<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>A small group of around 40 people came together at the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester for the Ontologies Workshop, chaired by Alan Rector and
Robert Stevens. The workshop was, rather strangely, spread over 2 half days. In
hindsight, this programme worked very well as it gave people the opportunity
to chat over a drink on the Saturday evening and share ideas, before launching
into the second half on the following day. The participants were from various
walks of life, all with a common interest in finding out more about ontologies
and promoting collaborations between the medical informatics and bioinformatics
ontology communities.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Oct; 3(5):447-450