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BiomedGT Collaborative Ontology Development Wiki
(Beta 1 Release - December 2, 2008, patch Jan 16, 2009)

About BiomedGT

The Biomedical Grid Terminology (BiomedGT) is an open, collaboratively developed terminology for translational research. BiomedGT builds on the strengths of the NCI Thesaurus, including concept orientation, description logic, and public accessibility. While the current terminology has been seeded with NCI Thesaurus content, it is being restructured to facilitate open content development. The goal is to evolve BiomedGT into a set of federated sub-terminologies, with content maintained by experts in the relevant research communities.

BiomedGT is registered in the HL7 OID Registry as 2.16.840.1.113883.3.26.1.3.

About This Wiki

The BiomedGT Wiki is a new tool that enables groups of domain experts to collaboratively develop and maintain terminologies, including BiomedGT, subsets of BiomedGT, and other standalone terminologies. This wiki is being developed by the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics and the Mayo Clinic Division of Biomedical Informatics with contributions from Apelon, Inc., Northrup Grumman and Dionne-Associates Inc. We welcome your help in developing terminology in your specialty area and in fine tuning the use of the wiki as a collaborative terminology development tool.

Terminology content developed in this wiki can be transferred to and integrated into the BiomedGT terminology and/or converted into LexGrid format as a stand alone source in order to make it available to the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) community and other interested users. A workflow extension to Protege enables the terminology proposals to be pulled into Protege, integrated or edited, and pushed back to the wiki for collaborator review. Periodic full updates of BiomedGT will also occur.

Becoming a Collaborator

You are welcome to browse this site and search for terminology. If you want to contribute content, you can register as a collaborator by following the instructions on the Registration Process for Collaborators page.

Subscribing to Our Listserv

You can subscribe to a listserv and receive announcements about changes to the wiki, information about support and maintenance, and other newsworthy items. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to [1]. In the body of the message, include the following string:

subscribe biomedgt_wiki-l yourname

Currently Available Terminology Subsets

• BGT - BiomedGT Grid Terminology
• Nano - Nanotechnology Domain Concepts
• CTCAE - Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events
• CRCH Nutrition Terms
• Biospecimen
• Semantic Type
• CTCAE_Category

About Roles, Processes, and Use of This Wiki

• User Roles describes the various roles that BiomedGT users will assume.
• Scenarios Discussion describes various ways that the the BiomedGT wiki is used.
• Data Flows describes data flows in and out of the Wiki.
• Usability Discussion Forum enables collaborators to contribute to a discussion about the usability of the BiomedGT wiki.
• Getting Help provides links to resources and how-to topics.
• BiomedGT Help: Reporting a Bug or Requesting a Feature explains how to use the NCI GForge site to report a bug or request a feature.
• BiomedGT Help: Feedback Page enables you to provide feedback or add items to our TODO list.