Workshop of Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS 2014)

Workshop of Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS 2014)

           Oct 7-8, 2014      Freiburg i.Br., Germany


Goals of the Workshop
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Medicine, biology and life sciences produce hardly manageable and
comprehensible amounts of data, information, and knowledge. Their
computer-based processing, integration, as well as their conceptual
foundation and application presents ever new challenges to existing
methods of knowledge representation, data bases, and data analysis.
In the life sciences, enormous data sets are being produced in
connection with biological and medical experiments, aiming to unravel
biological interconnections for a better understanding in order to
offer patients the best possible therapies. Data management and data
processing in the life sciences ranges from the best possible
integration and usage of distributed, heterogeneous data to the best
possible obfuscation of medical data.

This integrated workshop covers the overall spectrum of biomedical
information processing, from experimental data acquisition and data
management, across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data,
up to the development of structures of knowledge in the form of
ontologies with their various applications. The workshop pursues the
aim to gather scientists that work in these fields in order to exchange
ideas, to discuss new results and to inspire collaborations. The work-
shop has an interdisciplinary character. It fosters the collaboration
between ontologists, computer scientists, bio-informaticians, medical
information scientists, applied logicians, as well as the cooperation
with physicians, bio-chemists, and biometricians.

Organization
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Martin Boeker,  University of Freiburg  (general & local chair)
Ludger Jansen,  University of Muenster               (PC chair)
Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig         (speaker of OBML)
Frank Loebe,    University of Leipzig

ODLS 2014 is associated with the group Ontologies in Medicine and
Life Sciences (OBML) [3] within the German Informatics Society (GI),
and it is a Supported Event of the International Association for
Ontology and Its Applications (IAOA) [4].


Location and Local Organization
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ODLS 2014 will take place in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany,
hosted by the

 Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics   [5]
 Medical Center - University of Freiburg


Program Committee
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Patryk Burek,      University of Leipzig
George Gkoutos,    Aberystwyth University, UK
Heinrich Herre,    University of Leipzig
Robert Hoehndorf,  University of Cambridge, UK
Toralf Kirsten,    University of Leipzig
Oliver Kutz,       Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Wolfgang Müller,   HITS gGmbH, Heidelberg
Axel Ngonga-Ngomo, University of Leipzig
Anika Oellrich,    European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Robinson,    Charité Berlin
Daniel Schober,    Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle
Falk Schreiber,    Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant
                  Research (IPK), Gatersleben
Stefan Schulz,     Medical University of Graz, Austria
Aleksandra Sojic,  Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation
                  (ITIA-CNR), Milan, Italy
Dagmar Waltemath,  University of Rostock

(further members TBA, inquiries pending, see [1] for updates)


Links
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[1] Workshop website

   http://tinyurl.com/odls-2014

   https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2014-ODLS

[2] Journal of Biomedical Semantics website

   http://www.jbiomedsem.com/

[3] OBML group website

   https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML

[4] IAOA website

   http://iaoa.org/

[5] Local Organization website

   http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/imbi