Current Collaborating Communities
The Center is currently collaborating with several outside centers and communities:
- OBO - The OBO Foundry is a collaborative experiment involving developers of science-based ontologies who have established a set of principles for ontology development with the goal of creating a suite of orthogonal interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain.
- NCI - A component of the NIH, NCI conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and their families.
- W3C Health Care Life Sciences Interest Group - HCLSIG is chartered to develop and support the use of Semantic Web technologies and practices to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the of Health Care and Life Science domains.
- BIRN - Among other things, BIRN hosts a collaborative environment rich with tools that permit uniform access to hundreds of researchers seeking to advance diagnosis and treatment of disease, enabling communication and cooperation on multi-institutional investigations.
- Distributed Annotation System (DAS) - DAS defines a communication protocol used to exchange biological annotations. DAS is heavily used in the genome bioinformatics community.
- CTSA informatics community - The CTSA is a consortium that is transforming how clinical and translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide patients with new treatments more quickly and efficiently.