Conference Overview

As biomedical data continue to grow in scale and complexity, ontology has become a central tool for knowledge organization and semantic analysis. From semantic networks and ontology learning to reasoning and knowledge enhancement by large language models (LLMs), ontology provides a solid foundation for data standardization, interoperability, and reuse, while enabling intelligent analysis and automated reasoning.

The ICBO-EAST 2025 China meeting focuses on interdisciplinary innovations at the intersection of computational methods and ontology, including semantic technologies, knowledge graph reasoning, cross-modal semantic integration, and ontology construction assisted by LLMs. It aims to promote collaboration and innovation in biomedical modeling, semantic data analysis, and intelligent reasoning.

ICBO-EAST 2025 China will serve as the East Asian satellite meeting of the 16th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025, Nov 9–11, 2025) and will be held online in parallel with the in-person session in Nara, Japan, on November 1, 2025. The meeting is co-organized by the Special Interest Group on Semantic Web Ontology (SIGSWO) of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and the OntoChina committee, in collaboration with the ICBO organizing committee. It aims to foster communication and collaboration among global and regional biomedical ontology communities across languages and time zones.