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.
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
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
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).
