ImmPort
ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters
Date: October 9-10, 2013
Venue: Alpha-Beta Room, Rho Federal Systems Division (6330 Quadrangle Dr. Suite 500, Chapel Hill, NC 27517)
Parking and Security: Non-Rho attendees can park anywhere, although there are visitor parking spaces near the front door. You need to check into the front desk where you will receive a name tag and be escorted to the room where we will be meeting. People who are traveling and have luggage with them have the option of leaving items in a locked closet during the meeting.
Goals of this meeting:
- to provide assistance to actual and potential submitters of data to ImmPort: how to make submission more intuitive and more efficient?
- to enable interaction between submitters and those charged with managing and improving ImmPort in order to identify problems and opportunities for improvement
- to improve extraction of data from ImmPort: how can we make ImmPort data more easily discoverable and more useful to researchers?
Draft Schedule
- All participants should feel free to propose additional topics for discussion by writing to Barry Smith
Day 1: Wednesday, October 9
8:00 Breakfast
8:45 Barry Smith (ImmPort / University at Buffalo): Opening Remarks
8:50 Participant Self-Introductions
9:00 David Ikle (Rho Federal): Database Creation and Data Analysis Processes at Rho Federal
9:30 Barry Smith : A Practical Introduction to ImmPort and to NIH Mandates for Data Sharing and Reuse[Slides
- -- overview of the goals of ImmPort
- -- role of standards and ontologies (1) for data submission (2) for data reuse
- -- successes and failures we can learn from
10:00 Anna Maria Masci (Duke University): The ImmPort Submission Process. A View From Biology Slides
10:30 Break
10:45 NIAID Asthma Consortium Facilitated Data Explorer
11:00 Discussion leader: Barry Smith
- Brainstorming on
- -- existing data management strategies and software tools to enhance data submission
- -- how to make your data discoverable and useable by external researchers
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Jeff Wiser (ImmPort / Northrop Grumman): Training session on submitting data to immPort
- -- the need to grow ImmPort's clinical submission area
14:30 Break
15:00 John Lim and Karen Kesler: The ImmPort Submission Process: Two Views from Rho
16:00 Discussion leader: Jeff Wiser
- Brainstorming on identifying pain points in submission and on strategies for improvement
Evening: Dinner
Day 2: Thursday, October 9
8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Lindsay Cowell and Anna Maria Masci: Immunology Ontologies
9:45 Barry Smith: Introduction to Allergy
10:45 Break
11:00 Who will be the users of ImmPort? / Next steps
12:00 Close
External participants:
- Lindsay Cowell is a computational immunologist at UT Southwestern
- Anna Maria Masci is in charge of submission of data to ImmPort for the Multiscale System Immunology project
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- Barry Smith is ImmPort ontology lead.
- Ravi Shankar is a researcher in the Atul Butte Lab at Stanford working on clinical trial ontology
- Jeff Wiser manages the ImmPort project at Northrop Grumman.
