ICBO 2019 was well attended, with 115 registered attendees and additional walk-ins from the local academic community. The program included excellent keynote talks by Barry Smith, “International Standard Ontology,” and Bjoern Peters, “Putting principles into practice: OBO ontologies and applications in immunology,” as well as 23 oral presentations, 26 posters, and one software presentation. There were 53 papers and abstracts submitted for peer-review to ICBO 2019. Each submission was reviewed by three members chosen from the Program Committee. Of these submissions, 43 were accepted for this volume: 19 full papers, 23 poster abstracts, and 1 software demonstration extended abstract. We thank our program committee for their thoughtful reviews. There were also three workshops and four tutorials (listed below) held in conjunction with the main ICBO 2019 meeting.
Sivaram Arabandi Adrien Barton Jonathan P. Bona Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari Werner Ceusters Alexander D. Diehl William D. Duncan Peter L. Elkin Pierre Grenon Yongqun He Amanda Hicks William R. Hogan Mark Jensen Simon Jupp Jane Lomax Phillip Lord Kody Moodley Christopher J. Mungall Darren A. Natale Jihad S. Obeid James A. Overton Zoe May Pendlington Bjoern Peters Alan Ruttenberg Lynn M. Schriml Barry Smith Nicole A. Vasilevsky Randi Vita Danielle Welter Jie Zheng (all affiliations as of 2019) OntoPro, TX, USA Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada University of Arkansas, AR, USA Yale University, CT, USA Unversity at Buffalo, NY, USA University at Buffalo, NY, USA University at Buffalo, NY, USA University at Buffalo, NY, USA Horizon Asset, United Kingdom University of Michigan, MI, USA University of Florida, FL, USA University of Florida, FL, USA CUBRIC, NY, USA European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom SciBite, United Kingdom Newcastle University, United Kingdom Maastricht University, Netherlands Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA Georgetown University, DC, USA Medical University of South Carolina, SC, USA Knocean, Inc., ON, Canada European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA University at Buffalo, NY, USA University of Maryland School of Medicine, MD, USA University at Buffalo, NY, USA Oregon Health & Science University, OR, USA La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
The organizers would like to thank the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo for support and organizational help, especially Winanne Conway, Cheryl Kennedy, and Gloria Reed. We thank the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dean Michael Cain for their support and use of the School for hosting ICBO 2019. We also thank Lauren Haskins of University Event at the University at Buffalo for administering registration for ICBO 2019. We thank the University at Buffalo for its support of ICBO 2019 and research in ontology in general. Workshops associated with ICBO 2019 1) 8th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2019) Organizers: Junguk Hur, University of North Dakata; Oliver He, University of Michigan; Cui Tao, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Workshop Page 2) The 3rd international Cells in ExperimentaL Life Science Workshop (CELLS-2019) Organizers: Oliver He, University of Michigan; Alexander Diehl, University at Buffalo; Sirarat Sarntivijai, ELIXIR Hub, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Workshop Page 3) First International Workshop on Biomedical Ontologies & Natural Language Processing Organizers: Jonathan P. Bona, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Peter L. Elkin, University at Buffalo; Daniel R. Schlegel, SUNY Oswego Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Workshop Page
1) An Introduction to Referent Tracking Organizers: Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo; William Hogan, University of Florida Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Description 2) Basic Formal Ontology and Its Applications in Biomedicine Organizers: Barry Smith and Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Description Slides 3) A How-To Guide to Create, Manage, and Release an OBO Ontology Organizers: Nicole Vasilevsky, OHSU; James Overton, Knocean Inc.; Chris Mungall, LBNL; Rebecca Jackson, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology & University of Maryland Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Description Materials including links to slides 4) Tutorial: Machine learning with ontologies Organizer: Robert Hoehndorf, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Description
Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D., for the organizers