ROC_Cambridge_2009.html

ROC Meeting in Cambridge, England - January 5 and 6, 2009

Description and Discussion of RNAO:

http://roc.bgsu.edu/ROC_Cambridge/RNAO_Notes.pdf

ROC Cambridge Agenda:

http://roc.bgsu.edu/ROC_Cambridge/ROC_Cambridge_Agenda.pdf

The ROC meeting in Cambridge will begin on January 5 at 9:00 a.m. and will end January 6 at 5:00 p.m. For those who plan to attend, we ask that you commit to prepare for the meeting by reading some introductory material on Formal Ontologies and the use of Protégé (see the links below) as well as taking time to review RNAO version 1.0. Here is the link for current version of the RNAO and this will be updated periodically until the meeting in Cambridge: http://code.google.com/p/rnao/downloads/list

Introduction to Protégé and OWL (Use Version 4.0, located on the right side of the webpage):

http://www.co-ode.org/resources/tutorials/protege-owl-tutorial.php

Introduction to Ontologies:

http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/Ontology_Course.html

Introduction to Quality and Is_a Relations (by Ingvar Johansson):

Travel Arrangements for Cambridge Meeting:

Flight Arrangements:

The flight can be taken care of up front, but any other travel expenses may have to be reimbursed after the fact. To make your flight arrangements, please contact Janet McClary at #419-352-1215 or via email: Janet@millstreamtravel.com. Be sure to let Janet know that you are part of the ROC. Please be sure to let Jesse Stombaugh (jstomba@bgsu.edu) know that you are planning to attend or else your ticket will not get processed and we will also need this information for your accomodations.

Transportation to Cambridge:

When making your flight arrangements, please also have Janet purchase your bus tickets to and from Cambridge or else you will have file reimbursement forms to cover your expense. Bus tickets can also be purchased through National Express. Once in Cambridge, you will need to take a taxi or use public transportation to get to Selwyn College.

Alternatively, you can make your own arrangements using the following information:

Heathrow to Cambridge: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/contact/directions/directions.html#byplane

Accomodations:

We have blocked off 25 single rooms at Selwyn College, so you will not need to make hotel reservations or contact Selwyn College. As long as you are on the following list, you will have a room.

Current list of Participants (12/15/08):
Colin	Batchelor	Royal Society of Chemistry
Alex	Bateman	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Pfam/Rfam)
Eckart	Bindewald	National Cancer Institute - Center for Cancer Research
Amanda	Birmingham	Dharmacon
Thomas	Bittner	SUNY, Buffalo
Janusz	Bujnicki	International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
Jennifer	Daub	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Pfam/Rfam)
Kirill	Degtyarenko	Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI)
Alain	Denise	Universite Paris-Sud 11 and CNRS
Karen	Eilbeck	University of Utah
Gary	Kapral	Duke University
Wojciech	Kasprzak	National Cancer Institute - Center for Cancer Research
Kevin	Keating	Yale University
Rob	Knight	University of Colorado
Alain	Laederach	Wadsworth Center
Neocles	Leontis	Bowling Green State University
Josh	Martin	Wadsworth Center
Chris	Mungall	Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects
Laura	Murray	Duke University
Anton	Petrov	Bowling Green State University
Jane	Richardson	Duke University
Kristian	Rother	International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
Jesse	Stombaugh	Bowling Green State University
Jerome	Waldispuhl	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Craig	Zirbel	Bowling Green State University