Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting

Internal Meeting: Survey on-going work and future plans

• Time: January 27, 2014, 4-6pm
• Venue: IHI, Main Street, Buffalo, NY

Topics to be addressed will include:

Activities in IHI and in Department of Biomedical Informatics (Peter Elkin)

PRO: The Protein Ontology

Defining 'protein aggregate' (Alan Ruttenberg)

Use of PRO in ImmPort Antibody Registry (Alex Diehl)

Future of PRO (Barry Smith)

BISC-ImmPort

General overview (Barry Smith)

CL-ImmPort-HIPC

Enhancing the Cell Ontology for Immunology Research (Alex Diehl)

DoD Ontologies

General Overview (Barry Smith)

National Center for Biomedical Ontology

Workshop: Ontology for Imaging Informatics (Buffalo, June 23-25, 2014)

I also have a current National Multiple Sclerosis Society Pilot Project grant, from 6/1/13-5/31/14. This supports work on MS-related extensions of ND and OBI to analyze patient records in the NYSMSC patient registry. Mark Jensen is doing most of the ontology development. Alan and Bianca are co-investigators.

I am (hopefully) submitting a proposal Jan 31 to the Progressive MS Alliance for support of MS ontology development for annotation of published clinical research in MS. Alan will be a Co-I, and the grant will support one post-doc for one year if funded.

elja about improving the evolutionary ontology and terminology authoring method and applying it to BFO.