ICBO 2025 conference

About¶

The International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) is a premier annual conference series that brings together researchers, students and professionals involved in the development and application of ontologies in all areas of biology, medicine, diseases, human health, genome biology, environment, biomes, nutrition, food, plants, agriculture and others. Together, they address issues pertaining to coordinated development of ontological resources, data standards, as well as the optimal use of ontologies in applications.

At the conference participants will present their work on applied aspects of ontologies and demonstrate innovative ontology-driven solutions.

Theme of Conference¶

Biological and Biomedical Ontologies in Action for Health, Science, and Sustainability

Conference Date¶

• Conference Dates:
• Workshops/tutorials: tbd
• Main conference: November 7th to November 9th (11/7/2025-11/9/2025)
• ICBO-EAST (Joint with Semantic Web Ontology Study Group (SWO)): November 1st (11/1/2025)
• 13:0010:00 - 17:30 JST

Setting¶

Virtual Conference

The 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025) will be held virtually over Zoom.

Hybrid participation may be available for the Japan-based SWO session at the ISWC 2025 venue in Nara for ICBO-EAST

Accepted Workshops¶

Accelerating Ontology Curation with Agentic AI and GitHub

Annotating Data with Ontologies: LinkML Can Help

Workshop on the Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine

Workshop for PhD Students & Early Career Researchers

Food, Waste, and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts

14th Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS) 2025 Workshop

The 9th International CELLS Workshop: Cells in Experimental Life Sciences

Previous ICBO Conferences¶

• 2024: Enschede, Netherlands icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2024
• 2023: Brasilia, DF, Brazil www.icbo2023.ncor-brasil.org
• 2022: Ann Arbor, MI, USA icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2022
• 2021: Bolzano, Italy icbo2021.inf.unibz.it (proceedings)
• 2020: Bolzano, Italy icbo2020.inf.unibz.it (proceedings)
• 2019: Buffalo, NY, USA icbo.buffalo.edu (proceedings)
• 2018: Corvallis, OR, USA icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu (proceedings)
• 2017: Newcastle, UK https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icbo17 (proceedings)
• 2016: Corvallis, OR, USA icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu (proceedings)
• 2015: Lisbon, Portugal http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt (proceedings)
• 2014: Houston, TX, USA (proceedings)
• 2013: Montreal, Canada (proceedings)
• 2012: Graz, Austria (proceedings)
• 2011: Buffalo, NY, USA http://icbo.buffalo.edu/2011 (proceedings)
• 2009: Buffalo, NY, USA http://icbo.buffalo.edu/2009 (proceedings)

Proceedings 2025¶

The Proceedings of this conference can be access in: tbd

Contact Information¶

Please direct all further questions to Asiya Yu Lin (ontology.world@gmail.com)