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Preface
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.
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.
Organizing Committee of ICBO 2019
Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D. University at Buffalo
William D. Duncan, Ph.D. University at Buffalo (now at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Peter L. Elkin, M.D. University at Buffalo
Werner Ceusters, M.D. University at Buffalo
Marge Elkin
ICBO Series Founder and Advisor to Organizing Committee
Barry Smith, Ph.D. University at Buffalo
ICBO 2019 Proceedings Editors
Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D. University at Buffalo
William D. Duncan, Ph.D. University at Buffalo (now at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Gloria Sanso University at Buffalo
Keynote Speakers
Barry Smith University at Buffalo
Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Copyright © 2021 for this paper by its author. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Program Committee (all affiliations as of 2019)
Sivaram Arabandi OntoPro, TX, USA
Adrien Barton Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Jonathan P. Bona University of Arkansas, AR, USA
Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari Yale University, CT, USA
Werner Ceusters Unversity at Buffalo, NY, USA
Alexander D. Diehl University at Buffalo, NY, USA
William D. Duncan University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Peter L. Elkin 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
William R. Hogan University of Florida, FL, USA
Mark Jensen CUBRIC, NY, USA
Simon Jupp European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Jane Lomax SciBite, United Kingdom
Phillip Lord Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Kody Moodley Maastricht University, Netherlands
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA
Darren A. Natale Georgetown University, DC, USA
Jihad S. Obeid Medical University of South Carolina, SC, USA
James A. Overton Knocean, Inc., ON, Canada
Zoe May Pendlington European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA
Alan Ruttenberg University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Lynn M. Schriml University of Maryland School of Medicine, MD, USA
Barry Smith University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Nicole A. Vasilevsky Oregon Health & Science University, OR, USA
Randi Vita La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA
Danielle Welter European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Jie Zheng University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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.
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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
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 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
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