Bio-Ontologies 2011

We are interested in innovative approaches to organising, presenting 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 Bio-Ontologies, and the use of ontologies in data sharing standards. In addition, we invite submissions on methods, applications and workflows that "bridge the gaps" in the acquisition, dissemination and consumption of scientific content in biomedical informatics research.

For example, the importance and utility of collaborative content acquisition platforms (such as Wikis) is now widely accepted; however success stories about informatics workflows and discoveries that are specifically enabled by the proliferation of bio-wikis are not yet common. Similarly, there is tremendous excitement around sharing and mining of data for both basic as well as clinical research but real life solutions which bridge that divide are still scarce. We are looking for submissions on solutions that demonstrate the use of ontologies for "bridging the gaps" across research areas in the life sciences.

We invite submissions on a range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Discoveries enabled by Scientific Wikis.
• Semantic Web enabled applications (such as for enhanced publishing and for capturing scientific discourse)
• Use of Ontologies in Data Standards (e.g. Pistoia Alliance)
• Role of Bio-ontologies in Health 2.0
• Collaborative Curation Platforms
• Collaborative Ontology Authoring and Peer-Review Mechanisms
• Automated ontology learning
• Automated Annotation Pipelines
• Mapping between ontologies
• Research in Ontology Languages and its Effect on Bio-Ontologies
• "Flash updates" on Newly Developed or Existing Bio-Ontologies

Arguably too great an emphasis on biomedical applications for ViBRANT, but the tools and techniques should be transferable.