Webinar Series

NCBO Webinar Series presentations occur via the Web and teleconference at 10:00 am PT on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month. This series aims to showcase new projects, technologies and ideas in biomedical ontology.

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02/15/2012	Formalization of models and simulation results in systems biology Michel Dumontier, Carleton University
03/21/2012	Nicolas Le Novère, EBI TBA
04/04/2012	Daniel Rubin, Stanford University TBA
05/02/2012	Vaccine Ontology (VO) and its application in literature mining of vaccine-gene interaction networks Oliver He, University of Michigan
05/16/2012	Yehoshua Perl, New Jersey Institute of Technology TBA

Past Webinar Series Talks 

02/01/2012	Applying ontologies to biomedical data; views, rules and annotation tools Simon Jupp, James Malone and Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute
12/07/2011	UMLS Concepts and Terms in Clinical Notes: Large-scale Corpus Analysis Stephen Wu
11/02/2011	Informatics and Standards for Nanomedicine Technology Nathan Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and David Paik, Stanford University
10/19/2011	Making Sense of Unstructured Data in Medicine Using Ontologies Nigam Shah, Stanford University
10/05/2011	Automated extraction of domain-specific clinical ontologies Chimezie Ogbuji, Case Western Research University School of Medicine
09/21/2011	Using ontologies for hypothesis generation and their application to basic research in aging Sean Mooney, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging
09/07/2011	Sage Bionetworks Synapse Project Mike Kellen, Sage Bionetworks
06/15/2011	Linking science and semantics with the Annotation Ontology and the SWAN Annotation Tool Paolo Ciccarese, Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
06/01/2011	Biomedical Annotation by Humans and computers in a Keyword-driven world Simon Twigger, Medical College of Wisconsin
05/18/2011	Abstraction networks to support comprehension and auditing for terminologies Yehoshua Perl, New Jersey Institute of Technology
05/04/2011	Semantic cross-domain integration: The intersection of research, public, and clinical data; creating applicable knowledge for decision support in patient-centric healthcare Erich Gombocz
04/20/2011	The ECGrid Toolkit and the use of data annotation in studies of cardiac hypertrophy and sub-clinical detection of heart disease Rai Winslow, The Johns Hopkins University
04/06/2011	Using ontologies in integrative tools for protozoan parasite research Chris Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania
03/16/2011	Social Computing for Scientists: Building collaborative e-Laboratories Carole Goble, University of Manchester
02/16/2011	Ontology-based annotation of neurodegenerative disease phenotypes using the Neuroscience Information Framework Maryann Martone, UCSD
02/02/2011	RxNav: Browser and Application Programming Interfaces for Drug Information Sources Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine
12/01/2010	Making Easy Things Easy and Lowering the Barrier to Entry in caBIG with Semantic Web Technologies David Hau, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology
11/17/2010	Bringing reason to phenotype diversity, character change, and common descent Hilmar Lapp, Duke University
11/03/2010	Architecting an OWL based Enterprise Conformance and Compliance Registry at the National Cancer Institute Cecil Lynch, UC Davis
10/20/2010	The Neighborhood Auditing Tool for the UMLS and its Source Terminologies James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology
10/06/2010	The Gene Wiki: Cultivating and mining community intelligence in biology Andrew Su and Ben Good, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
09/15/2010	Collaborative Patterns in Large-Scale Ontology Development Projects Sean Falconer, Stanford University
09/01/2010	The Protein Ontology (PRO) and its web resources Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware
07/07/2010	Updates on the NCBO Driving Biomedical Project “Ontology-Based Annotation of Biomedical Time-Series Data” Rai Winslow and Stephen Granite, Johns Hopkins University
06/16/2010	The Role of Ontologies in Improved Scholarly Communication Philip E. Bourne, UCSD
05/12/2010	Indexing Nano Medicine Resources with caOBR Nathan Baker, Washington University and David Paik, Stanford University
04/21/2010	CDISC SHARE – Pathway into the Future for Standards Development & Delivery Bron Kisler, CDISC
04/07/2010	Developing an Application Ontology for the Sleep Domain Sivaram Arabandi, Case Western Reserve University
