Workshop Background:

The use of various ontologies for biology has been clearly demonstrated in several biological domains e.g., Gene Ontology and Plant Ontology. An Ontology is a common, structured and controlled vocabulary for describing the concepts that exist in an area of knowledge and the relationships that exist between them. Over the last few years a number of ontologies have been developed and implemented for use in the biological databases. However, among the researchers, the enthusiasm for ontologies has been accompanied by a general lack of awareness of what exactly ontologies are and how to use them. In this workshop we are trying to promote awareness and interaction among the researchers (audiences) and the developers of various ontology and/or those developing computational tools for using these ontologies in large/small scale analysis of genomics and genetics datasets.

Useful link: OBO Foundry Ontologies

Speakers:

10:50pm
Michael Ashburner, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK (ma11@gen.cam.ac.uk)
"GAZ an ENVO: Two new ontologies to help tame data."

1:20pm
Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA (bpeters@liai.org)
"OBI: Ontology for Biomedical Investigations"

1:45pm
Ken Ichiro Fukuda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (fukuda-cbrc@aist.go.jp)
"Inoh Pathway Event Ontology"

2:10pm
Jayesh Pandey, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA (jpandey@cs.purdue.edu)
"Functional Characterization Of Pathways In Interaction Networks"

2:35pm
Neil Sarkar, Encyclopedia of Life, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA (sarkar@mbl.edu)
"Towards Developing Practical Taxonomic Ontologies"

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