International PAG Ontology Workshop 14 January 2008

Dear All,

If you are attending the 16th International Plant and Animal Genome
meeting to be held in San Diego (USA), everyone is cordially invited to
attend the “Biological Ontologies and Applications” workshop that is
scheduled for Monday Afternoon, 14 January 2008 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm. We
have a great panel of talks scheduled for this year's workshop, and look
forward to see you at the meeting.

Thanks
Pankaj

[Only registered users see links. ]
Monday Afternoon, 14 January 2008 --- 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm

Biological Ontologies and Applications - Royal Palm Salon 1, 2, and 3

Organizer: Pankaj Jaiswal,Cornell University
([Only registered users see links. ])

Workshop Background:

The use of various ontologies for biology has been clearly
demonstrated in several biological domains e.g., Gene Ontology and Plant
Ontology. An Ontology is a common, structured and controlled vocabulary
for describing the concepts that exist in an area of knowledge and the
relationships that exist between them. Over the last few years a number
of ontologies have been developed and implemented for use in the
biological databases. However, among the researchers, the enthusiasm for
ontologies has been accompanied by a general lack of awareness of what
exactly ontologies are and how to use them. In this workshop we are
trying to promote awareness and interaction among the researchers
(audiences) and the developers of various ontology and/or those
developing computational tools for using these ontologies in large/small
scale analysis of genomics and genetics datasets.

Useful link: OBO Foundry Ontologies

Speakers:


12:50pm
Michael Ashburner, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge,
UK ([Only registered users see links. ].ac.uk)
"GAZ an ENVO: Two new ontologies to help tame data."

1:20pm
Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
([Only registered users see links. ])
"OBI: Ontology for Biomedical Investigations"

1:45pm
Ken Ichiro Fukuda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan ([Only registered users see links. ].jp)
"Inoh Pathway Event Ontology"

2:10pm
Jayesh Pandey, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA
([Only registered users see links. ])
"Functional Characterization Of Pathways In Interaction Networks"

2:35pm
Neil Sarkar, Encyclopedia of Life, Marine Biological Laboratory,
USA ([Only registered users see links. ])
"Towards Developing Practical Taxonomic Ontologies"