The University of Manchester School of Computer Science has offered to host a workshop for those who are interested in improving the OWL semantics of BioPAX. Manchester can accommodate a few additional participants at this informal workshop.
Here's the details:
Why:
Because the Manchester group has extensive experience in biomedical ontologies and OWL, working with them presents a valuable opportunity for the BioPAX community to benefit from their expertise.
What:
Review the BioPAX specification and develop OWL compliant proposals to address the following issues:
Enabling data integration through automated reasoning
Representation of signal transduction networks
Gene regulation
Molecular state and generics
Defining semantics of pathways
Working with external ontologies like those in OBO
When:
April 3, through April 7, 2006
Where:
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Who:
Members of the BioPAX community who are interested in utilizing OWL to represent biological information.
The Manchester group has requested that the group remain small, so we have room for only a few more people. In order to make the most effective use of their time participants should have existing experience with OWL. To ensure we are all at the same level we will teleconference weekly to compare notes as we work through a set of OWL exercises.
Confirmed Manchester CS participants: MikelEgañaAranguren, ![[WWW]](/wiki/modern/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
Nick Drummond, AndyGibson, Matthew Horridge, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens.
Confirmed BioPAX participants: OlivierHubaut, ChristianLemer, Joanne Luciano, Alan Ruttenberg, Andrea Splendiani, JeremyZucker.
How:
At the meeting we will work from use cases on the BioPAX wiki, build models, translate pathway data into them and see what breaks. For those who can't attend but are interested, we'll post progress as we work on the biopax-discuss list.
There is no cost for participating, however no funds are currently available for travel or accommodations.
If any of you are aware of sources of the relatively small amounts of funds needed to fund participants, it would be helpful to identify them.
If you are interested in participating, please send mail to ![[MAILTO]](/wiki/modern/img/moin-email.png){kind=small}
BioPAX-Manchester@googlegroups.com and consider joining http://groups.google.com/group/BioPAX-Manchester
The Manchester group's interest in BioPAX has grown out of Joanne Luciano's work with them over the last 3 years. We gratefully acknowledge their support.
Workshop Organization
Joanne Luciano, JonathanRees, AlanRuttenberg and JeremyZucker