ICBO Conference Logistics

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Conference Questions

If you have questions concerning conference logistics please address them to Barry Smith at <phismith@buffalo.edu> and I will post the responses here.

Please note that each day of the main ICBO conference (July 28-30) begins with a complimentary breakfast. The other meals provided (lunch on all 3 days, day on the first 2 days) include a wide range of choices, including vegetarian options.


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Registration Desk Badges, Programs and Proceedings may be picked up at the Registration desk located near the Ballroom (1st floor) of the Marriott (Conference) Hotel. Registration desk hours are as follows:

  • Tuesday, July 26: 8:00am – 2:00pm
  • Wednesday, July 27: 8:00am – 2:00pm
  • Thursday, July 28: 7:15am – 12:00pm

Special Topic Sessions

A block of 2 hours, from 3.30 to 5.30pm, has been set aside on Day 2 of the ICBO program - Friday July 29th - to allow scheduling of parallel sessions on special topics. Persons wishing to organize special topic sessions at this or other times within the course of the meeting are invited to post announcements here:

  • 1. Day 2 3.30-4.30pm: Working Session on IAO, the Information Artifact Ontology. Convener: Melanie Courtot <mcourtot@gmail.com>. Please check the agenda and register on the IAO wiki
  • 2. Day 2 4.30-5.30pm: Working Session on OGMS, the Ontology for General Medical Science. Convener: Albert Goldfain <agoldfain@blue-highway.com>. Venue

Software Demonstrations

Software demonstrations are scheduled as follows:

Day 1 - July 28

  • 6:00pm Protein-Centric Connection of Biomedical Knowledge: Protein Ontology (PRO) Research and Annotation Tools
  • 6:10pm SHIRAZ and CABERNET: Leveraging Automation, Crowdsourcing, and Ontologies to Improve

the Accuracy and Throughput of Zebrafish Histological Phenotype Annotations

  • 6:20pm Biomedical Ontology Matching Using the AgreementMaker System
  • 6:30pm Bioportal: Ontologies and Integrated Data Resources at the Click of a Mouse
  • 6:40pm Populous: A Tool for Populating an Ontology

Day 2 - July 29

6:00pm The Vitro Integrated Ontology Editor and Semantic Web Application

6:10pm The BioPortal Import Plugin for Protégé

6:20pm The Biomedical Ontology Applications (BOA) Framework

6:30pm The NCBO Annotator: Ontology-Based Annotation as a Web Service

6:40pm OntoFox and its Application in Development of the Brucellosis Ontology