Thank you for sharing this news - excellent. As the federal Health IT Ontology
Project (HITOP) Group works toward identifying high priority health IT
applications as collaboration projects for testing ontology software tools,
these prominent institutes will form a foundation of knoweldge and source of
potential project opportunities.
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That good news indeed, Mark. (03)
Congratulations! =ppy
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Mark Musen wrote Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:53:11 -0700:
> Friends, (05)
> As many of you know, part of the Roadmap initiative of the National
> Institutes of Health (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/) includes major
> support for biomedical computation through, among other mechanisms, the
> creation of National Centers for Biomedical Computing
> (http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/index.cfm).
> The NIH just announced the three
> new National Centers to be created this year, and one of them will be a
> "National Center for Biomedical Ontology"
> (see see http://www.bioontology.org). (06)
> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is being founded by a
> consortium that brings together the Protégé group at Stanford, the
> informatics team of the Gene Ontology Consortium centered at Berkeley,
> the informatics group at the Mayo Clinic responsible for the Common
> Terminology Services standard promoted by HL7, the ontology group in
> the Department of Philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo, and several other
> collaborating centers. Together, we will develop new technology for
> managing libraries of biomedical ontologies, for indexing, aligning,
> and annotating biomedical ontologies, and for facilitating peer review
> of online knowledge resources in both clinical medicine and the life
> sciences. We also plan to develop technology to help biologists to use
> ontologies, primarily in the area of annotating large data sets. We
> are planning outreach activities to help biomedical scientists in the
> development and refinement of ontologies in particular domains. (07)
> The NIH roadmap initiative includes set-aside funds to encourage
> investigators at other institutions to collaborate with the National
> Centers for Biomedical Computation
> (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-063.html)
> This grant mechanism might provide a
> very tangible way to fund projects of importance to Ontolog. (08)
> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology, with its primary
> administrative site at Stanford, involves several investigators who
> also are involved in the National Center for Ontological Research
> (http://ncor.us), which has previously been announced on this forum.
> The two Centers have distinct missions, but should be extremely
> synergistic. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is an NIH-
> funded entity with the primary aim of creating specific technologies to
> promote the management and application of ontologies in biomedicine.
> The National Center for Ontological Research is an umbrella
> organization that will be seeking funding from a variety of sources to
> promote the application of ontologies in a wide range of disciplines
> and to offer educational programs to encourage sound principles of
> ontology design. (09)
> We are extremely excited that the NIH has recognized the importance of
> ontologies in biomedical research through the funding of our new
> Center. It makes us feel that ontologies are almost becoming mainstream!
>
> Mark
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