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Thoughts on the ThirdInternational Conference on Biomedical Ontology(ICBO) for the AVIJuly 21-25, 2012Graz, Austria

Suzanne Santamaria, DVM, MSVeterinary Terminologist (and Ontologist)

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Thoughts On Attending the ICBO

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Gained knowledge Made connections Future work/collaboration

ICBO 2012

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Knowledge Organisms almost ubiquitous Ontologies in action Ontology development

and maintenance General advice

portwallpaper.com

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Generate hypothesis Large scale research Predictive pharmacology Access resources Decision support with EHR

Ontologies in action

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Clinical Key Access resources

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Smart Searching System Access resources

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Find ItvideoSmart Slide

video

Disease-Symptom Ontology

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Decision support with EHR

Ontology Development and Maintenance

Check class names Agile ontology engineering Visualization

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BioMixer

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Visualization

General

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 ACO requests, annexes?

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

1. Good experience2. ICBO and OBO are

relevant, important, and evolving Seem open to animal work Animal work already important!

3. 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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ReferencesICBO 2012

http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/icbo.htm Links to papers on left hand side

NCBO Bioportal Multi-ontology browser and visualization, etc. http://bioportal.bioontology.org/

ClinicalKey ClinicalKey: Terminology driven Semantic Search. Sivaram Arabandi

and Helen Moran http://www.clinicalkey.com/

Smart Searching System Smart Searching System for Biomedical Information. Hong-Woo Chun,

et al. http://59.27.71.173/ (intro in Korean; search in English and Korean)

Disease-Symptom Ontology Interpreting Patient Data using Medical Background Knowledge.

Heiner Oberkampf, et al.

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References BioMixer: Visualizing Mappings of Biomedical

Ontologies. Elena Voyloshnikova, et al.

Requirements and Strategy for the Development of a Pediatric Drug Ontology. Rachel Richesson, et al.

OWL Representation of Drug Activities on Biological Systems. Samuel Croset.

Developing the Animals in Context Ontology. Suzanne Santamaria, et al.

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References The SWO Project: A Case Study of Applying

Agile Ontology Engineering Methods in Community Driven Ontologies. Maria Copeland, et al.

Checking Class Labels against Naming Conventions: First experience with the OntoCheck Protégé Plugin. Daniel Schober, et al.

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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