Our team of expert biological curators, augmented by computational tools, maintain and enhance a knowledge extraction and refinement process that delivers an ever-growing set of relevant biological data and its provenance.
We develop and promote the use of shared ontologies to describe knowledge in an open and extensible model that is targeted towards machine reasoning. We develop, adapt and apply innovative scientific knowledge management theory and technology to provide computational semantic bridges between disparate knowledge sources.
We seek to enable bioinformatic reasoning and clinical decision-making using all the species as well as associated bioinformatic data, including genes, phenotypes, chemistry, drugs, and much more.
We have forged a cross-disciplinary team of biologists, ontologists, biocurators and clinicians whose goal is to develop open-source informatics solutions that can transform disease diagnosis and discovery. TISL is not a commercial entity; it is not even a legal entity unto itself, but rather a brand new department within Oregon State University. Most of our staff are still in the process of moving over from the Ontology Development Group at Oregon Health and Sciences University; however, Professor Haendel has a joint appointment 75% at OSU and 25% at OHSU.
Director of Translational Data Science at OSU's Linus Pauling Institute
Director of OHSU's Ontology Development Group
Co-director of the NCATS-funded Biomedical Data Translator at OHSU's Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (OCTRI)
Our core team is based in the beautiful Pacific Northwest at two powerful institutions: Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Sciences University.
Our research facilities are located in the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB) on the Oregon State University campus in the Linus Pauling Institute
Our Oregon Health & Science University research facilities are located at OCTRI in the School of Nursing.
