VDOS-2022: 11th Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, United States, September 25-28, 2022 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/vdosworkshop/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vdos2022 |
Drugs and vaccines have contributed to dramatic improvements in public health worldwide. Over the last decades, there have been efforts in the biomedical ontology community that represents various areas associated with drugs including vaccines that extend existing health and clinical terminology systems (e.g., SNOMED, RxNorm, NDF- RT, and MedDRA), vernacular medical terminologies, and their applications to research and clinical data.
This workshop will provide a platform for discussing innovative solutions as well as the challenges in the development and application of biomedical ontologies to representing and analyzing drugs and vaccines, their administration, immune responses induced, adverse events, and similar topics. The workshop will cover two main areas: (i) ontology representation of vaccines, drugs, and vaccine/drug-related domains (e.g., adverse events), and (ii) applications of the ontologies in real-world situations – administration, adverse events, etc. Examples of biomedical subject matter in the scope of this workshop: drug components (e.g., drug active ingredients, vaccine antigens, and adjuvants), administration details (e.g., dosage, administration route, and frequency), gene immune responses and pathways, drug-drug or drug-food interactions, and adverse events. Both research and clinical subjects will be covered. We will also focus on computational methods used to study these, for example, literature mining of vaccine/drug-gene interaction networks, pathway analysis, meta-analysis of host immune responses, and time event analysis of the pharmacological effects.
We encourage submissions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drugs and vaccines are critical to fighting against COVID-19. We welcome papers in the domain of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- full research papers (6-8 pages)
- work in progress / late-breaking results (2-3 pages)
- a statement of interest (one page) for podium presentation.
The paper format will be the same as the format used in ICBO. Contributions must be delivered non-anonymously and as a single PDF file. They must be formatted using the IOS Press template (one-column format, available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX) according to the guidelines for book authors. The same template is required for submissions to FOIS as well as to ICBO and other workshops held in the context of BOSK. This year all the papers will be submitted and handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vdos2022
We will automatically send the accepted papers to the main ICBO conference organizers so that the abstract can be included in the proceedings. The presenters of the accepted papers are also expected to give a poster presentation at the main conference. After the full papers are accepted, we will work with the BMC Bioinformatics editors and reviewers to decide which papers will be formally invited for an extension to be included in a thematic series in the BMC Bioinformatics journal. All full-length (6-8 pages) and short-length (2-3 pages) submissions will go through peer reviews by at least two reviewers. The one-page statement-of-interest submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: TBD
- Notification of acceptance: TBD
- Last abstract submission: TBD
- Acceptance of abstract: TBD
- Workshop: TBD
- Submission to journal: TBD
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Cui Tao, PhD [School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston] cui.tao@uth.tmc.edu
- Yongqun “Oliver” He, DVM, PhD [Department of Microbiology and Immunology Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics University of Michigan Medical School] yongqunh@med.umich.edu
- Junguk Hur, PhD [Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences] junguk.hur@med.und.edu
Program committee
- Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic
- Jie Zheng, University of Pennsylvania
- Richard Boyce, University of Pittsburgh
- Asiyah Yu Lin, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Yuji Zhang, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Venue
The 2022 International Conference of Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2022) will be held in 2022 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.