ICBO

Ontologies are being used in a variety of ways by researchers in almost every life science discipline, and their use in annotation of both clinical and experimental data is now a common technique in integrative translational research. Principles-based ontologies are being developed for the description of biological and biomedical phenomena of almost every different type. To be maximally effective, such ontologies must work well together. But as ontologies become more commonly used, the problems involved in achieving coordination in ontology development become ever more urgent. To address these problems there is a need for an overarching conference which brings together representatives of all major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine and related areas. ICBO is designed to meet this need.

ICBO Organizing Committee:

Barry Smith (Chair), University at Buffalo ▪ Suzanna Lewis (Co-Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Michael Ashburner, Cambridge University ▪ Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory

Yves Lussier, University of Chicago ▪ Mark Musen, Stanford University ▪ Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute ▪ Chris Stoeckert, Jr., University of Pennsylvania

ICBO Scientific Committee:

Barry Smith (Chair), University of Buffalo ▪ Suzanna Lewis (Co-Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Michael Ashburner, Cambridge University ▪ Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry ▪ Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory

Olivier Bodenreider, NIH National Library of Medicine ▪ Werner Ceusters, University at Buffalo ▪ Lindsay Cowell, Duke University

Louis J. Goldberg, University at Buffalo ▪ Yves Lussier, University of Chicago ▪ Maryanne Martone, University of California at San Diego

J. L. E. Mejino, Jr., University of Washington ▪ Mark Musen, Stanford University ▪ Christopher Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Darren Natale, Georgetown University ▪ Bjoern Peters, University of California at San Diego ▪ Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute

Alan Rector, University of Manchester ▪ Peter Robinson, Charité Hospital, Berlin ▪ Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute ▪ Richard Scheuermann, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

David States, University of Texas at Houston ▪ Chris Stoeckert, Jr., University of Pennsylvania ▪ Cathy Wu, Georgetown University/University of Delaware

American Medical Informatics Association Working Group in Knowledge Representation and Semantics (KR-MED)

We would also like to acknowledge generous support from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)