IDO Workshop 2010

Background

A two-day IDO workshop for invited participants will be held on December 8-9, 2010. Venue will be announced shortly. This meeting is being organized as part of the series of Dissemination Workshops organized under the auspices of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO).

The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) is a general terminology, taxonomy, and logical representation of entities relevant to all infectious diseases. IDO is already being applied through disease-specific IDO extensions to the study of seven diseases, including diseases of bacterial, viral, and eukaryotic origin.

Recently, the IDO has been adopted by the virus and bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) established by the NIAID to serve integration of a broad array of -omics, epidemiological and clinical data.

For more information about IDO and its sub-domain extensions, see http://www.infectiousdiseaseontology.org.

Provisional Goals

• Review of the IDO core and of existing IDO extensions
• IDO and the BRCs
• Presentation of applications of IDO in areas such as:

clinical data integration

text and data mining

genetic susceptibility to infectious disease

disease surveillance

• Planning for the introduction of new IDO extensions
• Relations between IDO and other ontologies

Schedule

Day 0: Tuesday, December 7

• 7:00pm - Dinner

Day 1: Wednesday, December 8

• 8:30am - Continental Breakfast

• 9:00am - Session 1

• 11:00am - Refreshment Break

• 11:30am - Session 2

• 12:30pm - Lunch

• 1:30pm - Session 3

• 3:30pm - Refreshment Break

• 4:00pm - Session 4

• 6:00pm - Dinner

Day 2: Wednesday, December 9

• 8:30am - Continental Breakfast

• 9:00am - Session 5

• 11:00am - Refreshment Break

• 11:30am - Session 6

• 12:15pm - Lunch

• 1:45pm - Session 7

• 4:00pm - Close

Format

One person will designated as moderator for each session. All sessions will emphasize group discussion over presentation.

List of Intending Participants

Mauricio B. Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Sivaram Arabandi (Case Western Reserve University)

Lindsay Cowell (Duke University Medical Center)

Alexander Diehl (Gene Ontology / The Jackson Laboratory)

Yongqun "Oliver" He (University of Michigan Medical Center)

Pankaj Jaiswal (Plant Ontology / Oregon State University)

Joanne Luciano (Predictive Medicine, Inc.)

Supriya Mahajan (University at Buffalo)

Chunhong Mao (PATRIC, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)

Anna Maria Masci (Duke University Medical Center)

Bjoern Peters (University of California at San Diego)

Jessica Reynolds (University at Buffalo)

Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons)

Richard Scheuermann (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)

Stanley D. Schwartz (University at Buffalo)

Barry Smith (NCBO / University at Buffalo)

Bruno Sobral (PATRIC, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)

Burke Squires (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)

Christian Stoeckert (Penn Center for Bioinformatics / Univ of PA)

Dan Sullivan (PATRIC, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)

Pantelis Topalis (IMBB-FORTH, Crete)