ICBO-EAST 2025¶
ICBO-EAST 2025 will be held as a satellite meeting of the 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025, November 9-11, 2025) in the East Asian time zone. This event is organized in collaboration with the Special Interest Group of Semantic Web Ontology (SIGSWO) of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and OntoChina, in conjunction with the main ICBO organizing committee.
ICBO-EAST 2025 will be hosted in person in Nara, Japan, at the same venue as The 24th-International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) (November 2-6, 2025), allowing participants to benefit from both communities.
The meeting will feature a two-part one day schedule designed to enhance accessibility and regional engagement:
- Morning sessions (in English) will align with the main ICBO conference's Themes, featuring keynote talks, invited presentations, and selected paper sessions open to a global audience.
- Afternoon parallel sessions (in multiple languages) will provide regionally focused programming and discussions in local languages (e.g., Japanese, Chinese, and Thai), encouraging broader participation from East Asian communities.
ICBO-EAST aims to foster deeper collaboration across global and local biomedical ontology communities by bridging time zones, languages, and scientific perspectives.
Date and Time: Saturday, November 1, 2025, 10:00 AM - 17:30 PM JST (i.e., 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Beijing Time)
Format: Online (Hybrid participation may be available for the Japan-based SWO session at the ISWC 2025 venue in Nara)
Registration Fee: Free
Important Dates¶
Call for Papers - ICBO-EAST Track¶
We invite submissions for approximately eight presentations for the ICBO-EAST track (in English, focused on life science topics).
We welcome papers related to ontology development and application in biomedical and life science domains covered by ICBO.
- Paper Submission Deadline: August 24, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: September 17, 2025
- Submission Site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Track/2/Submission/ If this link does not work for you, try the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Submission/Index
Registration¶
Please register via the main ICBO 2025 conference website.
Keynote Speakers¶
To be announced (TBD)
Tentative Program¶
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM JST (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Beijing Time): ICBO-EAST (in English, focused on life sciences)
- 13:00 PM - 14:00 PM JST (12:00 PM - 13:00 PM Beijing Time): Keynote lecture
- Either one 60-minute talk or two 30-minute talks.
- 14:00 PM - 17:30 PM JST (13:00 PM - 16:30 PM Being Time): Multi-language parallel sessions
- ICBO-EAST in China (in Chinese, OntoChina session)
- SIG SWO in Japan (in Japanese, covering various applied topics)
- Each session will feature around eight 20-minute presentations
Organizers¶
- Hiroshi Masuya (RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Ibaraki, Japan
- Yuki Yamagata (RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Ibaraki, Japan
- Xiaolin Yang (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China)
- Jiang an "Hardy" Xie (Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
- Anuwat Pengput (Sirindhorn College of Public Health Khon Kaen, Khon Kaen, Thailand)
- Yongqun "Oliver" He (University of Michigan, Michigan, US)
- Asiyah Yu Lin (OntoData Research and Solutions, LLC., Maryland, US)
- Takanori Ugai (Fujitsu, Japan)
- Eiichi Sunagawa (Toshiba, Japan)
- Shusaku Egami (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
- Tetsuya Mihara (Tsukuba University, Japan)
- Atsuko Yamaguchi (Tokyo City University, Japan)
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Contact Information¶
Please direct all further questions to Asiya Yu Lin (ontology.world@gmail.com)