Call for papers: VDOS-2024: The 13th International Workshop on Vaccines and Drug Ontology Studies
He, Oliver
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 13th International Workshop on Vaccines and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2024)
https://vdos-workshop.github.io/vdos2024/
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Virtual meeting
Half-day workshop in conjunction with the
The 15th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2024, https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2024/)
co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS).
(July 17 - 19, 2024; University Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024
Workshop Theme and Topics
The 13th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies will be held along with the 15th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2024). This year, we extend our focus to encompass artificial intelligence (AI)'s transformative role in drug and vaccine ontology research. The workshop aims to explore innovative solutions and challenges in representing and analyzing drugs and vaccines, covering administration, immune responses, adverse events, and more. Key topics include the ontological representation of drugs and vaccines, real-world application challenges, drug components, administration, immune responses, drug interactions, and adverse events in clinical and research settings. A special emphasis will be placed on how AI can revolutionize ontology studies, enhancing literature mining, meta-analysis, and complex data interpretation. Despite progress, challenges remain in fully representing and utilizing ontologies for research and clinical issues, such as detailed representation of administration and adverse events, drug interactions, and analysis of immune responses. The workshop will bring together experts from clinical, research, and pharma-biotech sectors to discuss solutions to these challenges, aiming to foster advancements in drug development, administration, and the integration of AI in ontological research. Our goal is to contribute to public health improvement by enhancing the understanding and application of drug and vaccine ontologies.
Note: The online meeting registration is free.
Submission Guidelines
- Paper submission: May 31, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2024
- Last abstract submission: June 14, 2024
- Acceptance of abstract: June 28, 2024
- Workshop: July 22, 2024 (Tentative time: 9 AM – noon EDT)
- Submission to journal: JBMS (continuous, https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/vdos2023)
- Alternatively, Submission to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vdos2024
We suggest that you submit your papers to JBMS if you think your paper meets the journal paper quality. Please follow the JBMS paper submission instruction, and remember to select the JBMS VDOS collection link (Note: sorry that it is labeled as vdos2023, but it can still be used for vdos2024 submission). Noted that there is no guarantee that the journal submission will be reviewed in-time with feedback. If the journal submission is not reviewed in a timely manner, the authors may be suggested to submit an abstract to EasyChair so that they may still present in the workshop.
If your paper is more preliminary but is suitable for the conference presentation, we suggest you submit your paper to our EasyChair. For the EasyChair submissions, all selected full-length papers and short papers will be invited to submit a full revised version to the journal of biomedical semantics (JBMS) VDOS Special Issue. The conference paper format for EasyChair submission will be the same as the format used in ICBO. Contributions must be delivered non-anonymously and as a single PDF file, following the template: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2024/papers/CEUR-Template-1col.docx, single column. There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
All full-length (6-8 pages) and short-length (2-3 pages) conference paper or JBMS journal paper (no page limitation) submissions will go through peer reviews by at least two reviewers. The one-page statement-of-interest submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers.
We will send the accepted papers to the main ICBO conference organizers so that the abstracts can be included in the proceedings. The presenters of the accepted papers are also expected to give a poster presentation at the main conference.
Organizers
- Cui Tao, PhD [Mayo Clinic; Tao...@mayo.edu]
- Yongqun “Oliver” He, DVM, PhD [Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School; yong...@med.umich.edu]
- Junguk Hur, PhD [Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences; jungu...@med.und.edu]
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He, Oliver
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The 15th International Workshop on Vaccines and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2026)
https://vdos-workshop.github.io/vdos2026/
In association with ICBO 2026, July 15-17, 2026, in Washington D.C.
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Hybrid meeting
The 15th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies will be held along with the 17th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2026), co-located with ISMB 2026 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
This year, we continue and extend our focus on artificial intelligence's transformative role in drug and vaccine ontology research, with a special emphasis on semantic awareness in the age of generative AI. The workshop explores innovative solutions and challenges in representing and analyzing drugs and vaccines, covering administration, immune responses, adverse events, and more. Key topics include the ontological representation of drugs and vaccines, real-world application challenges, drug components, administration, immune responses, drug interactions, and adverse events in clinical and research settings. A special emphasis will be placed on how AI and large language models can revolutionize ontology studies, enhancing literature mining, meta-analysis, and complex data interpretation. Despite progress, challenges remain in fully representing and utilizing ontologies for research and clinical issues, such as detailed representation of administration and adverse events, drug interactions, and analysis of immune responses. The workshop will bring together experts from clinical, research, and pharma-biotech sectors to discuss solutions to these challenges, aiming to foster advancements in drug development, administration, and the integration of AI in ontological research. Our goal is to contribute to public health improvement by enhancing the understanding and application of drug and vaccine ontologies.
Venue
VDOS 2026 will be held in person at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., co-located with ICBO 2026 and ISMB 2026.
Virtual participation options may also be available.
Conference Dates
Journal Paper submission:
May 15, 2026 (extended from May 1)
EasyChair (full, short, & abstract) submission: June 1, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2026
Workshop Time: TBD (July 2026, on or around July 15-17; Half-day)
Registration: Registration will follow ICBO 2026’s instruction:
https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2026/registration/ .
Submission to journal: JBMS (continuous; https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/vdosseries)
Alternatively, submission to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vdos2026
We suggest that you submit your papers directly to JBMS if you think your paper meets the journal paper quality. Please follow the JBMS paper submission instructions, and remember to select the JBMS VDOS collection link (Note: the collection is labeled as vdosseries, but it can still be used for vdos2026 submission). Please note that there is no guarantee that the journal submission will be reviewed before the workshop. If the journal submission is not reviewed in a timely manner, the authors may be asked to submit an abstract to EasyChair so that they may still be able to present the paper in the workshop.
If your paper is more preliminary but is suitable for the conference presentation, we suggest you submit it to our EasyChair. For the EasyChair submissions, all selected full-length papers and short papers will be invited to submit a full revised version to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS) VDOS Special Issue. The conference paper format for EasyChair submission will be the same as the format used in ICBO. Contributions must be delivered non-anonymously and as a single PDF file, following the CEUR-ART template.docx file, single column. There is also an Overleaf Template available here.
Submission Format
For the EasyChair paper submission, we will allow
three submission formats:
• full research papers (6-8 pages) format
• work in progress / late-breaking results (2-3 pages), and
• a statement of interest (one page) for podium presentation.
All full-length (6-8 pages) and short-length (2-3 pages) submissions will go through peer reviews by at least two reviewers. The workshop organizers will review the one-page statement-of-interest submissions.
Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS) journal VDOS Collection
As mentioned above, all accepted full-length and selected short papers will be invited to submit a fully revised version to the JBMS VDOS Collection. Alternatively, authors may submit their full-length papers directly to the JBMS VDOS collection at any time (continuous; https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/vdosseries). The JBMS Editorial Office conducts an initial quality check on all submitted manuscripts. The VDOS organizers will then handle the review process and may invite some authors to present at the upcoming VDOS workshop, even if their manuscripts are not accepted for publication. It should be noted that there is no guarantee that submissions to the journal will be reviewed and feedback will be received before the workshop. Submissions made directly to JBMS should adhere to the JBMS guidelines. Please note that JBMS does not impose strict limits on the length and page count of manuscripts.
Organizers
- Cui Tao, PhD [Mayo Clinic; Tao...@mayo.edu]
- Yongqun “Oliver” He, DVM, PhD [Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School; yong...@med.umich.edu]
- Junguk Hur, PhD [Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences; jungu...@med.und.edu]