Organizing Committee of ICBO 2019 Ph.DAlexanderDDiehl Ph.DWilliamDDuncan M.D.PeterLElkin M.D.WernerCeusters ArabandiSivaram TX, USAAdrienOntopro Barton SyedAhmadChan WilliamRHogan SimonJupp DarrenANatale JihadSObeid JamesA OvertonKnocean ZoeMayPendlington LynnMSchriml NicoleAVasilevsky RandiVita DanielleWelter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) University at Buffalo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Gloria Sanso University at Buffalo Keynote La Jolla Institute for Immunology Program Committee Barry Smith University at Buffalo Bjoern Université de Sherbrooke
QC Canada
Jonathan P. Bona University of Arkansas
AR USA
Bukhari Yale University
CT USA
Werner Ceusters Unversity at Buffalo
NY USA
University at Buffalo
NY USA
University at Buffalo
NY USA
University at Buffalo
NY USA
Pierre Grenon Horizon Asset
United Kingdom
Yongqun He University of Michigan
MI USA
Amanda Hicks University of Florida
FL USA
University of Florida
FL USA
Mark Jensen CUBRIC
NY USA
European Bioinformatics Institute Jane Lomax SciBite
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Phillip Lord Newcastle University
United Kingdom
Kody Moodley Maastricht University
Netherlands
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
CA USA
Georgetown University
DC USA
Medical University of South Carolina
SC USA
European Bioinformatics Institute Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute for Immunology
CA United Kingdom, USA
Alan Ruttenberg University at Buffalo
NY USA
School of Medicine University of Maryland
MD USA
Barry Smith University at Buffalo
NY USA
Oregon Health & Science University
OR USA
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
CA USA
European Bioinformatics Institute Jie Zheng University of Pennsylvania
PA United Kingdom, USA
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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.
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) The3rd 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 Tutorials associated with ICBO 2019 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 slides4) 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
Acknowledgements

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.

ICBO 2019: 10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology July 30 -August 2, 2019, Buffalo, NY, USA (ICBO 2019 website) The 10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2019), was held at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA. It was the 10-year anniversary of the ICBO series, and the return of the conference to Buffalo after the first two ICBO conferences were held in Buffalo in 2009 and 2011.

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.