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The OBI Consortium
The OBI project is an international, collaborative effort to build an ontology to be used for annotation of Biomedical Investigations. The OBI Consortium is the name under which the OBI project authors its work. Membership is detailed below.

OBI Coordinating Committee (Community Representatives, Core Developers)
Please note that the starting date of a CC member is the date they started in the Coordinating Committee, and not the overall date of joining OBI, which could be earlier.
OBI Community Representatives
The representives of the communities participating in the development of OBI.
CommunityNameCommunity AffiliationInstitutional AffiliationStart DateEnd Date
Bio-Imaging Jeff Grethe Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Coordinating Center University of California, San Diego Winter 2007  
Daniel Rubin Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) National Center for Biomedical Ontology at Stanford Medical Informatics and the Department of Radiology, Stanford University Winter 2007  
Bill Bug Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Laboratory of Bioimaging and Anatomical Informatics, in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine Spring 2006  
Cellular Assays Stefan Wiemann   DKFZ   
Clinical Investigations Jennifer Fostel Ontology for Clinical Investigations NIEHS, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Spring 2004  
Tina Hernandez-Boussard   Department of Genetics, Stanford Medical School Fall 2007  
Richard Scheuermann Ontology for Clinical Investigations University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in in Department of Pathology and Division of Biomedical Informatics Winter 2007  
Crop Sciences Richard Bruskiewich Generation Challenge Programme IRRI    
Electrophysiology Frank Gibson CARMEN School of Computing Science, Newcastle University Spring 2007  
Environmental Omics Norman Morrison   NERC Environmental Bioinformatic Centre and School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester Spring 2004  
Flow Cytometry Ryan Brinkman ISAC and FICCS British Columbia Cancer Research Center and University of British Columbia in the Department of Medical Genetics , Vancouver, BC, Canada Spring 2004  
Genomics/Metagenomics Dawn Field Genome Catalogue NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Winter 2005  
Tanya Gray Winter 2005  
Immunology Richard Scheuermann ImmPort, FICCS, BioHealthBase University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in in Department of Pathology and Division of Biomedical Informatics Spring 2006  
Bjoern Peters Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology Spring 2006  
In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Eric Deutsch MISFISHIE      
Metabolomics Susanna Sansone MSI, The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL, NET Project Spring 2004  
Daniel Schober Spring 2006  
Neuroinformatics Bill Bug Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Laboratory of Bioimaging and Anatomical Informatics, in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine Spring 2006  
Frank Gibson CARMEN School of Computing Science, Newcastle University Spring 2007  
Nutrigenomics Philippe Rocca-Serra RSBI The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL, NET Project Spring 2004  
Polymorphism Tina Hernandez-Boussard PharmGKB Department of Genetics, Stanford Medical School Winter 2006 Fall 2007
Proteomics Susanna Sansone PSI The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL, NET Project Spring 2004  
Daniel Schober Spring 2006  
Luisa Montecchi The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL Spring 2006  
Chris Taylor    
Trish Whetzel   Spring 2004  
Frank Gibson School of Computing Science, Newcastle University Spring 2007  
Structural Biology / Structural Bioinformatics John Westbrook Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University Winter 2007/8  
Toxicogenomics Jennifer Fostel Toxicogenomics NIEHS, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Spring 2004  
Susanna Sansone RSBI The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL, NET Project Spring 2004  
Transcriptomics Susanna Sansone MGED The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL, NET Project Spring 2004  
Philippe Rocca-Serra Spring 2004  
Trish Whetzel   Spring 2004  
Chris Stoeckert Department of Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania Spring 2004  
Gilberto Fragoso NCI Center for Bioinformatics Spring 2004  
Joe White      
Helen Parkinson The European Bioinformatics Institute EBI-EMBL Spring 2004  
Mervi Heiskanen      
Liju Fan Ontology Workshop, LLC, Columbia, MD, USA Spring 2004  
Helen Causton Imperial College Spring 2004  

OBI Core Developers
Core Developers are considered key to the evolution of the ontology, but may or may not be members of any single community.
NameProject AffiliationsInstitutional AffiliationStart Date in CD RoleEnd Date
Melanie Courtot Flow Cytometry, SBO, BioModels British Columbia Cancer Research Center and University of British Columbia in the Department of Medical Genetics, Vancouver, BC, Canada Fall 2007  
Allyson Lister RSBI, Genome Catalogue, SyMBA, FuGE CISBAN Summer 2007  
Alan Ruttenberg The Neurocommons Science Commons Fall 2007  
Daniel Schober   EBI Fall 2007  
James Malone EMERALD EBI Fall 2007  
Project Affiliations are associations of the developer to other projects relevant to OBI.

OBI Developers Working Group
The Developers Working Group consists of all developers within the communities collaborating in the development of OBI, at the discretion of current OBI Consortium members.
  • Kevin Clancy
  • Christian Cocos
  • Jay Greenbaum
  • Pierre Grenon
  • Elisabetta Manduchi (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Chris Mungall
  • Matthew Pocock
  • Holger Stenzhorn

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