<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="font-size: medium; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'">_____________________________________________________</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><font face="'Myriad Pro'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font size="3">This message is posted to several lists. </font></span><span style="font-size: medium; ">Apologies for cross-posting.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Please forward it to everyone who might be interested.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><b><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">ICBO 2013 Call for Participation</font></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><b><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2013 (ICBO2013) </font></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">July 7th - 9th 2013</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/cfp.html" target="_blank"><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/cfp.html</font></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font color="#d32117" face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Conference (long & short) paper submission deadline extended to Feb 15, 2013.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">The conference aim is to foster discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas Biomedical Ontology. Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering are invited to share their knowledge and experience. The event is part of the Semantic Trilogy 2013 featuring:</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"> <i>* International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2013)</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"> * Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013)</font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"> * Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2013) </font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">web site: <a href="http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/semantic-trilogy-2013/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); ">http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/semantic-trilogy-2013/</span></a></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Topics</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Ontologies for biomedical research and clinical applications</font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Reports on ontologies for, and their application in high throughput <i>omics</i> data and systems biology, toxicology and environmental health, disorders, diseases, phenotypes and physiology, genetic variation and pharmacogenomics, translational research and personalized medicine, public health and electronic health care are invited..</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Foundations and methodology</font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Papers on foundational and methodological issues pertaining to biomedical ontology are invited. Eligible topics are, though not limited to, the following; knowledge representation and reasoning, philosophical foundations of ontology, upper-level ontologies, topics in ontology engineering including design and life cycle, methodologies for knowledge elicitation and capture, ontology-oriented text mining techniques, ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment of ontologies, and ontology evaluation.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Biomedical ontologies and the Semantic Web</font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Research on formal representation of biomedical knowledge using RDF and OWL, identifiers, mappings & normalization, biomedical research using linked data, integration strategies using the linked open data cloud, visualization and manipulation of ontology, federation of online resources, workflows and semantic web services for biomedical knowledge discovery.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><i><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Social aspects of biomedical ontologies</font></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Perspectives from biomedical ontologists on community standards, adoption, and proliferation of semantics, use of semantic wikis, bio-curation & crowdsourcing techniques, user engagement and feedback, semantic publishing and provenance, governance, evolution and sustainability.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">Submissions</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "> <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2013" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); ">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2013</span></a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">All accepted submissions will be published as part of the Conference Proceedings. Papers are to be prepared using templates (available on website) and submitted via EasyChair. </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">1. Long Research Paper (up to 6 pages) should satisfy the following criteria: original research; novelty in methodology and/or in research results; significant development with large potential for impact; theoretical soundness and/or strong evaluation with demonstration of utility in applications.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">2. Short Research Paper (up to 4 pages) should satisfy the following criteria: original research; methodological soundness with either novel methodology & application, or demonstrated improvement over existing methods (with appropriate validation), or the use of existing methodology but in novel application. Short papers are appropriate for applied research or systems, or the development of new approaches.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">3. Systems Paper (up to 2 pages) must describe the functionality, availability, and an application of the system. The system itself <i>must </i>be demonstrated at the conference.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">4. Early Career Track (up to 4 pages) is to support the work of young investigators.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">There will be an Early Career Track session for the presentation of the papers. The ECT paper review and acceptance criteria are the same as the short research papers. The staggered submission dates allows submissions (from young investigators) that are not accepted as long or short research papers to be revised and re-submitted; as well as allow first time submissions from young investigators to the Early Career Track directly.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">5. Late Breaking Report (1 page) This track is for extended abstracts of posters. A limited set of the peer-reviewed reports will be selected to be presented as a flash talk. All reports must be presented as posters. Late breaking reports should address a clearly defined problem that is of interest to the ICBO community. A late breaking report is appropriate for interesting preliminary results; and systems updates.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">6. Highlights (up to 500 words) This track highlights original peer-reviewed research with significant impact on data integration research or life sciences research that is published between May 1, 2012 and May 1, 2013. The submission is a short abstract highlighting the importance of the work for the ICBO community. If the publication is not open access, then the authors must make the paper available to the review committee.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">7. Workshops</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Workshops are half-day or full-day scientific events intended to provide a forum for the discussion of a specific topic through individual paper presentations. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events focusing on a specific topic; they can also include interest group meetings, or meetings designed to disseminate the results of a research project on a specific topic.</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">8. Tutorials</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">Tutorials are educational events. They may be either for a full day or for a half day. They should focus on one specific topic presented by one or two experts and involve interaction with the audience. Tutorials can include hands-on training, in which case the proposal should specify the exact requirements (laptops, software to install, etc.).</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">Relevant dates</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "> <a href="http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/dates.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(49, 0, 176); ">http://www.unbsj..ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/dates.html</span></a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 15px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3"><strike>18 January 2013: <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>Workshop and tutorial proposal submission deadline</strike></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Gill Sans'; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font face="'Myriad Pro'" size="3">1 February 2013: <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorial proposals</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Trish Whetzel, PhD</div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Outreach Coordinator</div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">The National Center for Biomedical Ontology</div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Ph: 650-721-2378</div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><a href="http://www.bioontology.org">http://www.bioontology.org</a></div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">"Like" NCBO on Facebook: <a href="http://on.fb.me/bioontology">http://on.fb.me/bioontology</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Follow NCBO on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/bioontology">http://twitter.com/#!/bioontology</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Join in Discussions on LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkd.in/ncbo-group">http://linkd.in/ncbo-group</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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