JCOR

Joint NCBO-JCOR Tokyo Dissemination Workshop

On February 26-27, 2008 there took place in Tokyo the Inaugural Conference of the Japanese Center for Ontological Research ith funding support from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Research. A joint NCBO-JCOR Dissemination Workshop on Biomedical Ontologies was organized as part of this event. Approximately 80 persons participated. The program was as follows:

• Thomas Bittner (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo): Ontology and Qualitative Medical Images Analysis

• Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo): Harmonization of Patient Assessment Instruments in the USA: A Compelling Case for Realism-Based Ontology

• Shinsuke Fujita (Chiba University Hospital): Ontology based ICPC-3 revision to study the morbidity of chronic disease.

• Ken Fukuda (Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology): The INOH pathway database: Curation, Annotation, Integration

• Yu Lin (Kobe University): An Ontology of Genetic Susceptibility Factors for Diabetes Mellitus (OGSF-DM)

• Jun Nakaya (Information Center for Medical Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University): Clinical Omics Ontology and National Projects in Japan (toward Social Information Infrastructure)

• Andrew Newman (University of Queensland, Australia): The BioMANTA Ontology: Integration of Protein-Protein Interaction Data

• Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons / Neurocommons): The Semantic Web for Scientific Research: A ‘perfect storm’ for the development of Ontology

• Barry Smith (NCBO): The Evaluation of Ontologies: Editorial Review vs. Democratic Ranking

Other presentations from the JCOR inaugural meeting included:

• Bill Andersen, Ontologies, Data Models, and Ontology

• Nicola Guarino, Ontologies, Conceptualizations, and Possible Worlds

• Riichiro Mizoguchi, Functional Ontology of Artifacts