1. OBI – Standard Semantic
International collaboration
Communities developing ontologies/terminologies
Unambiguous description of how the investigation was performed
Consistent annotation, powerful queries and data integration
Describe the laboratory workflow
Set of universal terms
- Investigation (organization, intent, design etc)
Material (biological and chemical, manipulation and transformation)
- Protocols and instrumentations
Data generated and types of analysis performed on it
Set of biological and technological domain-specific terms
- To meet the annotation requirements of any given community
Interoperable with existing bio-ontology
Part of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry

2. OBI – Standard Semantic
Activities and timelines
Branches editors collecting terms for the communities (ONGOING)
Normalize terms, add metadata tags (e.g. definition and source)
Place into the top level classes
4th Workshop for Coordinator and Developers (JULY 07)
- Finalize the first OBI Core
Release of a stable OBI Core (AUGUST 07)
- Out to more communities for testing and suggestions
Documentation and first publication (OCTOBER 07)
- Dissemination and recruitment of new communities