Musen Lab

Mark Musen studies the development of semantic technology for use in biomedicine.  A long-standing interest in clinical decision-support systems has stimulated investigation of computational frameworks to make decision-support systems more useful and more maintainable.  This work has led to the EON architecture, which has provided the basis for the ATHENA-CDS and GLINDA projects.  His group investigates mechanisms for improving ontology engineering in the Protégé system, and applies these results in the construction of real-world applications.  He assists the WHO in the development of ICD-11 and other international classifications, and, in the context of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, creates computational infrastructure used by the biomedical informatics community broadly to build and disseminate ontologies and controlled terminologies.