder
Núria Queralt Rosinach
Dear community,
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Call for Abstracts (Talks and Early Posters)
What: ISMB/ECCB 2023 Bio-Ontologies COSI track
When: July 23-27, 2023
Where: Lyon (France)
Website: https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2023-meeting
Bio-Ontologies (http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) will be in its 26th year at ISMB/ECCB 2023 (https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023), which will be held in-person and online between July 23-27, 2023. It will feature two days of exciting keynotes and cutting-edge research with half of one session conducted jointly with the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) COSI.
Submissions
We invite the submissions of short papers (4 pages), flash updates (1 page), poster abstracts (1 page), and Early Career Submissions as lightning talks (1-2 pages). Please prepare your submission using the Bio-Ontologies templates you can download here.
All relevant topics are invited. Example topics include (but not limited to):
Ontologies for infectious disease monitoring and prediction
Ontologies for climate change and its impact on human health
Ontologies for bioimaging
Ontologies in annotations, mapping applications, and metadata standards
FAIR data systems and application of ontologies and other Linked Open Data
Bio-curation platforms, collaborative ontology authoring
Ontology evolution, quality, and evaluation
Ontologies, knowledge representation, and reasoning
Machine (deep) learning and ontologies
Explainable AI and semantics
Text mining and ontologies
Semantic Web-enabled applications
Ontologies for biomedical research, health informatics, and health care
Flash Updates on new and/or existing ontologies, Linked Open Data resources, tools, and applications
Descriptions of DevOps and other types of technical infrastructure and pipelines
Important Dates
Abstracts
Monday, January 24, 2023: Call for Abstracts Opens
Thursday, April 20, 2023 (11:59 PM EDT): Abstract Submission Deadline
Monday, April 24, 2023: Late Poster Submissions Open
Thursday, May 11, 2023: Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications
Thursday, May 18, 2023 (11:59 PM EDT): Late Poster Submissions Deadline
Submissions can be made on the ISMB site (abstract submission site). More details about the submission are available in the Bio-Ontologies website here.
Review Criteria
All submissions are reviewed (review criteria provided on the Bio-Ontologies website). Following review, successful short papers (20 minutes), flash updates (5 minutes), and early career (5 minutes) submissions will be presented at either the Bio-Ontologies COSI, the BOSC COSI, or the joint Bio-Ontologies and BOSC COSI session. The selection of work to a specific COSI session is at the discretion of the Bio-Ontologies and BOSC joint organizing committee. Unsuccessful paper submissions will automatically be considered for flash updates presentations. All submissions will be considered for poster presentations.
Accepted Submissions
Accepted submissions require that one author register for the conference and present the work. The presenter should identify themselves as the corresponding author during the submission process. All accepted submissions will be catalogued in the 2023 Bio-Ontologies Zenodo Community and provided with a citable DOI. Accepted submissions will be invited to publish an extended version of their work in the Bio-Ontologies Thematic Series through the Journal of Biomedical Semantics.
Questions?
If you have any questions please feel free to send us an email (bioont...@gmail.com), direct message us on Slack (bioontologies.slack.com), or post a message on Twitter (@bioontologies) or our LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13998260/).
Sincerely,
The Bio-Ontologies Organizing Committee