Herre Heinrich, Hoehndorf Robert, Kelso Janet, Loebe Frank, Schulz Stefan
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Haertelstrasse 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
J Biomed Semantics. 2011 Aug 9;2 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):I1. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S4-I1.
The OBML 2010 workshop, held at the University of Mannheim on September 9-10, 2010, is the 2nd in a series of meetings organized by the Working Group "Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences" of the German Society of Computer Science (GI) and the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). Integrating, processing and applying the rapidly expanding information generated in the life sciences - from public health to clinical care and molecular biology - is one of the most challenging problems that research in these fields is facing today. As the amounts of experimental data, clinical information and scientific knowledge increase, there is a growing need to promote interoperability of these resources, support formal analyses, and to pre-process knowledge for further use in problem solving and hypothesis formulation.The OBML workshop series pursues the aim of gathering scientists who research topics related to life science ontologies, to exchange ideas, discuss new results and establish relationships. The OBML group promotes the collaboration between ontologists, computer scientists, bio-informaticians and applied logicians, as well as the cooperation with physicians, biologists, biochemists and biometricians, and supports the establishment of this new discipline in research and teaching. Research topics of OBML 2010 included medical informatics, Semantic Web applications, formal ontology, bio-ontologies, knowledge representation as well as the wide range of applications of biomedical ontologies to science and medicine. A total of 14 papers were presented, and from these we selected four manuscripts for inclusion in this special issue.An interdisciplinary audience from all areas related to biomedical ontologies attended OBML 2010. In the future, OBML will continue as an annual meeting that aims to bridge the gap between theory and application of ontologies in the life sciences. The next event emphasizes the special topic of the ontology of phenotypes, in Berlin, Germany on October 6-7, 2011.
2010年9月9日至10日在曼海姆大学举办的OBML 2010研讨会，是由德国计算机科学协会（GI）和德国医学信息学、生物统计学与流行病学协会（GMDS）的“生物医学与生命科学本体论”工作组组织的系列会议中的第二届。整合、处理并应用生命科学领域快速增长的信息——从公共卫生到临床护理再到分子生物学——是这些领域的研究目前面临的最具挑战性的问题之一。随着实验数据、临床信息和科学知识数量的增加，对于促进这些资源的互操作性、支持形式分析以及预处理知识以便在问题解决和假设形成中进一步使用的需求也日益增长。OBML研讨会系列的目标是召集研究与生命科学本体论相关主题的科学家，交流想法、讨论新成果并建立联系。OBML小组促进本体论学者、计算机科学家、生物信息学家和应用逻辑学家之间的合作，以及与医生、生物学家、生物化学家及生物统计学家的合作，并支持在研究和教学中建立这一新学科。OBML 2010的研究主题包括医学信息学、语义网应用、形式本体论、生物本体论、知识表示以及生物医学本体论在科学和医学中的广泛应用。共发表了14篇论文，我们从中挑选了四篇稿件收录在本期特刊中。来自生物医学本体论相关所有领域的跨学科观众参加了OBML 2010。未来，OBML将继续作为年度会议，旨在弥合生命科学中本体论的理论与应用之间的差距。下一次活动将于2011年10月6日至7日在德国柏林举行，重点关注表型本体论这一特殊主题。
