Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation at ISMB 2025 --- Call for Contributions

[Robert Hoehndorf]

Dear Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation community,

Call for Submissions: Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI @
ISMB 2025 in Liverpool (UK)

What: Annual Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI Meeting at ISMB
When: July 20-24, 2025
Where: Liverpool, UK
Website: https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2025-meeting and
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home

The Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR) COSI (renamed
from the "Bio-Ontologies" COSI, http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/) is an
International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Community of
Special Interest (COSI) focused on research related to building and
using structured knowledge in bioinformatics. Topics include ontologies,
knowledge graphs, knowledge-enhanced learning, knowledge extraction,
and, in general, any aspect related to the organisation, presentation,
dissemination, and use of knowledge in biology, biomedicine, and the
life sciences. Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)
continues the tradition of the Bio-Ontologies COSI and will be in its
28th year at ISMB 2025 (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2025). ISMB 2025 will
be held in-person and online between July 20-24, 2025 and will feature
two days of exciting keynotes and cutting-edge research. One day will be
conducted jointly with the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC;
https://www.open-bio.org/events/boss-2025/).

Submissions:

We invite the submissions of abstracts (1-2 pages) which will be considered
for oral and poster presentation in the BOKR track at ISMB.

BOKR covers research on any of these topics:

- New knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, and ontologies
- Methods that use knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, and ontologies
- Applications using knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, and ontologies
- Methods to build and improve knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, and
ontologies in bioinformatics, biomedical/life science research, health
informatics, and healthcare

Examples include (but are not limited to):

- Novel knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, and ontologies in bioinformatics
- Ontologies and knowledge graphs in annotations, mapping applications,
and metadata standards
- FAIR data systems and application of ontologies and other linked open
data Bio-curation platforms
- Evaluation of knowledge graphs, ontologies, and knowledge bases
- Ontologies, knowledge representation, and reasoning
- Machine learning/artificial intelligence and knowledge representation
- Neuro-symbolic methods in bioinformatics
- Semantic Web-enabled applications
- Ontologies for biomedical/life science research, health informatics, and healthcare

Submissions can be made on the ISMB site
(https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025) or directly through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismbeccb2025. For Abstract
submissions, we accept short (1 page) abstracts for consideration as
poster presentation, and long (2 page) abstracts for consideration as
oral presentation. All submissions will be reviewed, and based on the
review process, abstracts will be selected for oral or poster
presentation at the Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI.
Submissions considered for the joint BOSC / BOKR Day should specify a
license and URL if applicable, all other submissions may optionally
specify this information.

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.

Important Dates:

Monday, April 17, 2025 (11:59 PM EDT): Abstract Submission Deadline
Monday, April 21, 2025: Late Submissions Open (Poster presentation only)
Thursday, May 15, 2025: Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications
Thursday, May 22, 2025 (11:59 PM EDT): Late Poster Submissions Deadline

If you have any questions please send us an email
(bioontolo...@googlegroups.com).


With best wishes,

Robert, for the
Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI Organizing Committee
https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/