Meeting: Finalizing an Integrated Behavior Ontology for the Behavioral Science Community in Two Workshops-August 7-8 2014, Princeton, N.J. and February 2015, Washington, DC

本体论或受控词汇表是科学中数据访问和数据共享的基础。该项目由两个研讨会组成，本体开发人员将在其中将动物行为本体(ABO)与神经行为本体(NBO)连接起来，ABO是一种针对各种动物的正常行为的本体，神经行为本体(NBO)是关于模式生物行为表型的成熟本体。随着行为研究变得越来越多的跨学科和协作性，建立一个统一的框架，在其中可以标记和共享数据变得越来越重要，以便充分利用在联邦支持下产生的数据。加入的ABO和NBO将成为一个本体，即综合行为本体。本体是受控词汇，指定存在的对象类、这些类之间的关系以及这些类的实例之间可能的关系。10多年前，行为主义者开始创建动物行为本体论(ABO)，这是一种跨非模式分类群的正常行为本体论。随着动物行为扩展到包括行为遗传学、基因组学、神经生物学，特别是模型生物的使用，专门的本体论正在发展。神经行为本体论(NBO)是模式生物行为表型的成熟本体论，但它缺乏与分类学上广泛的、基于进化的ABO的正式结构关系。为了实现这两个本体的集成，我们提出了一系列的两个研讨会。第一个会议将召集动物行为专家，以确定每个本体中需要根据关系定义、解析和组织的类别。第二次研讨会将把本体论专家和行为生物学家聚集在一起，采纳第一次研讨会中提出的建议和材料，并对NBO进行必要的更改，使完全集成成为可能。研究人员将通过期刊文章和与出版商合作来传播本体，将本体的元数据术语包括在补充材料和存储数据中。

Ontologies or controlled vocabularies are fundamental to data access and data sharing in the sciences. This project consists of two workshops where ontology developers would connect the Animal Behavior Ontology (ABO), an ontology of normal behavior across a wide variety of animals, to the NeuroBehavior Ontology (NBO), a well-developed ontology of the behavioral phenotypes of model organisms. As behavioral studies have become increasingly inter-disciplinary and collaborative, establishing a cohesive framework within which data can be labeled and shared becomes increasingly important to allow full utilization of data produced with federal support. The joined ABO and NBO will become one ontology, the Comprehensive Behavioral Ontology.Ontologies are controlled vocabularies that specify the classes of objects that exist, the relationships among those classes, and the possible relationships among instances of the classes. More than 10 years ago behaviorists began to create the Animal Behavior Ontology (ABO), an ontology of normal behavior across non-model taxa. As animal behavior expanded to include behavior genetics, genomics, neurobiology and particularly the use of model organisms, specialized ontologies are being developed. The NeuroBehavior Ontology (NBO) is a well-developed ontology of the behavioral phenotypes of model organisms, but it lacks a formal structural relationship to the taxonomically broad and evolution-based ABO. To bring about the integration of these two ontologies, we propose a series of two workshops. The first will convene animal behavior experts to identify the categories in each ontology that need to be defined, resolved and organized in terms of relationships. The second workshop will bring together ontology experts with behavioral biologists to take the recommendations and materials developed in the first workshop and make the necessary changes in the NBO that will make full integration possible. The researchers will disseminate the ontologies through journal article and working with publishers to include the ontology's meta data terms in supplementary material and deposited data.