The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data

Date: May 12-13, 2015

Venue

• Day 1 (10am-5pm) and Day 2 Morning (9am-noon) will be in NCI's Shady Grove building (9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850), in Room 2W-32/34.

• Day 2 Afternoon (1-3pm) will be a public session in the Natcher Conference Center, NIH Building 45, Bethesda, MD 20892

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Goal of the meeting (to be expanded)

To better understand the challenges involved in using big data for cancer research, and to explore the utility of ontologies in addressing these challenges.

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Areas of interest

• TCGA
• Ontology work on actionable mutations
• IoM new disease taxonomy
• Big Cancer Imaging Data
• Clinical genomics
• Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)

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Sponsors

• National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
• National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)
• National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
• Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval ([CEDAR)

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Participants will include

• Evan Bolton (NIH / NLM / NCBI)
• Sherri de Coronado (National Cancer Institute)
• Lindsay Cowell (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
• Peter Elkin (Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo)
• Gilberto Fragoso (National Cancer Institute)
• Gang Fu (NIH / NLM / NCBI)
• Ilya Goldberg (Image Informatics and Computational Biology Unit, National Institute on Aging)
• Warren Kibbe (National Cancer Institute / Disease Ontology)
• Raja Mazumder (Georgetown University / Protein Information Resource)
• Elvira Mitraka (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
• Susan Mockus, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT)
• 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 (University of Maryland, 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)