Workshop on Ontology of Diseases
General Information
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology will host a two-day workshop focused on the ontology of diseases on November 6-7, 2006 in Baltimore, MD.
The goals of the workshop are to promote sound, principles-based ontology construction and to raise the level of cooperation between people who work in this and related fields.
Participation
PLEASE NOTE THAT PARTICIPATION IN THIS MEETING IS RESTRICTED.
If you wish to be considered for participation, please send a brief statement of your expertise to Fabian Neuhaus.
Preliminary Agenda
Monday November 6
Morning
- Introduction
- Session I: Disease Ontologies - Where We Are (Moderator: Rex Chisholm)
- Rex Chisholm: OBO Disease Ontology
- Winston Hide or Oliver Hofmann: eVOC Ontologies
- Kent Spackman: SNOMED CT
Afternoon
- Session II: What is a Disease? (Moderator: Barry Smith)
Tuesday November 7
Morning
- Session III: Problems of Disease Ontologies (Moderator: Werner Ceusters)
Afternoon
- Session IV: The Next Steps: Moderated Discussion (Moderatrix: Suzanna Lewis)
- Informal Strategy Session
(The workshop will start on Monday November 6 at 9 am and will end on Tuesday November 7 at 6 pm.)
Participants
Carol Bean -– National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A
Olivier Bodenreider -– National Library of Medicine, U.S.A
Mathias Brochhausen -– IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
Werner Ceusters -– ECOR, Saarland University, Germany
Rex Chisholm -– Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, U.S.A
Christopher Chute -– NCBO, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, U.S.A
Elaine Collier -– National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A
Lindsay Cowell -– Immunology, Duke University, U.S.A.
Louis Goldberg -– Oral Biology, University at Buffalo, U.S.A
Kristel Hackett -– MGH Laboratory of Computer Science, U.S.A
Frank Hartel -– National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A
Winston Hide -– National Bioinformatics Institute, University Western Cape, South Africa
Oliver Hofmann -– National Bioinformatics Institute, University Western Cape, South Africa
Ingvar Johansson -– IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
Anand Kumar -– IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
Dirk Lanzerath -– German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, Germany
Suzanna Lewis -– NCBO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A
Onard Mejino -– Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington, U.S.A
Chris Mungall -– NCBO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A
Fabian Neuhaus -– NCBO, University at Buffalo, U.S.A
Richard Scheuermann -– Pathology, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, U.S.A
Stefan Schulz -– Medical Informatics, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany
Kent Speckman -– Medical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University, U.S.A
Nigam Shah -– NCBO, Stanford Medical Informatics, U.S.A
Barry Smith -– NCBO, University at Buffalo, U.S.A
Lynn Schriml -– The Institute for Genomic Research, USA
Owen White -– The Institute for Genomic Research, USA
Neil Williams -– Philosophy, University at Buffalo, U.S.A
Gao Yong -– Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A
Venue
Inn at the Colonnade 4 West University Parkway Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Telephone: +1 410 235 5400 Fax: +1 410 235 5572
The Inn at the Colonnade is located across from Johns Hopkins University less than four miles from Baltimore's CBD and historic Inner Harbor, and only 20 minutes from BWI International Airport.
A block of rooms have been reserved for those Workshop participants and attendees wishing to stay at the Inn at the Colonnade. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-222-TREE. When making reservations, workshop participants and attendees are asked to identify themselves as being a member of the NCBO group. All reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival by charging to a major credit card. Workshop participants and attendees are encouraged to make room reservations no later than 10/15/06. After 10/15/06, the Inn at the Colonnade may offer unused rooms held in the NCBO block to other customers. Reservations requested by Workshop participants and attendees after 10/15/06 will be accepted by the Inn at the Colonnade based upon availability and prevailing rates.
Links and Literature
The workshop is associated with FOIS 2006 and KRMed 2006.
Amarnath Gupta et alia: Towards a formalization of disease-specific ontologies for neuroinformatics.
Cornelius Rosse, Anand Kumar, Jose LV Mejino Jr, Daniel L Cook, Landon T Detwilern and Barry Smith, “A Strategy for Improving and Integrating Biomedical Ontologies”
Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Anand Kumar and Cornelius Rosse, “On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities”, Comparative and Functional Genomics
Some papers on SNOMED.