July 24, 2024, 11 am –2 pm EDT
8 am - 11 PDT, 4 pm - 7 pm BST, 5 pm - 8pm CEST
The CELLS 2024 Workshop will be held as a free virtual event after the main ICBO 2024 conference.
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If you want to attend the rest of ICBO 2024 as well as FOIS 2024, please register via the ICBO/FOIS 2024 registration site.
(i) knowledge representation for newly-discovered and known cell types, particularly in light of single cell RNA sequencing data and other high-throughput data types
(ii) understanding the relationships of cell types to their anatomical contexts
(iii) the use of machine learning approaches for automatically assigning cell type data to ontology classes
(iv) knowledge representation of cell types in disease states
(v) evolutionary and differentiation relationships among cell types
Current high throughput methods such as single cell RNA sequencing and flow and mass cytometry are producing a large amount of data related to existing and novel cell types in health and disease. At the same time, experimental approaches such as microscopy, genomics, and metabolomics are expanding understanding of cellular functioning in relation to neighboring cells and the whole organism. Ontologies are being increasingly used as a tool for integrating and analyzing these diverse data types. The Cell Ontology (CL) and Cell Line Ontology (CLO) have long been established as reference ontologies in the OBO framework for representing cell type and cell line information, and additional ontologies such as the Gene Ontology, Protein Ontology, and the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation are also important for representing not only experimental data about cell types but also the methods used to produce that data. There is a continuing need for improve automated analysis techniques to link data about cells with appropriate ontologies.
The 8th International Cells in Experimental Life Science Workshop, CELLS 2024, will provide a venue for discussions of the application of biomedical ontologies to represent and analyze cell-related knowledge and data. The workshop will also cover the extension of CL for ontological representation of cell types based on new methodologies and experiments. In addition it will cover real-world use cases which may require other ontological adaptations beyond CL and CLO.
(i) abstracts, one page
(ii) extended abstracts (1-3 pages)
Abstracts are one page, references optional. Extended abstracts are formatted as mini-papers, and should include references. Abstracts and papers will be considered equally for presentations.
The paper template for CELLS 2024 is the same used in ICBO 2024, and will be submitted via Microsoft CMT using the CEURART one column template. All submissions will go through peer reviews by at least two reviewers. CELLS 2024 submissions will be published as part of the ICBO 2024 Proceedings in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).
The workshop is planned as a three hour event and will be organized into sections based on the topics of presentations. Presentation time allocation will be determined after the number of each submission type is finalized. A panel discussion will be arranged at the end of the workshop.
CELLS 2024 uses the ICBO 2024 submission form on the Microsoft CMT system.
You will need to create an account on the system if you do not have one already.
Make sure your selected role is "Author," and choose the "Create New Submission" button in the upper left part of the webpage.
Fill in the form with information about your abstract.
Make sure to check the "CELL workshop" button under "Subject Area" and upload your file.
July 3, 2024 –Deadline for submission of abstracts and extended abstracts for CELLS 2024.
July 8, 2024 – Notification of acceptance of abstracts
July 24, 2024 – CELLS 2024 Workshop