** Submissions Due: April 13th, 2012 (Fri) ** 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. We invite submissions on a range of topics including, but not limited to: - Discoveries enabled by Scientific Wikis - Semantic Web Enabled Applications - Hypothesis Testing Platforms - Use of Ontologies in Data Standards - Role of Bio-Ontologies in Health 2.0 - Bio-Curation Platforms - Collaborative Ontology Authoring and Peer-Review Mechanisms - Automated Ontology Learning - Automated Annotation Pipelines - Ontology Generation From Natural Language - Mapping Between Ontologies - Research in Ontology Evaluation - "Flash updates" on Newly Developed or Existing Bio-Ontologies 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. |