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。该项目包括两个研讨会，本体开发人员将连接动物行为本体论（ABO），一个跨各种动物的正常行为的本体论，到神经行为本体论（NBO），一个模型生物体的行为表型的发达本体论。随着行为研究变得越来越多的跨学科和协作，建立一个有凝聚力的框架，其中数据可以被标记和共享变得越来越重要，以允许充分利用与联邦支持产生的数据。加入的ABO和NBO将成为一个本体，即综合行为本体。本体是指定存在的对象的类、这些类之间的关系以及类实例之间可能的关系的受控词汇表。十多年前，行为主义者开始创建动物行为本体论（ABO），这是一个跨非模型分类群的正常行为本体论。 随着动物行为学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，正在开发专门的本体论。神经行为本体论（NBO）是一个成熟的模式生物的行为表型的本体论，但它缺乏一个正式的结构关系的分类广泛和基于进化的ABO。为了实现这两个本体的整合，我们提出了一系列的两个研讨会。第一个将召集动物行为专家，以确定每个本体中需要定义，解决和组织关系的类别。第二次研讨会将汇集本体论专家与行为生物学家，以采纳第一次研讨会中提出的建议和材料，并对NBO进行必要的修改，使全面整合成为可能。研究人员将通过期刊文章传播本体，并与出版商合作，将本体的Meta数据术语纳入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.