Organizing Committee Scienti c Chairs: 0 1 2 Francisco Couto (Lisboa 0 2 Portugal) 0 1 2 Janna Hastings (Cambridge 0 2 Local Chair: 0 1 2 Catia Pesquita (Lisboa 0 2 Portugal) 0 2 Program Chair: 0 1 2 Stefan Schulz (Graz 0 2 Austria) 0 2 Early Career Chair: Pierre Grenon , London , UK Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:

Proceedings and Special Issue Chair: { Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Zurich, Switzerland) Poster and Demonstrations Chair: { Matthew Horridge (Stanford, USA) Sponsorship and Publicity: { Emanuel Santos (Lisboa, Portugal) { Pedro Fernandes (Oeiras, Portugal)

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{ Alan Ruttenberg (University at Bu alo, USA) { Alexander D. Diehl (The Jacobs Neurological Institute, University at

Bu alo, USA) { Amanda Hicks (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA) { Anika Oellrich (Sanger Institute, UK) { Barry Smith (SUNY Bu alo, USA) { Bill Hogan (University of Florida) { Christophe Lambert (Montana State University, USA) { Christopher Baker (UNB Saint John, Canada) { Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) { Cristian Cocos (Mayo Clinic, USA) { Cui Tao (SBMI, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,

USA) { Dagobert Soergel (Department of Library and Information Studies,

University at Bu alo, USA) { Daniel Schober (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany) { Despoina Magka (Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK) { Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) { Fred Freitas (CIn-UFPE, Brazil) { Georgios Gkoutos (University of Cambridge, UK) { Gwen Frishko (Georgia State University, USA) { Harold Solbrig (Mayo Clinic, USA) { Heinrich Herre (Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and

Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) { Helen Parkinson (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) { James Malone (The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) { James J Cimino (National Institutes of Health, USA) { James P. McCusker (5AM Solutions) { Jesualdo Tomas Fernandez-Breis (Departamento de Informatica y

Sistemas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain) { Jim Mccusker (5AM solutions, USA) { Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, Japan) { John Gennari (University of Washington, USA) { Jose Lu s Oliveira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) { Judy Blake (JAX, USA) { Laura Slaughter (Oslo University Hospital, Norway) { Lindsay Cowell (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at

Dallas, USA) { Ludger Jansen (University of Rostock, Germany) { Mario J. Silva (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) { Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA) { Martin Boeker (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany) { Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,

USA) { Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health & Science University) { Michael Schroeder (TU Dresden, Germany) { Michel Dumontier (Stanford University, USA) { Nigam Shah (Stanford University, USA) { Olivier Bodenreider (US National Library of Medicine, USA) { Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA) { Paolo Ciccarese (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General

Hospital, USA) { Pascale Gaudet (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland) { Paul Scho eld (University of Cambridge, UK) { Peter Robinson (Charite Universittsmedizin Berlin, Germany) { Phillip Lord (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK) { Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK) { Samuel Croset (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) { Simon Jupp (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) { Sivaram Arabandi (ONTOPRO, USA) { Suzanne E. Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) { Werner Ceusters (SUNY at Bu alo, USA) { Yongqun He (University of Michigan, USA) { Ahmad Bukhari { Zhe He { Matthew Horridge { Filipe Silva { Dezhao Song