DRAFT AGENDA

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, March 27, 2008

• 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

• 10:00am Session 1 - Introductions

Moderator:

• 10:00am Participant Self-Introductions
• 10:15am Barry Smith: Ontology, the OBO Foundry, and the Scope of this Meeting
• 11:00am Refreshment Break
• 11:15am Session 1: The Range of Phenomena We Are Trying to Address (Moderator: TBD)

Topics:

Types of pathways (signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, ...)

Types of networks (regulatory networks, interaction networks, gene expression correlation networks, physiological networks, neurocurrent networks, water balance networks, social networks, co-citation networks ...)

Types of regulation (hormone regulation, organismal regulation, thermal regulation, blood pressure regulation ...)

Granularity (molecular, cellular, physiological) ...

What are the nodes? (molecules, pools of molecules?)

• 1:00pm Lunch Break
• 2:00pm Session 3: Existing Resources in Network and Pathway Ontology (Moderator: TBD)

Ken Fukuda: IMOH

Balaji S. Srinivasan: Current Progress on Network Ontology

Peter d'Eustachio: Reactome

BioPAX

• 3:15pm Refreshment Break

• 3:30pm Session 4: What are the Gaps (Moderator: Alan Ruttenberg)

Possible presenters?

• 5:00pm End of Day 1

Friday, March 28, 2008

• 8:30am Continental Breakfast

• 9:00am Session 3: Networks and Modules (Moderator: Richard Scheuermann)

Possible presenters?

• 10:45am Refreshment Break

• Session 4 - Cellular Networks and their Surroundings: Tissues, the Extracellular Matrix, and Cell-Environment Interactions

(Moderator: Yves Lussier)

Possible presenters?

• 1pm Lunch Break

• 2:00 Session 5 - The Next Steps (Moderator: TBD)

• 4:00pm End of Day 2