The Biositemaps Working Group of the NIH Roadmap National Centers of Biomedical Computing (NCBC) (www.ncbcs.org) has developed technologies to address (i) locating, (ii) querying, (iii) composing or combining, and (iv) mining biomedical resources. Each site which intends to contribute to the inventory instantiates a file on its Internet site 'biositemap.rdf' which conforms to a defined RDF schema and uses concepts from the Biomedical Resource Ontology to describe the resources.

The CTSA Inventory Resource Web Presence (CIRWP) is a federated, inter-institutional project to facilitate resource discovery. The CIRWP project contains informatics and translational resources from over 40 CTSA and NCBC organizations. The project utilizes the categories provided by the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO). Through the CIRWP framework, the BRO facilitates semantic search and discovery of biomedical resources, breaking down barriers to scientific discoveries that will improve human health.

The eagle-i project is building a searchable network of research resources at research institutions nationwide. We are developing an application ontology for indexing and querying, and this effort is being guided by discussions within the ontology community aimed at promoting interoperability. We will be inventorying laboratories, services, instruments, services, reagents, organisms, persons, protocols, human studies (metadata), tissue/biological sample repositories and training opportunities. The eagle-i application ontology is being used to drive our data tool and search applications, and is available in beta form from google code:http://code.google.com/p/eagle-i/

Melissa Haendel, Carlo Torniai

NEMO is developing ontologies for representation and integration of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). To support this work, we are developing an integrated tool environment for storage and management of ERP data, ontologies, and ontology-based markup and analysis of data.

NEMO core (Gwen Frishkoff, Robert Frank, Paea LePendu, Haishan Liu, Dejing Dou, Allen Malony, Jason Sydes, Nathan Dunn); NEMO ERP Consortium (Gwen Frishkoff, Tim Curran, Dennis Molfese, John Connolly, Kerry Kilborn, Chuck Perfetti)