03/03/2010	Progress on the ODIE Toolkit Rebecca Crowley, MD, MSIS
02/17/2010	Ontology visualization as a service Peggy Storey, University of Victoria
02/03/2010	Modeling gene expression sample variables with an application ontology James Malone, European Bioinformatics Institute
01/20/2010	Semantics and Services Enabled Problem Solving Environment for Trypanosoma cruzi Amit Sheth, Satya Sahoo, Priti Parikh Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
12/02/2009	UMLS-SKOS: A Semantic Web Framework for Representation of Biomedical Terminological Knowledge using Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Parsa Mirhaji, The University of Texas
11/04/2009	The use of ontologies within the Neuroscience Information Framework, a neuroscience-centered portal for searching and accessing diverse resources Maryann Martone, University of California San Diego
10/21/2009	Accelerating Candidate Gene Discovery through Ontological Indexing of Large Scale Data Repositories Simon Twigger, Medical College of Wisconsin
10/07/2009	An Ontology-Based Approach for Computational Phenomics: Application to Autism Spectrum Disorder Amar Das, Stanford University
09/16/2009	Representing the Immune Epitope Database in OWL Bjoern Peters - La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
09/02/2009	Progress Report: Ontology-based Annotation of Biomedical Time–series Data Raimond Winslow and Stephen Granite - The Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
08/05/2009	Practical use with major implications: Applied Semantic Knowledgebase (ASK™) for Predictive Biology Erich Gombocz - IO Informatics
07/15/2009	Prototyping a Biomedical Ontology Recommender Service Clement Jonquet - National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Stanford University
06/17/2009	3R Systems: Implications for knowledge representation and reasoning Larry Hunter - University of Colorado Denver
06/10/2009	Web 2.0 + Web 3.0 = Web 5.0: SADI & CardioSHARE: A New Perspective on Semantic Web Services Mark Wilkinson - iCAPTURE Center
06/03/2009	Using Ontologies for Visualizing Design Heterogeneity in Human Studies Ida Sim - University of California, San Francisco
05/20/2009	caOBR: A tool for indexing cancer informatics resources within the NCBO Resource Index Nathan Baker - Washington University in St. Louis
04/15/2009	Ontology Views, An Update Jim Brinkley - Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington
04/01/2009	Precise Biochemical Knowledge Starting with Structure-Based Criteria for Molecular Identity Michel Dumontier - Carleton University
03/18/2009	WikiNeuron: Semantic Wiki of Collective Minds in Neuroscience Kei Cheung - Yale Center for Medical Informatics
02/18/2009	Introducing ODIE 0.5 Rebecca Crowley - University of Pittsburgh
02/04/2009	Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) Lindsay Cowell - Duke University Medical Center
01/21/2009	Exploring and Navigating Ontologies through BioPortal Margaret-Ann Storey - University of Victoria
12/10/2008	The Neuroscience Information Framework Maryann Martone - University of California, San Diego
10/22/2008	LexGrid - Philosophy, Model and Interfaces: LexGrid Intro and LexBIG/EVS services Chris Chute, Tom Johnson, Harold Solbrig - Mayo Clinic
10/08/2008	Ontology-Based Annotation of Biomedical Time Series Data Raimond Winslow - Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling, Johns Hopkins University
09/24/2008	Semantics and Services Enabled Problem Solving Environment for T. Cruzi Amit Sheth - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
09/10/2008	NCBO Current and Emerging Technologies Benjamin Dai - NCBO, Stanford University
06/10/2008	ICD-11 Chris Chute - Mayo Clinic
05/27/2008	Animal Models: PATO and ZFin Michael Ashburner & Monte Westerfield
05/13/2008	Ontology Views Jim Brinkley - Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington
04/29/2008	ICD-11 (#1) Chris Chute - Mayo Clinic
04/15/2008	BIRNLex & NIF Ontology Bill Bug - University of California, San Diego
04/01/2008	The NCBO Open Biomedical Ontology Database (OBD) Chris Mungall - Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
03/04/2008	Interactive Views for Navigating Ontologies and Data Margaret-Ann Storey - University of Victoria
01/22/2008	Open Biomedical Resources Nigam Shah - NCBO, Stanford University
01/08/2008	BioPortal Walkthrough Benjamin Dai - NCBO, Stanford University
12/18/2007	ODIE Toolkit Rebecca Crowley - University of Pittsburgh
10/16/2007	caBIG Frank Hartel
10/02/2007	Phenote Suzanna Lewis - Lawrence Berkeley National Labs