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Thoughts on the Third
International
Conference on
Biomedical
Ontology
(ICBO) for the AVI
July 21-25, 2012
Graz, Austria
Suzanne Santamaria, DVM, MS
Veterinary Terminologist (and Ontologist)
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Vet Med Informatics Lab, Virginia Tech
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Thoughts On Attending the
ICBO
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Made connections
Future work/collaboration
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ICBO 2012
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Knowledge
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Organisms almost ubiquitous
Ontologies in action
Ontology development
and maintenance
General advice
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Ontologies in action
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Generate hypothesis
Large scale research
Predictive pharmacology
Access resources
Decision support with EHR
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Clinical Key
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Access resources
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Access resources
Smart Searching System
Smart Slide
video
Find It
video
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Decision support with EHR
Disease-Symptom Ontology
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Ontology Development and
Maintenance
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Check class names
Agile ontology engineering
Visualization
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BioMixer
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Visualization
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General
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Look outward not inward
Certificate of ontology in works
Standards into ontologies
Panel on finding users of ontologies
All ontologies a work in progress!
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Connections
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Future work
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ACO requests, annexes?
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Herd, fledgling, yearling birds
Non human primate, non
human organism
Adult squirrel, adult mouse
ACO on Bioportal?
“Lives in” relation
Vet involvement
What we do is paper-worthy
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Summary
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Good experience
ICBO and OBO are
relevant, important,
and evolving
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Seem open to animal work
Animal work already important!
Continue to contribute and participate
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ICBO 2013 - Montreal
Photo Credit:
The Montréal Buzz
Photo Credit:
Intelligent Travel,
National Geographic
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References
ICBO 2012
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http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/icbo.htm
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Links to papers on left hand side
NCBO Bioportal
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Multi-ontology browser and visualization, etc.
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http://bioportal.bioontology.org/
ClinicalKey
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ClinicalKey: Terminology driven Semantic Search. Sivaram Arabandi and
Helen Moran
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http://www.clinicalkey.com/
Smart Searching System
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Smart Searching System for Biomedical Information. Hong-Woo Chun, et al.
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http://59.27.71.173/ (intro in Korean; search in English and Korean)
Disease-Symptom Ontology
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Interpreting Patient Data using Medical Background Knowledge. Heiner
Oberkampf, et al.
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References
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BioMixer: Visualizing Mappings of Biomedical
Ontologies. Elena Voyloshnikova, et al.
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Requirements and Strategy for the Development of a
Pediatric Drug Ontology. Rachel Richesson, et al.
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OWL Representation of Drug Activities on Biological
Systems. Samuel Croset.
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Developing the Animals in Context Ontology. Suzanne
Santamaria, et al.
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References
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The SWO Project: A Case Study of Applying Agile
Ontology Engineering Methods in Community
Driven Ontologies. Maria Copeland, et al.
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Checking Class Labels against Naming
Conventions: First experience with the OntoCheck
Protégé Plugin. Daniel Schober, et al.
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Teaching Good Biomedical Ontology Design.
Martin Boeker, et al.
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Acknowledgement
Thank you to AVI for the travel support
to attend the conference
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