 | GOW 2018: Gene Ontology Workshop 2018 UQAM - Pavillon President-Kennedy (PK) - 201 Avenue du Président-Kennedy Montréal, Canada, October 16, 2018 |
| Conference website | https://goo.gl/QRoCZV |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gow2018 |
| Submission deadline | October 5, 2018 |
The Gene Ontology (GO) is one of the most widely used bioinformatics resource in the world. Because of the staggering complexity of biological systems and the ever-increasing size of datasets to analyze, biomedical research is becoming increasingly dependent on knowledge stored in computable form. The GO project provides the most comprehensive resource currently available for computable knowledge regarding the functions of genes and gene products.
The GO Consortium develops an up-to-date, comprehensive, computational model of biological systems, from the molecular level to larger pathways, cellular and organism-level systems. GO defines an ontology is composed of classes (or concepts) that can be used to describe gene function, and relationships between these concepts. The highly structure of GO makes it ideally amenable to computational analysis.
The Gene Ontology workshop 2018 aims to bring together students and researchers who use GO in any aspect of their work, want to expand the knowledge on GO, want to acquire hands-on experience with the GO resource, as well as encourage exchanges on problems and solutions, and foster collaborations.
We are inviting interested participants to submit abstracts on GO related projects. Abstracts will be presented as posters during the workshop poster session.
Submission Guidelines
All abstracts must be written in English, and should not exceed 300 words.
Submission deadline: September 28th October 5th
Abstracts must be submitted as PDF files.
Topics of interests
Projects using GO directly or indirectly, including:
- Data analysis
- Data display
- Text mining
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge discovery
- Entity recognition
- Data curation
- ...
Committees
Organizing committee
Chairs: Laurent-Philippe Albou & Pascale Gaudet
Local Chairs: Hayda Almeida & Marie-Jean Meurs
Scientific Committee
- Judith Blake
- Michael Cherry
- Susanna Lewis
- Chris Mungall
- Paul Sternberg
- Paul Thomas
Venue
The conference will be held at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Room PK-1140
Pavillon President-Kennedy (PK)
201 Avenue du Président-Kennedy
Montréal, QC
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to gomeetingmtl2018@gmail.com