[MOBY-l] Fifth Annual Bio-Ontologies Workshop

[Robert Stevens]

Fifth Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting

A Semantic Web of Bioinformatics Resources

8 August 2002, Edmonton, Canada

We would like to invite you to the fifth Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting 
(Bio-Ontologies 2002), on August 8th in Edmonton,
Canada. This is immediately after the ISMB-02 August 3-7 in Edmonton. 
registration is available via http://www.ismb02/org.

This is usually a lively meeting; so submit abstracts and register as soon 
as possible. We usually have a large crowd (10% of ISMB attendees in the 
last two years), so come along to hear the latest developments in the 
exciting world of bio-ontologies.

The meeting details may be found via 
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr/meeting02/ and any queries can be 
directed to robert.stevens at cs.man.ac.uk.

Topics that will be discussed at the meeting will include, but not be 
limited to:

*      Presentation of ontologies for describing the content of 
bioinformatics resources accessible on the Web;
*     Presentation of ontologies for describing bioinformatics services 
available on the Web;
*     Exploitation of ontologically mark-up data and services;
*     Applications that use bio-ontologies to support the work of biologists;
*     Improving the collaboration between biologists developing ontology 
content and computer scientists who can provide
      ontology infra-structure;
*     Ontologies produced by members from various genomics and life-science 
efforts.

Please submit two page abstracts (approximately 1000 words) to 
robert.stevens at cs.man.ac.uk by the end of June 2002. These abstracts will be
reviewed by a small programme committee. There will be three kinds of talk 
at the day-long meeting:

    1.A key-note address ;
    2.A selection of 25 minute long-talks;
    3.A selection of 10 minute short-talks.
Dr. Robert Stevens
Bioinformatics lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Kilburn building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

+44 (0)161 275 6251
robert.stevens at cs.man.ac.uk
http://img.cs.man.ac.uk