@conference {ICBO_2018_10, title = {ICBO_2018_10: Standardization of the Histopathology Cancer Report: An Ontological Approach}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

In recent years, the complexity of cancer pathology reporting has increased significantly. The pathology report covers not only general information such as the presence or absence of cancer, but includes a collection of specific parameters such as tumor size, grade, margin, lymphatic or vascular involvement as well as molecular testing e.g. proteomics and genomics (Figure 1). Soon, biomarkers and immune profiling will play an increasingly more important role in determining the eligibility for particular therapies, along with genetic predisposition and social risk factors. The increased use of digital pathology, which allows streamlined sharing of images, has highlighted the importance of clear communication of the information displayed in the pathology report. In the past years, significant effort has been devoted to redefining the way that histopathology report information is recorded. The College of American Pathologists (CAP) (http://www.cap.org/), a leading organization of board-certified pathologists, introduced synoptic cancer reports, a structured checklist to standardize clinical documentation. Despite continuous improvement and generation of electronic reports, formal representation [1] is still lacking. This lack of standardization limits the ability to integrate pathology information with other genomic and proteomic data and often results in loss of information.

}, keywords = {Cancer, Histopathology Cancer, Histopathology report, Ontology, pathology, Pathology standard, Tumor}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_10.pdf}, author = {Anna Maria Masci and Shannon McCall and Alessandro Racioppi and Helena Judge Ellis and Jihad S. Obeid and Barry Smith and Christian Stoeckert and Jie Zheng} } @conference {ICBO_2018_15, title = {ICBO_2018_15: Quality Assurance of Ontology Content Reuse}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Building ontologies is difficult and time-consuming. As such, content reuse has been promoted as an important guiding principle in ontology development. Reusing content from other ontologies can reduce the overall effort involved in new ontology construction and provide better alignment with existing knowledge modeling. However, reuse is not a panacea, and it comes with its own attendant difficulties. In this paper, we investigate some common quality assurance issues associated with reuse, such as duplicated content and versioning problems. Some heuristic-based approaches are proposed for analyzing ontologies for these kinds of quality assurance issues. An analysis is carried out on a sample of the large collection of BioPortal-hosted ontologies, many of which employ reuse. The findings indicate that curators and authors, particularly those new to the reuse process, should be on the alert when developing an ontology with reused content to avoid introducing problems into their own ontologies.

}, keywords = {BioPortal, modeling, Ontology, ontology quality assurance, ontology reuse}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_15.pdf }, author = {Michael Halper and Christopher Ochs and Yehoshua Perl and Sivaram Arabandi and Mark Musen} } @conference {ICBO_2018_22, title = {ICBO_2018_22: Reconciling ontology definitions using the Ontology Pattern Reconciliation Workbench and the DOSDP framework}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Many bio-ontologies use formal, logical definitions to automate multiple inheritance classification and drive cross-ontology inference. This requires the use of standardised design patterns: shared patterns of axiomatisation using common reference ontologies. Developing, managing and implementing a suitably consistent set of design patterns can be challenging. In many phenotype ontologies, for example, a large proportion of class terms have formal definitions following a general framework, known as entity/quality (EQ), with common relations and reference ontologies. Despite this, the formal definitions used are often too divergent to drive classification and cross-ontology inference. Here we present software tools for improving and managing formalisation using design patterns. The Ontology Pattern Reconciliation Workbench helps users prioritise patterns for reconciliation between two related ontologies based on the impact pattern reconciliation will have on cross-ontology mapping. An extension to the ontology starter kit provides a practical workflow for developing ontologies using formally specified design patterns.

}, keywords = {entity/quality definitions, logical definitions, ontology design patterns, pattern reconciliation, phenotype ontologies}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_22.pdf }, author = {Nicolas Matentzoglu and David Osumi-Sutherland} } @conference {ICBO_2018_24, title = {ICBO_2018_24: eXtensible ontology development (XOD) using web-based Ontoanimal tools}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

The eXtensible ontology development (XOD) strategy proposes four principles to support interoperable and robust ontology development. These principles include ontology term reuse, semantic alignment, design pattern usage, and community extensibility. In this software demo, we show how Ontoanimal tools (e.g., Ontofox, Ontodog, Ontorat, and Ontokiwi) can be used to support the implementation of these XOD principles. The development of the Cell Line Ontology (CLO) is used for the demonstration.

}, keywords = {Cell Line Ontology, CLO, eXtensible ontology development, Ontodog, Ontofox, Ontokiwi, Ontorat, XOD}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_24.pdf }, author = {Edison Ong and Yongqun He and Jie Zheng} } @conference {ICBO_2018_28, title = {ICBO_2018_28: KTAO: A kidney tissue atlas ontology to support community-based kidney knowledge base development and data integration}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Human kidney has its complex structure and diverse interactions among its cells during homeostasis and in its diseased states. To systematically classify, represent, and integrate kidney gene activity, cell types, cell states, and interstitial components, we developed a Kidney Tissue Atlas Ontology (KTAO). KTAO reuses and aligns with existing ontologies such as the Cell Ontology, UBERON, and Human Phenotype Ontology. KTAO also generates new semantic axioms to logically link terms of entities in different domains. As a first study, KTAO represents over 200 known kidney gene markers and their profiles in different cell types in kidney patients. Such a representation supports kidney knowledge base generation, query, and data integration.

