Standards/Ontologies for Functional Genomics Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请用于支持将于2004年10月23-26日在费城宾夕法尼亚大学举行的“功能基因组学标准和本体论会议”。本次会议的总体目标是汇集研究人员谁有共同的兴趣在开发和使用的标准和本体的功能基因组学。本次会议为研究人员和学生提供了一个独特的机会，就基因组和表型功能注释的共享工具和程序进行互动和交流。鉴于新基因组序列的不断公布、高通量实验技术的共同使用、分子生物学对生物医学的影响以及比较基因组学在人类生物学和疾病研究中的重要性，这些会议特别具有现实意义。在这个时代，研究人员和计算系统之间的科学交流与发现保持同步尤为重要。因此，这些会议的主要目的是促进和维护基因组学和生物信息学社区的共享注释系统，并提供标准和本体，以促进计算机和计算分析应用程序的信息交换。为此，来自计算机科学，实验生物学和生物信息学不同领域的学生和既定研究人员将有机会分享新的想法，展示新的工具和应用程序，并确定潜在的合作。会议将在4天内召开，每天将举行两到三次会议，为期三天，并在25日晚上举行宴会。 会议将包括3-4个邀请演讲，长度约为25分钟，每次演讲结束时分配5分钟用于听众提问。将从提交的摘要中选择其他简短的演讲。该格式将包括本体论讲习班的各种方法来构建和维护本体论，信息学资源演示会议，以及一个海报会议，致力于在使用本体论的功能基因组注释，数据挖掘和知识发现应用的发展。发言者摘要将汇编成一本小册子，分发给与会者。如果许可，这些摘要也将在http://www.jax.org/courses网站上提供。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for support of the "Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics Conference", to be held on October 23-26, 2004 at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The overall objective of this conference is to bring together investigators who have a common interest in the development and use of standards and ontologies for functional genomics. This conference provides a unique opportunity for established investigators and students to interact and exchange ideas regarding shared tools and procedures for the functional annotation of genomes and phenotypes. Such conferences are particularly relevant in light of the continued release of new genome sequences, the shared use of high-throughput experimental techniques, the impact of molecular biology on biomedicine, and the importance of comparative genomics in the investigation of human biology and disease. It is particularly important in these times that scientific communication between researchers and computational systems keeps pace with discovery. It is, therefore, the primary aim of these conferences to promote and maintain shared annotation systems in the genomics and bioinformatics communities, and to provide standards and ontologies to facilitate the exchange of information by computers and computation analysis applications. Toward this end, students and established investigators from different areas of computer science, experimental biology, and bioinformatics will have an opportunity to share new ideas, demonstrate new tools and applications, and identify potential collaborations. The conference will convene over a period of 4 days, and will consist of two to three sessions per day for three days with a banquet on the evening of the 25. Sessions will consist of 3-4 invited lectures of approximately 25 minutes in length, with 5 minutes allotted at the end of each presentation for questions from the audience. Additional short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. The format will include ontologies workshops on various approaches to constructing and maintaining ontologies, an informatics resource demonstration session, and a poster session dedicated to developments in using ontologies for functional genome annotations, data mining, and knowledge discovery applications. Speaker abstracts will be assembled into a booklet and distributed to the conference participants. These abstracts will also be made available on the web at http://www.jax.org/courses as permissions allow.