Tutorials and Classes

co-located with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, July 24-26, 2009

Two-Day Classes

July 20-21 Neil Williams: The Ontology of Powers and Dispositions David Hershenov: Metaphysics and Biomedical Ethics Thomas Bittner and Maureen Donnelly: Spatial Ontology and Qualitative Reasoning

July 22-23 Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology Barry Smith (Buffalo) and Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons): From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology

2. Half-Day Tutorials

Fabian Neuhaus: Reasoning with First Order Logic

Colin Batchelor: An Introduction to Chemistry Ontology

???: Reasoning with OWL

???: Protege

???: OBOEdit

???: PATO

???: Curating with OBO Foundry Ontologies

???: What Gene Ontology Curators Do

???: The Environment Ontology

???: Cross-Products

???: Ontology and Text-Mining