Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology and the University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy are sponsoring a two-day training event to be held in Buffalo, NY on 12-13 April, 2008. This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to ontology with special reference to applications in the field of biomedical research. It will provide an introductory survey of methods and an overview of current developments and best practices in ontology in the life sciences. No prior knowledge of ontology is presupposed.
Program
Saturday, April 12
- 8:30am Registration and continental breakfast
- 9:00am Introduction: What is an ontology and what is it useful for?
- 10:30am Coffee
- 10:45am Basic Formal Ontology: An upper-level ontology to support scientific research
- 12:15pm Lunch
- 1:00pm Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
- 2:30pm Coffee
- 3:00pm The OBO Relation Ontology
- 4:30pm Close
Reasoning with biomedical data.
- 8:30am Continental breakfast
- 9:00am An ontological introduction to biomedicine: Defining organism, function and disease
- 10:30am Coffee
- 10:45am The OBO Foundry: A suite of biomedical ontologies
- 12:15pm Lunch
- 1:00pm The Gene Ontology (GO) and the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA)
- 2:30pm Coffee
- 3:00pm The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) and its applications
- 4:30pm Close
For prelimary reading consult [1].
A small charge will be made to participants to cover costs of refreshments. To register interest in participating please send an email to ontology@buffalo.edu.
For University at Buffalo students
This course will serve as an upper-level undergraduate or introductory graduate course in the University at Buffalo (PHI 499, PHI 599). UB students can register here.