IDO Kick-Off Meeting

Infectious Disease Ontology Kick-off Workshop and Public Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

The Infectious Disease Ontology Workshop and Meeting (see link below under "Past Meetings") were intended to serve as both a training workshop for participants and a forum through which to establish a community for development, maintenance, and use of the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). The workshop and meeting were supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Training Workshop on Infectious Disease Ontology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY: September 19-20, 2007

• Background
• Program

Public Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY: September 21, 2007

• Infectious Disease: A Challenge for Biomedical Informatics

Report

• http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Infectious_Disease_Ontology_Meeting_Report.doc

Slides

September 19, 2007

• Morning Session 1 (Cowell): http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Introduction_to_the_Human_Immune_System.ppt
• Morning Session 2 (Cowell): http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Introduction_to_Microbial_Pathogenesis.ppt
• Afternoon and Evening Sessions (Smith): http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/IDO/

September 21, 2007

• Topics in Infectious Disease Research
  • Stefan Kaufmann: Global Threats Need Global Research Efforts: The Example of Tuberculosis
  • Ronald Veazey: Utility of Nonhuman Primates for Examining Transmission and Pathogenesis of HIV Infection
• Ontologies and their Application to Infectious Disease
  • Steve Gordon: Surgical Endocarditis: Bringing Ontology into the Operating Room
  • Michael Ashburner: Ontologies for Biomedicine: The GO Experience
  • Lynn Schriml: The GEMINA Information Resource
• Ontology and the Future of Infectious Disease Research (Panel Session)
  • Cowell: http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Cowell_Infectious_Disease_Ontology_Panel.ppt
  • Scheuermann: http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Scheuermann_Infectious_Disease_Ontology_Panel.ppt
  • Stein: http://www.duke.edu/~lgcowell/IDO_Workshop_Files/Stein_Infectious_Disease_Ontology_Panel.ppt

Software Downloads

• Download the OBO-Edit ontology editor: http://oboedit.org/
• Download the Protege OWL ontology editor: http://protege.stanford.edu/download/download.html
• Protege OWL contains a very useful tutorial, you can access it by opening Protege OWL and looking under "Help"
• Download Pellet (a reasoner for OWL): http://pellet.owldl.com/
• The Protege developers have created a short, helpful guide to installing Pellet and making sure that Pellet is running in conjunction with Protege OWL: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege/200703/prepare.html

Workshop on the Ontology of Diseases, November 6-7, 2006

• Workshop on Ontology of Diseases. Links to presentations at this meeting:
  • Kent Spackman: SNOMED CT Slides
  • Barry Smith: What a Disease Ontology is for Slides Audio
  • Neil Williams: The Ontology of Powers, Dispositions and Tendencies Slides
  • Louis J. Goldberg: Networks and the Ontology of Disease Slides Audio
  • Werner Ceusters: The Ontology of Diagnosis: Slides Audio
  • Chris Mungall: DO and the OBO Foundry Slides Audio