Standards/Ontologies for Functional Genomics Conference

描述(申请人提供)：本申请是为了支持将于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”。这次会议的总体目标是将对功能基因组学标准和本体的开发和使用有共同兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起。这次会议为知名研究人员和学生提供了一个独特的机会，就基因组和表型的功能注释的共享工具和程序进行互动和交流意见。鉴于新的基因组序列的不断发布，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，这些会议特别相关。在这些时代，研究人员和计算系统之间的科学交流与发现保持同步，这一点尤为重要。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领域的共享注释系统，并提供促进计算机和计算分析应用程序交换信息的标准和本体论。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知名研究人员将有机会分享新想法，展示新工具和应用，并确定潜在的合作。会议为期4天，每天2至3次，为期3天，25日晚设宴会。每节课由3-4场演讲组成，时长约25分钟，每次演讲结束时有5分钟时间回答听众的问题。额外的简短演讲将从提交的摘要中挑选出来。该格式将包括关于构建和维护本体的各种方法的本体研讨会、信息学资源演示会议，以及致力于将本体用于功能基因组注释、数据挖掘和知识发现应用的开发的海报会议。演讲者摘要将汇编成小册子并分发给与会者。在权限允许的情况下，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.