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: The goals of this meeting are:

• 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?

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

[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith} is ImmPort ontology lead.

Jeff Wiser

Each break-out group will

-- review existing standards and software in these areas

-- identify future needs and strategies

d 11:45 Report back and discuss next steps

12:30 Lunch / Close