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SpecialSession: Semantic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Biomedicine

Semantic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Biomedicine

Tim KacprowskiTim Kacprowski
Emetis NiazmandEmetis Niazmand

Knowledge graphs and semantic technologies provide powerful frameworks for representing, integrating, and reasoning over complex biomedical information. Unlike unstructured data or simple tabular formats, knowledge graphs explicitly capture entities such as diseases, drugs, genes, proteins and patients, as well as their multifaceted relationships, in a structured, semantically rich format. This enables sophisticated reasoning, inference, and knowledge discovery that goes beyond statistical pattern recognition. This special session focuses on the development and application of knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies in biomedicine. From constructing comprehensive drug-disease-gene networks to building patient-specific knowledge representations from electronic health records, these approaches enable the integration of heterogeneous data sources while preserving semantic meaning and supporting explainable reasoning. Temporal knowledge graphs capture the dynamic nature of disease progression and treatment responses, while knowledge graph embeddings enable predictive tasks such as drug repurposing and biomarker discovery. We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in biomedical knowledge representation and semantic data integration, while enabling interpretable reasoning, knowledge discovery, and intelligent decision support across biomedical research and clinical practice.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Biomedical and clinical knowledge graph construction and curationKnowledge graph embeddings and representation learning for drug discovery and precision medicineOntologies, vocabularies, and standards for healthcare and life sciencesSemantic integration and interoperability of heterogeneous biomedical dataKnowledge graphs for disease modelling and clinical pathwaysReasoning, inference, and rule-based methods over biomedical knowledge graphsTemporal, longitudinal, and evolving knowledge graphs in healthcareLinking omics data, clinical data, and external biomedical knowledge sourcesProvenance, uncertainty, and trust in biomedical knowledge representationKnowledge graph-based decision support and explainable systemsFAIR data principles, linked data, and Semantic Web infrastructures for biomedicine

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