Mark, (01)
Thanks for sharing this opportunity for making Ontology a mainstream topic
in health care and eventually business/ government. (02)
Looking forward to working on outreach and policy projects. (03)
Regards, (04)
Bob (05)
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] National Center for Biomedical Ontology (06)
Friends, (07)
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). (08)
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. (09)
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. (010)
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. (011)
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! (012)
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