Preface




   These proceedings contain the papers of the       (University of Colorado, USA), Dina Demner-
Seventh International Symposium on Semantic          Fushman (National Library of Medicine, USA),
Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM) held at the Hasso       Alberto Diaz (Universidad Complutense de
Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam (Germany) on     Madrid, Spain), Laura Furlong (Hospital del Mar
the 4th and 5th of August, 2016. SMBM aims to        Medical Research Institute, Spain), Lars Juhl
bring together researchers from text and data min-   Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),
ing in biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoin-       Antonio Jimeno Yepes (IBM Research, Australia),
formatics, and researchers from biomedical ontol-    Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science,
ogy design and engineering. SMBM 2016 was            Japan), Roman Klinger (University of Stuttgart,
the follow-up event to SMBM 2014 (University         Germany), Martin Krallinger (Spanish National
of Aveiro), SMBM 2012 (University of Zürich),       Cancer Research Centre - CNIO, Spain), Mari-
SMBM 2010 (EBI UK), SMBM 2008 (University            ana Neves (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany),
of Turku), SMBM 2006 (University of Jena), and       Markus Kreuzthaler (Medical University Graz,
SMBM 2005 (EBI UK).                                  Austria), Anastasia Krithara (NCSR Demokritos,
   We selected five long papers, six short papers    Greece), Ulf Leser (Humboldt-Universität zu
and two demo papers from a total of 15 submis-       Berlin, Germany), Paloma Martinez (University
sions. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at       Carlos III of Madrid, Spain), Sérgio Matos
least two members of an international programme      (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Marie-Jean
committee. In addition to the selected papers,       Meurs (University of Quebec, Canada), Milena
the symposium features two keynote speeches by       Kraus (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany), Cindy
Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser and Dr. Laura Furlong. We        Perscheid (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany),
would like to thank the keynote speakers, the pro-   Sampo Pyysalo (University of Cambridge, UK),
gram committee, the paper authors, and the partic-   Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland),
ipants, for without these people there would be no   Patrick Ruch (University of Applied Sciences,
symposium.                                           Geneva, Switzerland), Stefan Schulz (Medical
                                                     University Graz, Austria), Isabel Segura-Bedmar
Scientific chairs                                    (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain), Johannes
Mariana Neves (Hasso Plattner Institute), Fabio      Starlinger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ger-
Rinaldi (University of Zurich), Goran Nenadic        many), Philippe Thomas (DFKI, Germany),
(University of Manchester) and Dietrich Rebholz-     Özlem Uzuner (State University of New York,
Schuhmann (Insight Center for Data Analytics).       Albany, USA) and Karin Verspoor (University of
                                                     Melbourne, Australia).
Local organization committee
                                                     Acknowledgments
Mariana Neves and Milena Kraus (Hasso Plattner
                                                     We acknowledge financial support from the HPI.
Institute).

Program committee                                    August, 2016

We acknowledge the efforts of the programme          Mariana Neves, Fabio Rinaldi, Goran Nenadic,
committee, namely Kevin Bretonnel Cohen              Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann