DRAFT AGENDA

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, March 27, 2008

• 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

• Session 1 - Introduction

• 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 2: Types of Pathways (Moderator: TBD)

Topics: signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, ...; what are the nodes? (molecules, pools of molecules?)

• 1:00pm Lunch Break

• 2:00pm Session 3 - Existing Resources in Pathway Ontology (Moderator: TBD)

Presenters:

Ken Fukuda: INOH Pathway Database

Peter d'Eustachio: Reactome

BioPAX

• 3:15pm Refreshment Break

• 3:30pm Session 4 - Gaps in Pathway Ontology (Moderator: Alan Ruttenberg)

Presenters:

• 5:00pm End of Day 1

Friday, March 28, 2008

• 8:30am Continental Breakfast

• 9:00am Session 3: Types of Networks (Moderator: Richard Scheuermann)

Topics: 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) ...

Presenters?

• 10:45am Refreshment Break

• 11:00am Session 4 - Existing Resources in Network Ontology (Moderator: TBD)

Presenters:

Balaji S. Srinivasan: Current Progress on Network Ontology

• 1pm Lunch Break

• 2:00 Session 5 - Gaps in Network Ontology (Moderator: Yves Lussier)

Presenters:

Yves Lussier: Cellular Networks and their Surroundings: Tissues, the Extracellular Matrix, and Cell-Environment Interactions

• 4:00pm End of Day 2