The Cell Ontology and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility are holding a joint workshop on the ontological representation of neurons on April 12-13, 2011, at the Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a satellite meeting to be held April 14 to cover technical aspects of ontology development for this domain. This meeting is co-sponsored by the Center for Neuromics at Georgia State University.

The overall goal of this meeting is to improve the representation of neurons in the CL from both the biological and the ontological perspectives. The Cell Ontology is the designated OBO Foundry ontology for the representation of cell types including neurons, and is recognized as such by the INCF PONS task forces. This work will support the goals of the INCF PONS task forces by improving the ontological representation of neurons in general, and CL ontology terms generated through the workshop will be available for use by and incorporation in other Neuroinformatics resources.