Workshop Agenda
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- Background and motivation
- Brief overview of major biological problems BIRN seeks to address
- Discuss current capabilities and challenges related to ontologies in BIRN
- Tools
- Tutorial on Protégé and some of its more advanced features (examples from other ontology projects)
- Expressing biological concepts in terms of an ontology
- --Example scenarios from current cBiO Core 3 projects (sequence data annotation, PaTO)
- --Possible future directions (formal relation ontologies and composed annotations)
- --Image annotation with ontologies
- Content
- Look at ontologies used by BIRN in depth (send out BIRN ontologies for us to review in advance)
- Best practices; lessons learned from other ontology development projects (Barry Smith)
- Potential Applications: what do we need to get there from here?
- Integrate multi-scale, multi-modality (images, molecular, functional) data for discovery
- Computer reasoning with neuroanatomical/spatial component of Neuroscience data