}, keywords = {AKI, atlas, CKD, disease, gene marker, Kidney, KTAO, Ontology}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_28.pdf }, author = {Yongqun He and Becky Steck and Edison Ong and Laura Mariani and Chrysta Lienczewski and Ulysses Balis and Matthias Kretzler and Jonathan Himmelfarb and John F. Bertram and Evren Azeloglu and Ravi Iyengar and Deborah Hoshizaki and Sean D. Mooney} } @conference {ICBO_2018_40, title = {ICBO_2018_40: Human Cell Atlas Ontology}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project aims to build comprehensive reference maps of Human cells that will further our understanding of biological processes and diagnosing and treating disease. We present the Human Cell Atlas Ontology (HCAO), an application ontology that builds and extends from existing ontology standards to provide terminology standards with well-defined semantics for describing experimental data coming into the HCA to ensure the data is interoperable and amenable to integrative analysis.

}, keywords = {application ontology, data interoperability, Human Cell Atlas}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_40.pdf }, author = {Danielle Welter and Simon Jupp and David Osumi-Sutherland} } @conference {ICBO_2018_41, title = {ICBO_2018_41: Formalizing the Representation of Immune Exposures for Human Immunology Studies}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Human immunology studies typically examine how immune exposures associated with vaccinations, infectious, allergic or autoimmune diseases, or transplantations perturb the immune system with the goal to develop diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions. While there are established approaches to formally represent the experimental data generated in such studies, which often comprises gene expression data, flow cytometry data, or serology data, the description of the immune exposures themselves is not well standardized. We here present a formal approach to represent immune exposures at a high level of granularity. We capture the exposure process (e.g. {\textquoteleft}vaccination{\textquoteright} or {\textquoteleft}occurrence of allergic disease{\textquoteright}), exposure material (e.g. {\textquoteleft}Tdap vaccine{\textquoteright} or {\textquoteleft}House dust mite{\textquoteright}), and the associated disease name and stage (e.g. {\textquoteleft}allergic rhinitis{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}chronic{\textquoteright}). This representation scheme has been used successfully in the IEDB and an extended version has been adopted by HIPC to capture studies in ImmPort. We are reporting here on this scheme, our ongoing attempts to map the terms used to existing ontologies, and the challenges encountered.

}, keywords = {disease, Exposure, Immunology, Standardization}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_41.pdf }, author = {Randi Vita and Bjoern Peters and James Overton and Kei-Hoi Cheung and Steven Kleinstein} } @conference {ICBO_2018_46, title = {ICBO_2018_46: Standardizing Ontology Workflows Using ROBOT}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Building and maintaining ontologies can be challenging due to the need to automate a number of common tasks, such as running quality control checks, automatic classification using reasoners, generating standard reports, extracting application-specific subsets, and managing ontology dependencies. These workflows are in some aspects analogous to workflows used in software engineering as part of the normal product lifecycle. However, in contrast to software development, there is a lack of easy to use tooling to support the execution of these workflows for ontology developers

}, keywords = {automation, import management, ontology development, ontology release, OWL, quality control, reasoning, workflows}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_46.pdf }, author = {Rebecca Tauber and James Balhoff and Eric Douglass and Chris Mungall and James A. Overton} } @conference {ICBO_2018_59, title = {ICBO_2018_59: Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies of Informed Consent}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {

Our project brings together a number of OBO Foundry ontologies related to the representation of informed consent, and expands and enriches them, so that they may provide a representation of informed consent across the informed consent (IC) life cycle. The IC lifecycle involves not only documentation of the consent when originally obtained, but actions that require clear communication of permissions from the initial acquisition of data and specimens through handoffs to, for example, secondary researchers, allowing them access to data or biospecimens referenced in the terms of the original consent. This poster details the progress we have made in representing the domain of consent, as well as the future applications that such work can make possible.

}, keywords = {informed consent, informed consent life cycle, ontology collaboration, reference ontology}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2285/ICBO_2018_paper_59.pdf }, author = {J. Neil Otte and Cooper Stansbury and Jonathan Vajda and Frank Manion and Elizabeth Umberfield and Yongqun He and Marcelline Harris and Jihad Obeid and Mathias Brochhausen and William Duncan and Cui Tao} } @conference {ICBO_2018_71, title = {ICBO_2018_71: Comparative functional analysis in plants with Gramene}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2018)}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {08/06/2018}, publisher = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, organization = {International Conference on Biological Ontology}, abstract = {Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is an integrated resource for comparative functional analysis in plants, and provides researchers with access to 53 genomes and pathways for 75 plant species. Gramene includes powerful phylogenetic approaches, such as protein-based gene trees with stable IDs and whole-genome DNA alignments, enabling comparison across plant species. Gramene also provides integrated search capabilities and interactive views to locate and visualize gene features, gene neighborhoods, phylogenetic trees, genetic variation, gene expression profiles, pathways, ontology associations, and curated and orthology-projected pathways. Gramene builds upon Ensembl and Reactome software, and is committed to open access and reproducible science based on FAIR principles. Gramene is supported by an NSF grant IOS-1127112, and from USDA-ARS (1907-21000-030-00D).}, keywords = {annotation, comparative analysis, functional genomics, ontology associations, pathways, plants}, url = {http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/}, author = {Parul Gupta and Justin Preece and Pankaj Jaiswal and Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz and Sharon Wei and Sushma Naithani and Andrew Olson and Joshua Stein and Yinping Jiao and Bo Wang and Sunita Kumari and Young Koung Lee and Vivek Kumar} }