Workshop on Ontology of Diseases
General Information
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology will host a two-day workshop focused on the ontology of diseases on November 6-7, 2006 in Baltimore, MD.
The goals of the workshop are to promote sound, principles-based ontology construction and to raise the level of cooperation between people who work in this and related fields.
Preliminary Agenda
Monday November 6
Morning
- Introduction
- Session I: Disease Ontologies - Where We Are (Moderator: Rex Chisholm)
- Rex Chisholm: OBO Disease Ontology
- Winston Hide or Oliver Hofmann: eVOC Ontologies
- Kent Spackman: SNOMED CT
Afternoon
- Session II: What is a Disease? (Moderator: Barry Smith)
Tuesday November 7
Morning
- Session III: Problems of Disease Ontologies (Moderator: Werner Ceusters)
Afternoon
- Session IV: The Next Steps: Moderated Discussion (Moderatrix: Suzanna Lewis)
- Informal Strategy Session
(The workshop will start on Monday November 6 at 9 am and will end on Tuesday November 7 at 6 pm.)
Participation
For the usual practical reasons we want to keep the number of people attending small. For this reason registration is closed.
Participants
Carol Bean -– National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
Olivier Bodenreider -– National Library of Medicine
Mathias Brochhausen -– IFOMIS, Saarland University
Werner Ceusters -– IFOMIS, Saarland University
Rex Chisholm -– Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University
Christopher Chute -– Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Elaine Collier -– National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
Louis Goldberg -– Oral Biology, University at Buffalo
Kristel Hackett -– MGH Laboratory of Computer Science
Frank Hartel -– National Cancer Institute
Winston Hide -– National Bioinformatics Institute, University Western Cape
Oliver Hofmann -– National Bioinformatics Institute, University Western Cape
Ingvar Johansson -– IFOMIS, Saarland University
Anand Kumar -– IFOMIS, Saarland University
Suzanna Lewis -– NCBO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Onard Mejino -– Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington
Chris Mungall -– NCBO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fabian Neuhaus -– NCBO, University at Buffalo
Richard Scheuermann -– Pathology, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center
Stefan Schulz -– Medical Informatics, Freiburg University Hospital
Kent Speckman -– Medical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University
Nigam Shah -– NCBO, Stanford Medical Informatics
Barry Smith -– NCBO, University at Buffalo
Neil Williams -– Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Gao Yong -– Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Venue
Inn at the Colonnade 4 West University Parkway Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Telephone: +1 410 235 5400 Fax: +1 410 235 5572
The Inn at the Colonnade is located across from Johns Hopkins University less than four miles from Baltimore's CBD and historic Inner Harbor, and only 20 minutes from BWI International Airport.
A block of rooms have been reserved for those Workshop participants and attendees wishing to stay at the Inn at the Colonnade. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-222-TREE. When making reservations, workshop participants and attendees are asked to identify themselves as being a member of the NCBO group. All reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival by charging to a major credit card. Workshop participants and attendees are encouraged to make room reservations no later than 10/15/06. After 10/15/06, the Inn at the Colonnade may offer unused rooms held in the NCBO block to other customers. Reservations requested by Workshop participants and attendees after 10/15/06 will be accepted by the Inn at the Colonnade based upon availability and prevailing rates.
Links and Literature
The workshop is associated with FOIS 2006 and KRMed 2006.
Amarnath Gupta et alia: Towards a formalization of disease-specific ontologies for neuroinformatics.
Cornelius Rosse, Anand Kumar, Jose LV Mejino Jr, Daniel L Cook, Landon T Detwilern and Barry Smith, “A Strategy for Improving and Integrating Biomedical Ontologies”
Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Anand Kumar and Cornelius Rosse, “On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities”, Comparative and Functional Genomics
Some papers on SNOMED.