Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2019)
Abstract
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.