Hello Harsha:

Thanks for your email and we would be interested in collaborating with 
you. Such a collaboration and community approach is a core value in our 
mission and philosophy - OpenTox is also an Open Community.

What particular aspects of the ontology work are relevant to your 
research? What directions have you for your thesis work? If you can give 
more insight on your work, we could get clearer how to work better with you.

I enclose here a copy of our initial ontology report from February this 
year.  We have subsequently successfully mapped several databases to 
ToxML schema and have agreed to support and develop the standard as part 
of the OpenTox data archictecture.  Our intial API specs should be 
cleaned up on the website in a few days, and we will send a notice out.

You will also note the vocabulary work of IBMC in Appendix D.  Other 
partners (ISS, Fraunhofer, Ideaconsult) have also being working on the 
data resources area for OpenTox.

We are currently building a new Plone-based website which is currently 
in beta and have agreed to include a community-based vocabulary area for 
contributions from all members in the community there, but subject to 
curation and scientific review.  So it will kind of be like a 
peer-reviewed wikipedia on predictive toxicology. 

We could also setup a virtual conference later this summer to get 
introduced to you, ... and it could be good to have a discussion focus 
on the ontology work.

best regards
Barry

Barry Hardy PhD
Director, Community of Practice & Research Activities
and OpenTox Project Coordinator (http://www.opentox.org/)
Douglas Connect LLC, Switzerland
Email: barry.hardy at douglasconnect.com
Tel: +41 61 851 0170

Harsha Gurulingappa wrote:
> Dear Dr. Barry Hardy;
>
> I am a PhD student from Bonn University working in the area of Biomedical
> data mining and text mining. Looking at the recent progress and
> developments at OpenTox, something that was fascinating for me was Tox
> Ontology development. Could you please let me know if there are any
> opportunities that I can work together with the experts at OpenTox. Is
> there any possibility for our team to make a joint collaboration within
> OpenTox?
>
>
> Thank You
> Harsha Gurulingappa
> Doctoral Fellow
> SCAI B-IT
>
>   

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