DRAFT AGENDA

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Day 1 late afternoon - introduction to ontologies (Smith) Day 2 first session - state-of-the-art in pathway ontologies (TBD) - Fukuda, Sander, Srinivasan Day 2 second session - approach for extending current pathway ontologies into an OBO Foundry framework (TBD)

• 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

• 9:30am Participant Self-Introductions

• Session 1 - Biology of Pathways and Networks and Associated Data Resources (Moderator: TBD)

Potential presenters: Sealfon, Gough, Sander, Fiona Brinkman, d'Eustachio, Fukuda, Srinivasan

Potential topics:

signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, ...

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) ...

• 10:00am
• 11:00am Refreshment Break
• 11:15am

• 12:30pm Lunch Break

• 1:30pm Session 2 - Computational Analysis of Pathway and Network Data (Moderator: Ruttenberg)

Potential presenters: Ma'ayan, Rzhetsky, Scheuermann, Splendiani

• 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 - NETWORK DAY

• 8:30am Continental Breakfast

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

Topics:

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