Tutorial

April 24, 2012

Faculty: Barry Smith (Buffalo / NCBO) and Nigam Shah (Stanford / NCBO)

Foundations of Biomedical Ontology

What is an ontology and what is it useful for?

The problem of data silos

NIH mandates for sharing and reuse of research data

Examples of biomedical ontologies:

• Gene Ontology (GO)
• Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA)
• Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO)

Ontology Technology

An Introduction to the Semantic Web and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Introduction to NCBO Technology

• Use of Bioportal

Using ontologies for data retrieval, integration and reasoning

Success stories

Basic information on ontology editing tools

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