Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital (tim_clark@harvard.edu, sudeshna_das@harvard.edu)

MIND Informatics develops social and semantic web applications and ontologies for biomedical research, focusing on scientific communications and data in neuroscience and stem cell research.  

Among many projects since 2004, we developed the Pain Research Forum (http://painresearchforum.org), PD Online (http://pdonlineresearch.org), and StemBook (http://www.stembook.org); the SWAN (http://www.w3.org/TR/hcls-swan/) and AO (http://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/) ontologies; the SWAN Alzheimer Knowledge Base (http://hypothesis.alzforum.org); and the eXFrame genomic experiment repository for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (http://bloodprogram.hsci.harvard.edu/). 

MIND Informatics is collaborating with Dataverse, the ISA-Tab project at the University of Oxford (http://isa-tools.org/) and PLoS Computational BIology to develop domain specific metadata for biomedical experiments in Dataverse.