SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20080919

NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting

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Notes

Friday September 19, 2008: 2:30-3:30 PM EST
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Tcon Agenda

• Roll Call/Note-taker (Will Schroeder) (5 min)
• Minutes from most recent SDIWG tcon May 16, 2008 (5 min)
• Debrief NCBC All Hands Meeting, August 13-15, 2008. Logistics, Planning & Brainstorming discussion (Peter, Karin, All)
• Status check on three working groups:
  • Biositemaps Resourceome
    • State of Biositemaps. The underlying technology for Biositemaps is the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) V2.1 and the Information Model (IM) which is encapsulated in the Biositemaps Editor. Please try it out.
    • The Tiger Team is working on this phase of biositemaps.
    • If you want to view the working group thread, suggest you start at the Four basic activities, Authoring/Consuming of Biositemaps/BRO
    • Peter Lyster's 8 Action Items (August 2008)
    • Plans for adoption within and beyond NCBCs
    • Biositemaps white paper v4.0 (Needs Updating: Peter, Ivo, Daniel).
    • Cheat Sheet for NCBC Leads to adopt Biositemaps
    • Ongoing activities of Biositemaps team
  • Scientific Ontologies
  • NCBC Driving Biological Projects Interactions and Impact
• Questions/Information Sharing
• From May 16 SDIWG, any progress on: Setting up a booth at the annual neuroscience meeting. There’s great interest in the tools being developed. If agenda for meeting isn’t set, holding a session to talk about the tools would be even more effective

Minutes

• Note taker: [Suggested order of note takers for future meetings: Will Schroeder (this one); Floratos; Rubin; Jags, Dinov, Murphy, Ku]
• Review of May 16, 2008 Minutes

• Attendees: Peter Lyster (NIH/NIGMS), Will Schroeder (NA-MIC), Ivo Dinov (CCB), Daniel Rubin (NCBO), Brian Haugen (OD), Joy Ku (Simbios), Jerry Li (NCI), Brian Athey (NCIBI), Gil Omenn (NCIBI), David States (NCIB), Aris Floratos (MAGNet), William Lau (CIT), John Matochik (NIAAA), Karen Skinner (NIDA), Nanwei Cao (NIAAA), Beth Kirschner (NCIBI)
• Biositemaps Resourceome Update
• Scientific Ontologies Update
  • Committee decided that writing a paper on ontology evaluation is a good idea. Expected time frame for first draft is Thanksgiving time frame. General anectode that ontology has relatively unknown and their is a hungry community for them. Journal of Biomedical Informatics is a possible target. One disadvantage is that we want to reach the biomedical scientists. Nature of Medicine might be another place. We were wondering about metrics for evaluation ontologies.
• Driving Biological Projects and Impact Update
  • Brian: Believes that the NCBCs will be evaluated based on what highlights/discoveries have been enabled by the NCBCs? how they impact health problems, which may be more important, comparatively than the infrastructure developments. Advocating a special Simbios issue of glossy mag to highlight NCBC contributions. Put on an event on as a panel to discuss NCBC contributions. Brian also talked about NCI-related caBIG Knowledge Center and contributions to the data sharing initiative. Joyce led discussion on 32-page glossy mag (Biomedical Computing Review), wondering how to divvy this up across publication space/time. We talked about winter and spring issues as possibilities. Karen recommended shooting for December deadline.

• NCBC DBPs:
  • CCB DBPs:
    • Identifying Age Related Atrophy Using Levelset Registration of Embedded Maps
    • Developmental Origin of Phenotypic Variation in Drosophila Melanogaster
    • Mapping Brain Changes in HIV/AIDS
    • Vervet Genetics and Brain Morphology
    • Mapping Language Development Longitudinally
    • Mapping Brain Changes In Alzheimer's & Those at Risk
    • Mechanisms Underlying the Clinical Progression of MS and EAE
    • Genetic Influences on Brain Structure in Schizophrenia

• Meeting Schedule:

Appendix: Biositemaps white paper

The biositemaps Biositemaps white paper v4.0 (Needs Updating) presents description of prototype for distributed architecture to address

• locating,
• querying,
• composing or combining, and
• mining software tools and information resources on the Internet.