SDIWG: NCBC Scientific Ontologies

This is the main page for the NIH Roadmap National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) Working Group titled: Scientific Ontologies

Top page of ncbcs.org web site which is maintained by the NCBCs themselves

Top page of SDIWG web site

Contacts for this Working Group are Zak Kohane (isaac_kohane@harvard.edu), Suzi Lewis(suzi@fruitfly.org), and Mark Musen (musen@stanford.edu)

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The following are important output from the Scientific Ontologies working group, with most recent at the top, and we welcome comments from the community

• Suzi Lewis Compilation of proposed ontologies and data standards selected for use by the NCBCs, as of February 2007. Additional information can be found in the Working Group Meeting Minutes 20070209

• Preliminary Results from Scientific Ontologies WG #1

• Proposal for common reference ontologies/vocabularies (The States 8)

• Commentary on States 8

• Need for (semi-)automated ontology mapping

• Comments from Bill Bug

• Comments_on_Imaging_and_Neuroinformatics_Ontologies

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Meetings of Relevance to Scientific Ontologies

• Past meetings

• Upcoming meetings:
  • The next meeting of the Scientific Ontologies Section of the SDIWG will take place on October 30-31, 2007 in Newark, NJ as part of a joint NCBO/MagNet workshop on Ontology and Cellular Networks.

• Highlights from Scientific Ontologies TCONs
  • Meeting Minutes 20070209
  • Meeting Minutes 20060601