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Third Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting CFP





Announcing the 3rd Annual Bio-Ontologies Workshop

"Sharing Experiences and Spreading Best Practice"
Sponsored by SmithKline Beecham

http://www.ingenuity.com/bio-ontology

Price Center Theatre
Univ. of California at San Diego 
La Jolla, California, USA

We would like to invite you to the Third Annual Bio-Ontologies
Meeting (Bio-Ontologies 2000), on August 24th in La Jolla,
California, USA. This is immediately after the ISMB-00 August
20-23 in La Jolla. 
                            
The goal of this consortium is the identification and promotion of
a practical set of technologies that will aid in the knowledge
management and exchange of concepts and representations in
the life sciences. The first meeting took place in Montreal in
1998, and made clear the general interest and support people
had for ontologies in the life sciences. The following year in
Heidelberg we discussed ontology exchange and presented
ontologies currently under development. 
                            
Many in the group have been active since our last meeting. The
community now has considerable experience in the development
and deployment of ontologies in the life sciences, so it is
appropriate for us to take stock and reflect.  So the theme for this
year's meeting is Sharing Experiences and Spreading Best
Practice. The idea is that we share not only the results of our
labors but how we got there, and what we wished we had known
while we did it. 
                            
The programme includes: 
Opening keynote:         It Is What It Does: The Pragmatics of Ontology
as
                         Language, Contract, and Content, 
			 Tom Gruber, Intraspect Software.

Three invited speakers:  A Report on the Status of the Gene Ontology
                         Consortium, Mike Cherry, GO Consortium

                         Early Challenges in Building an Ontology for
                         Pharmacogenomics, Russ Altman, Stanford
University

                         The GKB Editor Ontology Authoring Tool and the
EcoCyc
                         Ontology, Peter Karp, SRI International.
 
Six talks on Bio-ontologies and Ontology Development Tools

                         Protégé-2000: A Flexible and Extensible
                         Ontology-editing Environment, Natalya Fridman
Noy,
                         Monica Crubézy, Ray W. Fergerson, John H.
Gennari,
                         William E. Grosso,Mark A. Musen, Stanford
University
 
                         Flexible Ontologies in Neuroanatomy for
Knowledge
                         Sharing, John H. Gennari, Natalya F. Noy,
Stanford University
 
                         A Novel Schema to Represent 'Time' in
Biological
                         Events, Hong Yu, Burkhard Rost, Columbia
University

                         Cell Signaling Ontology, Takako Takai-Igarashi,
Toshihisa
                         Takagi, National Institute of Health Sciences
and HGC,
                         Institute of Medical Science, University of
Tokyo
 
                         The Ontology Inference Layer (OIL): A Slick way
to
                         include Semantics in the Web, Carole Goble, Ian
Horrocks
                         and the OIL Consortium, University of
Manchester, UK
 
                         A Knowledge Model for the Analysis and
Simulation of
                         Regulatory Networks, Andrey Rzhetsky, Tomohiro
Koike,
                         Sergey Kalachikov, Shawn M. Gomez, Michael
Krauthammer,
                         Sabina H. Kaplan, Pauline Kra, James R. Russo,
Carol
                         Friedman, Columbia University
  
There will be also be discussions and demonstrations

To register for the astonishingly low price of $35 point your browser to 

http://www.ingenuity.com/bio-ontology  
        
    
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Professor Carole Goble
Information Management Group, 
Department of Computer Science,
University of Manchester, 
Oxford Road, 
Manchester, UK
voice: +44 161 275 6195, 
fax: +44 161 275 6236, 
email: carole@cs.man.ac.uk, 
web: http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/carole             
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