The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data

Date: May 12-13, 2015

Day 1 (10am-5pm) and Day 2 (9am-noon) will be a smaller meeting, up to 40 people, at NCI Shady Grove.

Day 2 Afternoon (1-3pm): public session in Natcher.

The topic is: The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data

Possible subtopics include:

TCGA (e.g. How to expand TCGA to give an enhanced role to proteomics) Ontology work (for example using the PRO) on actionable mutations Applications to personalized medicine IoM new disease taxonomy Big Cancer Imaging Data Clinical genomics

Sponsors: National Cancer Institute, National Center for Biomedical Ontology

Participants will include:

• Ilya Goldberg (Image Informatics and Computational Biology Unit, National Institute on Aging)
• Peter Elkin (Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo)
• Gilberto Fragoso (National Cancer Institute)
• Warren Kibbe (National Cancer Institute / Disease Ontology)
• Mark Musen (Stanford / National Center for Biomedical Ontology and Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval)
• Darren Natale (Georgetown University / Protein Ontology Consortium)
• Lynn Schriml (Baltimore / Disease Ontology)
• Barry Smith (Buffalo / Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry)
• John Tomaszewski (Buffalo)
• Cathy Wu (Delaware / Protein Ontology)
• Wenjin J. Zheng (Center for Computational Biomedicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)