Some 200 participants enjoyed 3 days of biomedical ontology at the first ICBO conference, preceded by 4 days of classes and tutorials on topics ranging from spatial ontology and qualitative reasoning to the metaphysical foundations of biomedical ethics. The meeting itself included 38 presentations, 43 posters, 6 software demonstrations, 2 panels, and 1 plenary lecture (by Howard Garner, on the use of high-powered text-mining software applied to PubMed for drug discovery).
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The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is an international consortium of researchers in informatics, computer science and biomedicine committed to improving human health and biomedical research. We support the development of technology and infrastructure to accelerate biomedical discovery, and strive to provide tools to improve the management and analysis of biomedical data and knowledge.
