Project: Creation of 1Data Ontology Fostering Data Sharing in Human and Animal Health Analytics

Project: Creation of 1Data Ontology Fostering Data Sharing in Human and Animal Health Analytics

Overview

As defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "The goal of One Health is to encourage the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines-working locally, nationally and globally-to achieve the best health for people, animals and our environment."

However, the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Animal Health Working Group noted that interoperability between data sources was an impediment to such efforts, and therefore they created as a goal to "d evelop a computational concept to advance translational medicine approaches for human and animal health." We are creating the 1Data framework and database to solve this critical need in animal and human health analytics research and training.

The 1Data database is a collection of disparate data from various organizations worldwide. The main focus of the database is to accumulate diverse datasets from human and animal genomic, health and clinical science organizations to facilitate translational research efforts. By assimilating this data into one relational database, we can resolve the genomic relationship between animals in humans and the impact that data could have on the health sciences.

This framework also will allow for the development of a shared ontology that links human and animal health data — an ontology that, despite the proliferation of ontologies in the health sciences over the past two decades, still doesn't exist. Our goal is to utilize the accumulated, disparate data within the 1Data environment to create and train a neural network that will allow the rapid development and, perhaps more importantly, ongoing updating of this ontology.

The 1Data project is supported by data collected from a large number of public and private data sources and has received support from a number of KC-area institutions. Its formation is the result of a unique bi-state collaboration between UMKC and KSU, housed at KSU-Olathe.