Informatics for Data and Resource Discovery in Addiction Research

Agenda

Day One, Thursday, July 8, 2010

 
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration 
  

Starting With the Basics

 
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.Welcome
David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse
  
8:45 – 9:30 a.m. Using Registries to Expose and Discover Resources and Data: Introduction to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint Neuroscience Information Framework, the Whole Brain Catalogue, Biocatalogue, the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility and Others
Maryann Martone, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation
  
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.Using, Harmonizing and Contributing to Ontologies/Vocabularies for Describing, Reporting and Discovering Data: Introduction to Neurolex, Bioportal and Other Community Based Tools
Maryann Martone, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation
  
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.Break
  

Case Studies for Learning by Example and Experience

  
10:15 – 11:00 a.m.Case Study 1: (NDAR) Providing an Informatics Infrastructure for Storing and Linking Imaging, Genotypic, Clinical Assessment or Other Phenotypic Information in Autism Research: Lessons Learned in Developing and Using the National Database for Autism Research Checklist
Matthew McAuliffe, Ph.D.
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health

Presentation
  
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.Case Study 2: (ODE) The Ontological Discovery Environment: Points to Consider When Populating and Using a Virtual Environment for the Application of High-Performance Computing to Discover Phenotypes Through Integrating Gene Sets Across Species, Tissue and Experimental Platform
Elissa Chesler, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory

Presentation  
  
11:45 – 12:45 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
  
12:45 – 1:30 p.m. Case Study 3: Generating and Reporting Time Oriented Data for Transformation, Retrieval and Abstraction to Discover Temporal Phenomenon: Lessons Learned From Data Repositories for HIV Drug Resistance and Immune Disorder Trial Management
Amar K. Das, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research

Presentation
  
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.Case Study 4: [PD (Parkinson’s Disease) Online, StemBook, Alzheimer’s Research Forum and SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine)] Lessons Learned From Community-Based Approaches for Discovering and Using Data and Resources in Studies of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Timothy Clark, M.S.
Harvard Medical School

Presentation
  
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.Break
  
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.Case Study 5: (NEMO and CARMEN): Theoretical and Practical Integration of Functional Brain Data: Facilitating Integration of EEG/ERP and MEG Experiments Through the Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies Project (NEMO) and Neurophysiology Through the Code Analysis Repository and Modeling for E-Neuroscience (CARMEN) Project
Gwen Frishkoff, Ph.D.
Georgia State University

Presentation  
  

The State of Addiction Research

 
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.NIDA Panel: The State of Current and Future Addiction Research Data: NIDA Harmonization Projects for Genetic Studies and for Clinical Trials
Chaired by John Anderson, Ph.D., Paul Wakim, Ph.D., Ivan Montoya, M.D., Christine Colvis, Ph.D., and Mark Caulder, M.S., M.P.H. from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
  

Speed Talks

  
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.Five-Minute Speed Talks
Attendees speak for five minutes using approximately 5 slides to describe the types of research data and resources they generate and wish to discover, and their current data-sharing and discovery paradigms.

Clint Cushman, B.A.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation

Supriya Mahajan, Ph.D.
University at Buffalo
The State University of New York

Presentation

Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presentation

Adam Joseph Bloom
Washington University in St. Louis

Presentation

Lingling Shen, Ph.D.
Northeastern University

Presentation

Mark Southern, M.S.
The Scripps Research Institute

Presentation

Marcy Jordan, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch

Presentation
  
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.General Discussion
Feedback commentary on speed talks by workshop presenters/instructors and attendees on steps for making presented data more interoperable and more discoverable.  
  
5:30 p.m.Adjourn  
  

Day Two, Friday, July 9, 2010

 
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.Registration 
  
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.Welcome
Karen Skinner, Ph.D.
Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse
  

The Joy of Text

  
8:45 – 9:15 a.m.Discovering Related Research Resources and Data From Unstructured Scientific Literature: Lessons Learned From the NIF Entity Pilot Study for Identifying Antibodies in Research Papers and the NIF ARRA Project for Capturing Supplementary Data From Papers
Maryann Martone, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation
  
9:15 – 10:00 a.m.Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Do We Annotate Publications So That Emergent Knowledge Can Be Discovered Across Open-Access and Proprietary Scientific Publications? Integrating Knowledge and Data Across Web Communities Using the SWAN Annotation Framework
Sudeshna Das, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Presentation
  
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.Break 
  

Getting Practical

  
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.Demonstrations of Registering a Resource for NIF Federation With Actual Data Sets (Including Concept Mapping)
Jeffrey S. Grethe, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation
  
10:45 – 11:15 a.m.Demonstrations of Using DISCO/Biositemaps for Automated Resource Discovery
Jeffrey S. Grethe, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego

Presentation
  

Attendee Speed Talks

  
11:15 – 12:00 p.m. Five-Minute Speed Talks
Attendees speak for five minutes using approximately 5 slides to describe the types of research data and resources they generate and wish to discover, and their current data-sharing and discovery paradigms.

Randall Olsen, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University

Presentation

Annamarie Stehli, M.P.H.
University of California, Irvine

Presentation

Hui-Chen Liu, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Presentation

Thomas Maloney, Ph.D.
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Presentation

Christine Cox, Ph.D.
New York University Child Study Center

Presentation

Kun Huang, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University

Presentation

Richard Meisch, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Presentation

  
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. General Discussion
Feedback commentary on speed talks by workshop presenters/instructors and attendees on steps for making presented data more interoperable and more discoverable.
  
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch (on your own) 
  

Workshop Recommendations Development: Identifying and Implementing Best Practices

  
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.Best Practices: Presenter/Instructor Panel Discussion
Panel members summarize, itemize and rank the most important Best Practices that need to be adopted for accelerating and enhancing resource discovery and data interoperability.

Discussion Leader and Summary Presentation
Erich Baker, Ph.D.
Baylor University
Presentation

Panelists
Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Matthew McAuliffe, Ph.D.,
Elissa Chesler, Ph.D., Gwen Frishkoff, Ph.D., Sudeshna Das, Ph.D., and
Jeffrey S. Grethe, Ph.D.
  
2:15 – 3:00 p.m.Strategies and Recommendations for Implementing Best Practices: General Discussion
All attendees and presenters/instructors discuss strategies and develop workshop recommendations for implementing adoption of Best Practices to accelerate data interoperability and resource discovery within the addiction research community.
  
3:00 p.m.Adjourn