ImmPort

ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters

Date: October 9-10, 2013

Venue: Rho Federal Systems Division (6330 Quadrangle Dr. Suite 500, Chapel Hill, NC 27517)

Goals:

• 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 useful to researchers.

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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 Ashley Xia (NIAID): Opening Remarks

9:00 Barry Smith (ImmPort / University at Buffalo): A Practical Introduction to ImmPort and to NIH Mandates for Data Sharing and Reuse

-- 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

10:30 Break

10:45 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 Discussion leader: Jeff Wiser

Brainstorming on identifying pain points in submission and on strategies for improvement

Evening: Dinner

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Day 2: Thursday, October 9

8:00 Breakfast

8:30 Barry Smith: Initiating a consensus process for creating useful and usable standards and software approaches which will enhance the ImmPort submission process and guarantee discoverability

8:45 Tasking of break-out groups

the standards should be easy to use by ImmPort submitters,

should be recommendable for incorporation into data

management resources (for instance CTMSs);

be compatible with or derived from existing

standards

9:00 Break-Out Groups (possible areas -- final division to be determined on the basis of user requests):

disease areas (allergy / asthma / transplantation / auto-immune diseases / ...)

datatypes (clinical observations / mechanistic assays / ...)

FDA and other standards (CDISC / ... )

discoverability: what kind of data would you like to find in ImmPort and how would you search for it?

Each break-out group will

-- review existing standards and software in these areas

-- identify future needs and strategies

11:45 Report back and discuss next steps

12:30 Lunch / Close

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Break-Out Group Leaders and Presenters:

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

Barry Smith is ImmPort ontology lead.

Jeff Wiser manages the ImmPort project at Northrop Grumman.

Ashley Xia is the NIH Program Officer overseeing the creation of the ImmPort portal and Immune Epitope Database (IEDB).