Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

第二届国际生物医学本体会议

• 批准号: 8129993
• 负责人: BARRY SMITH
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-19 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8129993
• 关键词: Address; Area; Awareness; Bioinformatics; Biological; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biomedical Research; Clinical; Clinical Medicine; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Collaborations; Communities; Computers; Controlled Vocabulary; Data; Development; Educational workshop; Electronic Health Record; Ensure; Event; Fostering; Funding; Genes; Genomics; Goals; International; Learning; Ontology; Outcome; Paper; Participant; Postdoctoral Fellow; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Services; Sorting - Cell Movement; Source; Structure; Students; Techniques; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Universities; Work; base; biomedical informatics; biomedical ontology; biomedical scientist; career; computer science; design; experience; programs; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The use of ontologies to describe both clinical and experimental data is now a standard technique in integrative translational research. When data from different sources are described using shared, logically structured, controlled vocabularies, this makes the data more easily retrievable and navigable, and it also enhances the degree to which they can be analyzed and combined to serve new purposes. Following a strategy pioneered by the Gene Ontology, ontologies are now being developed for the description of biological and biomedical data of almost every type. To achieve their goal in a maximally effective way, these ontologies must work well together, and as ontologies become ever more commonly used in all areas of the life sciences and of clinical and translational research, the problems involved in achieving coordination in ontology development become ever more urgent. To address these problems there is an urgent need for a general overarching conference involving representatives of all the major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine. Qualifications of Organizers and Participants. The organizers have considerable experience in directing major interdisciplinary events at the intersection of biology, biomedical informatics and clinical and translational research. Invited speakers will be leading figures in the field of biomedical ontology. Presentations will be selected on the basis of submissions refereed by the Scientific Committee. Steps are being taken to encourage submissions from under-represented groups. Papers accepted for presentation will be published in a volume of conference proceedings. Scientific Plans for the Proposed Conference. The workshop program is designed to ensure coverage of the entire domain of biomedical research, from genomics to clinical research. Principal anticipated long-term outcomes are: (1) heightened mutual awareness of the work being undertaken by the many groups involved in developing and using ontologies to serve the ends of clinical and translational research; (2) establishment of new cross-disciplinary collaborations among these groups. Rationale for Funding Support. The sorts of cross-disciplinary expertise in biology, biomedicine, biomedical informatics and computer science that are the presupposition of successful work in biomedical ontology are not yet adequately addressed in university training programs. There is accordingly a shortage of junior researchers with the needed awareness and expertise. We hope that this conference will serve as an initial step to addressing this shortfall. We are accordingly requesting funding to enable students and early career scientists, especially from under-represented groups, to participate in this second ICBO conference. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The use of ontologies to describe both clinical and experimental data is now a standard technique in integrative translational research. We request funding in the form of early career participant stipends for the first general conference involving representatives of all the major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine.

描述（由申请人提供）：使用本体来描述临床和实验数据现在是综合转化研究的标准技术。当使用共享的、逻辑结构化的、受控制的词汇表描述来自不同来源的数据时，这使得数据更容易检索和导航，并且还增强了分析和组合数据以服务于新目的的程度。遵循基因本体论开创的策略，现在正在开发用于描述几乎所有类型的生物和生物医学数据的本体论。为了以最有效的方式实现其目标，这些本体必须很好地协同工作，并且随着本体在生命科学以及临床和转化研究的所有领域中越来越普遍地使用，实现本体开发协调所涉及的问题变得更加紧迫。为了解决这些问题，迫切需要召开一次由所有参与生物医学本体发展和应用的主要团体的代表参加的总括性会议。