International Conference on Biomedical Ontology Buffalo, NY July 26-20, 2011
February 1st: Deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals
March 1st: Deadline for papers
Emphasis on:
- Techniques and technologies for collaborative ontology development
- Reasoning with biomedical ontologies
- Evaluation of biomedical ontologies
- Biomedical ontology and the Semantic Web
Ontologies for :
- Biomedical imaging
- Biochemistry and drug discovery
- Biomedical investigations, experimentation, clinical trials
- Clinical and translational research
- Development and anatomy
- Electronic health records
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Metagenomics
- Neuroscience, psychiatry, cognition
Questions:
- What role (if any) do you see for topic maps in biomedical ontology development, review or use? (3-5 pages, no citations)
- Choose a biomedical ontology or some aspect of its use and describe how you would apply a topic map to it. (3-5 pages, citations)
- How would you use a topic map to assist in the creation of a biomedical ontology? (3-5 pages, citations)