NCBO Seminar Series - Meeting Info for TOMORROW, Feb 4!

Hello All!
 
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce its
next online Seminar Series on TOMORROW, February 4th at 10am PST. This
series aims to showcase new projects, technologies and ideas in
biomedical ontology by featuring the work of a different collaborator
each session. It is a webinar held online, and as such is open to anyone
interested, regardless of location or affiliation. 

Below is Information on how to join next week's online meeting and
accompanying teleconference. The seminar, Infectious Disease Ontology,
will be presented by Lindsay Cowell, Duke University, with Introduction
by Barry Smith. Please see the abstract for this presentation below, or
at http://www.bioontology.org/videos/IDO.html.

For a schedule of 2009 presentations through June, or for more
information about the series, please visit the Seminar Series home page:
http://www.bioontology.org/seminar_series.html. Information on how to
join this week's webinar is given below. To receive information on or to
join any future meetings, please contact me at skanel@stanford.edu. 

The sponsoring organization, the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(http://www.bioontology.org), is a consortium of leading biologists,
clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative
technology and methods allowing scientists to create, disseminate, and
manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form.


We hope to see you there.


TITLE: Infectious Disease Ontology

ABSTRACT: The Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) was initiated as part of
the 
OBO Foundry with funding from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund and from the
NIAID. Its goal is to provide a common template for the creation of
ontologies for families of diseases, pathogens, and vectors. The
benefits of this template approach are that it allows for each of the
ontologies to be developed by experts in the domain of a particular
ontology while ensuring that the resulting ontologies and the data
annotated in their terms are interoperable. In addition, providing a
template reduces errors and allows the ontology developers to progress
rapidly by reducing the false starts common to early stage ontology
development.

IDO will be tested using data from Staphylococcus aureus (S.a.)
infection, one of the most common and potentially deadly human
infections, with the goal of predicting disease genes and drawing
consequences for developing new sorts of patient-centered diagnosis and
treatment. Other diseases being studied by the members of the IDO
Consortium include malaria and other vector-borne diseases,
tuberculosis, infective endocarditis, influenza and dengue fever. Dr.
Cowell will outline the structure and goals of the IDO project, and the
work of the IDO consortium. Further information on the initiative is
available at http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/.


 

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