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SUMMARY:Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology - Prof. Warren Kibbe (Nort
 hwestern University) &amp\; Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medi
 cine)
DTSTART:20080619T101000Z
DTEND:20080619T105000Z
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CONTACT:Dominic Clark
DESCRIPTION:During the past 5 years we have assembled an open source frame
 work for a human disease ontology based on OBO principles. The development
  itself has been use case driven (mapping disease to billing and EMR data 
 in clinical records being the original use cases). The Disease Ontology (D
 O) has gone through three major revisions\, with each overcoming substanti
 al limitations of the previous version. The initial DO was designed primar
 ily around ICD codes\, the second was based on SNOMED\, MeSH and UMLS\, an
 d the third was a reorganization of those terms along more clinically rele
 vant axes\, those axes being anatomical location\, environment\, infectiou
 s agent and aberrant process. DO needs to and is actively moving towards b
 uilding  a community of mutual invested members\, most likely with multipl
 e communities of practice growing and evolving around specific areas or vi
 ewpoints of disease. We also recognize the importance of linking signs and
  symptoms (phenotype) with disease\, and providing a framework for linking
  phenotype through disease to genetic information. 
LOCATION:WTCC\, Hinxton
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