[Mged-ontologies] Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012 -- final call for papers, posters and flash updates

[Susanna-Assunta S. <sa....@gm...>]

*What*: Call for participation in the Bio-Ontologies SIG 2012
*Where*: July 13 - 14, 2012, Long Beach, CA. (Co-located with ISMB 2012)
*When*: Submissions Due: April 13th, 2012 (Fri)
*URL*: www.bio-ontologies.org.uk <http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk>

Dear Colleagues,

The Bio-Ontologies SIG provides a forum for discussion of the latest and 
innovative research in the application of ontologies and in the 
organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in life 
sciences. Bio-Ontologies is one of the longest running SIG.  We are 
interested in innovative approaches to organizing 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 ones, and the use 
of ontologies in data sharing standards. In addition, we invite 
submissions on using ontologies for translational research as well as 
data-driven approaches to evaluate ontologies. See the full list of 
subject areas at: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/call-for-participation.

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

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 provide a flash update. Unsuccessful papers will automatically be 
considered for poster presentation.

6-8 papers from the SIG are invited to submit an expanded version to a 
special issue of the open access Journal of Biomedical Semantics. The 
special issue with papers from 2011 (out at the end of April), will include:

   1. Beisswanger E. et al .. Towards Valid and Reusable Reference
      Alignments - Ten Basic Quality Checks for Ontology Alignments and
      Their Application to Three Different Reference Data Sets
   2. Ciccarese P. et al .. Open semantic annotation of scientific
      publications using DOMEO
   3. Good B.M. et al .. Linking genes to diseases with a SNPedia-Gene
      Wiki mashup
   4. Jupp S. et al .. Logical Gene Ontology Annotations (GOAL):
      Exploring gene ontology annotations with OWL
   5. LePendu P. et al .. Annotation Analysis for Testing Drug Safety
      Signals using Unstructured Clinical Notes
   6. Tcheremenskaia O. et al .. OpenTox Predictive Toxicology
      Framework: toxicological ontology and semantic media wiki-based
      OpenToxipedia
   7. Tsatsaronis G. et al .. A Maximum-Entropy Approach for Accurate
      Document Annotation in the Biomedical Domain

-- SIG Organizers
http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/organizers

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