Relation Ontology 2018

Date: October 24-25, 2018

Venue: SpringHill Suites Denver at Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

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Background

The first Relation Ontology meeting, organized by Mike Bada, Larry Hunter, Chris Mungall and Barry Smith, was held in Denver in 2008. Through a series of preparatory phone calls and then the two day meeting in October, we propose to make progress on these issues. Your participation, including in defining the goals and tasks of the group, would be welcome.

This ten-year anniversary meeting is designed to draw on the lessons learned in the intervening years in order to review progress on the current RO and suggest a plan for the future. The meeting, organized by Larry Hunter and Barry Smith, is part of the series of meetings organized by the Protein Ontology Consortium. Groundwork for the meeting will be laid in a series of pre-meetings, both online and in the form of teleconferences. Those wishing to participate in these pre-meetings and/or in the face-to-face meeting in Denver should contact Barry Smith.

Goals

The goals of this meeting are:

• 1. To review the current treatment of relations in the OBO Foundry and to establish a strategy to establish the Relation Ontology on a firmer footing, with a core, consisting of the relations used in a wide range of ontologies, and a well-curated collection of modules extending the core, wherever possible using standard ontology engineering techniques so that more complex relations are defined in terms of more primitive relations in the RO Core.

• 2. Harmonizing the many alternative sets of relations used by various OBO ontologies.
• 3. Providing a set of paradigm RO use cases, for example:

providing a set of relations sufficient for expressing the relations among OBO terms denoted by statements in biomedical journal articles.

providing a set of relations sufficient for capturing the relations between PRO terms and terms in other OBO ontologies.

Pre-Meetings

Teleconferences will be scheduled in conjunction with the OBO-Coordinators calls at noon to 1pm Eastern on the following dates:

July 17

July 31

August 14

August 28

Dial-in details will be provided in due course.

We will also organize an informal face-to-face event at the ICBO meeting in Corvallis, OR on August 7-10.

Very Rough Draft Schedule: Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Schedule will evolve in light of results of teleconference pre-meetings

Introductory Session

9:00 Cathy Wu: "Introduction"

9:15 9:15 Chris Mungall, David Osumi Sutherland, James Overton: A basic introduction to RO

Underlying principles and organization

OWL axiomatization

Design Patterns

Overview of main areas

How to contribute

10:00 Barry Smith: What is wrong with the Relation Ontology

10:45 Break

11:00 Larry Hunter: Relation Ontology 2018: Cross-ontology harmonization and new use cases

11:45 Alan Ruttenberg: OWL, Relations and Time

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Mike Bada: RO and the CRAFT Corpus

TBD

Chair:

13:30 TBD

15:00 Break

15:15 Cecilia Arighi: "Discussion session on RO in PRO"

18:00 Working dinner

Very Rough Draft Schedule: Thursday, October 25, 2018

TBD

Chair:

9:00 TBD

10:30 Break

10:45 TBD

12:15 Lunch

13:00 TBD

16:00 Close

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Participants will include:

Cecilia Arighi (Delaware / PRO)

Mike Bada (Denver)

William Baumgartner (Denver)

Judith Blake (JAX)

Peter d'Eustachio (NYU)

Alexander Diehl (Buffalo)

Robert Hoehndorf (KAUST)

William Hogan (Florida)

Larry Hunter (Denver)

Suzanna Lewis (LBNL)

Chris Mungall (LBNL)

Darren Natale (Georgetown)

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

Cathy Wu (Delaware / PRO)

Please contact Barry Smith for further information.

Sponsors

The Protein Ontology Consortium

University of Colorado Knowledge-Based Biomedical Data Science Program

National Center for Ontological Research