CfP: 3rd Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML 2011)

[Frank Loebe]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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OBML 2011 - Conference on Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences

Berlin, Germany -- October 6-7, 2011
Co-located with INFORMATIK 2011

Website:
https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Conferences/2011en

Submission of short papers (2-4 pages) due: June 30, 2011


Goals of the Conference
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The series "Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences" (OBML conference)
was initiated by the workgroup for OBML of the German Society for Computer
Science in 2009. The OBML aims to bring together scientists who are working
in this area to exchange ideas and discuss new results, to start
collaborations and to initiate new projects. The OBML conference is held
once annually and deals with all fundamental aspects of biomedical
ontologies as well as additional "hot" topics.

Submissions are requested especially for the following topics:

* Ontologies and terminologies in biology, medicine, and clinical research;
* Ontologies for knowledge representation, methods of reasoning,
  integration and interoperability of ontologies;
* Methods and tools for the construction and management of ontologies; and 
* Applications of the Semantic Web in biomedicine and the life sciences.

The focus of the OBML-2011 is "Phenotype ontologies in medicine and
biomedical research".


Important Dates
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Submission of papers              June 30, 2011
Notification of review results    July 30, 2011
Deadline for revised versions     September 10, 2011
Conference                        October 6-7, 2011


Submissions
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All papers will be printed in a proceedings volume (with ISBN or ISSN) that
will be distributed during the congress. A selection of these papers will be
published in the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics.

Submissions to the conference should comprise 2-4 pages and must be written
in English.


Keynote Lectures
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* Peter Robinson, Charite Berlin
  "Phenotype Ontologies" (tentative title)

* NN



Committees
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Organization
* Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig (Coordinator)
* Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge
* Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig

Local Organization
* Peter Robinson, Charite Berlin

Program Committee
* Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge (Coordinator)
* Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig
* Patryk Burek, University of Leipzig
* Fred Freitas, University of Mannheim
* Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig
* Josef Ingenerf, University of Luebeck
* Ludger Jansen, University of Rostock
* Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
* Toralf Kirsten, University of Leipzig
* Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig
* Axel Ngonga-Ngomo, University of Leipzig
* Roberto Poli, University of Trento
* Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge
* Peter Robinson, Charite Berlin
* Michael Schroeder, Dresden Technical University
* Stefan Schulz, Medical University Graz
* Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA
... (further requests pending)


For further information, please see the conference and the group websites:

https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Conferences/2011en
(English)

https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Conferences/2011 
(German)

https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML
(German)