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. The workshop will take place on November 6-7, 2006 in Baltimore, beginning at 9am on Monday and concluding with dinner on Tuesday evening.

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.

The workshop will consist of four sections:

Monday November 6

9:00am Disease Ontologies: Where We Are (Moderator: Rex Chisholm)

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm What is a Disease? (Moderator: Barry Smith)

6:00pm Dinner

Tuesday November 7

9:00am Problems of Disease Ontologies: SNOMED CT and Beyond (Moderator: Werner Ceusters)

12:30 Lunch

1:30pm The Next Steps: Moderated Discussion (Moderatrix: Suzanna Lewis)

6:00pm Dinner

Participation Requests for participation are welcome. Please send a brief statement of your expertise, and of the reasons for your interest in the topic of disease ontology, to Fabian Neuhaus.

Links and Literature

The workshop is associated with FOIS 2006 and KRMed 2006.

The OBO disease ontology.

The eVOC ontologies.

Amarnath Gupta et alia: Towards a formalization of disease-specific ontologies for neuroinformatics.