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                        Call for Papers and Posters

                           Biomedical Ontologies

               at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2003
                             January 3-7, 2003
                   Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club
							

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Ontologies provide a conceptualization of a domain that can be shared among
diverse groups of researchers and health care professionals and used
computationally for multiple purposes. Biologic knowledge is evolving so
rapidly that it is difficult for most scientists to assimilate and
integrate the new information with their existing knowledge. Promoting the
creation and use of ontologies for the field and linking to other
ontologies in related domains holds the promise of assisting those working
in biomedical disciplines and thus making more rapid scientific progress.

Biological knowledge is evolving from structural genomics towards
functional genomics and will revolutionize the way healthcare is provided.
The tremendous amount of DNA and protein sequence information now available
provides the foundation for studying the proteome, the transcriptome, and
next the metabolome (interacting networks of proteins and substrates). In
contrast to biomedical terminologies which promote a standard way of naming
concepts involved in biological processes, ontologies provide an
organizational framework of the concepts in a system of hierarchical and
associative relations that allows reasoning about biomedical knowledge.

This session would welcome papers that discuss:

* Biomedical ontology creation and use
* Reasoning about the biomedical domain based on ontological knowledge
* Use of ontologies to support natural language processing (NLP) and
  knowledge discovery
* Intelligent agent technologies and associated ontologies
* Scalability and versioning of biomedical ontologies
* Linking and aligning multiple ontologies
* Use of ontologies to bridge heterogeneous information resources (e.g., to
  connect genotype to gene expression and ultimately to clinical medicine,
  drug discoveries, etc.)
* Advances in ontology languages and related technologies as applied to
  bioinformatics and biomedical problems
* Other research associated with bioinformatics and biomedical ontologies
							

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                           Session co-chairs 

* Olivier Bodenreider (contact person)
  National Library of Medicine
  ol...@nl...

* Joyce A. Mitchell
  National Library of Medicine and University of Missouri, Columbia
  mit...@nl...

* Alexa T. McCray
  National Library of Medicine
  mc...@nl...
							

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                           Submission information

Papers and Posters

The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length
papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a
hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented
orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their
research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page
abstract by November 1, 2002, and present their work in the poster
sessions.

Important dates

* Paper submissions due: July 15, 2002 
* Notification of paper acceptance: August 19, 2002 
* Final paper deadline: September 23, 2002 
* Abstract deadline: November 1, 2002 
* Meeting: January 3-7, 2003 

Paper format

All papers must be submitted to rus...@st... in electronic
format. The file formats we accept are: Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft
Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name
of the first author (e.g. altman.pdf or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions
or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. 

Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter.
The cover letter must state the following:
* The email address of the corresponding author 
* The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract 
* The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not
  currently under consideration elsewhere.
* All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. 

Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication
format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at:
http://www.smi.stanford.edu/projects/helix/psb-online/psb-submit/.
If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then
it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total
manuscript length would be within the page limit.

Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is
$500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready
submission.

Contact Russ Altman (rus...@st...) for additional information
about paper submission requirements.