Workshop on Ontologies for the Virtual Physiological Human

An ontology-based interoperability framework for physiology- and disease-related data and models requires community-wide strategies to: 1) co-ordinate and assist with ontology development, and 2) support and simplify resource annotation with ontology terms.

This meeting will aim to: 

• examine relevant case studies and provide detailed discussion and guidelines in ontology development;
• build a long-term strategy for the community to establish ontology-based standards for resource interoperability. 

The topics for discussion are the following: 

• What is an ontology?
• What is an ontology for?
• The OBO Foundry - using ontologies to coordinate research.
• How ontologies help reasoning: overview of tools.
• Interactive sessions on the VPH, physiology, diseases and disease processes.

Those who are using or building ontologies for modeling, and are interested in participating are invited to send their name, contact details and affiliation to Bernard de Bono. As places for this workshop are limited, it is advisable to book in advance of the deadline of 18 December 2009.

Event email: bdb@ebi.ac.uk