[Obo-discuss] ICBO 2025 Call For Papers

[Trish W. <plw...@gm...>]

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
   <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Submission/Index>*

More information can be found here
<https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2025/call/>
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
   <https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/articles/collections/icboseries>
   - *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)

*Organizer Team Members
<https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2025/co-organizers/> *


*Contact Information*

Please direct all further questions to Asiya Yu Lin (
ont...@gm...)


Sincerely yours,

Trish Whetzel on behalf of the ICBO 2025 organizer team
<https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2025/co-organizers/>