RE: Proposal from the BioRDF Sub-Group

[davide]

Thanks Susie, I’m wondering if we are going to include free-text as a data source to be RDF/OWL-integrated. This should also be cleared with the other sub-sub group (Bob Futrelle) which is going along the same lines. I would like to propose that we include nlp in our demo since the data integration result would be more convincing and I volunteer to support that part specifically. If that’s ok I can edit the draft accordingly.   Davide     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias Samwald Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:44 PM To: Susie Stephens; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org Subject: Re: Proposal from the BioRDF Sub-Group   I'm working on a PhD thesis that encompasses the use of OWL in neuroscience, so I might be of help for your project. At the moment we are converting existing data from neuroscientific databases (Ki database, ligand gated ion channel database, IUPHAR receptor database and others). These sources are a mixture of relational databases, XML and plain text. I have extended the BioPAX OWL ontology to represent the concepts of these databases, but the conversion of real data is still far from complete.   Further extensions could include the conversion of the cell centered database (microscopic images of neurons), OMIM (hereditary diseases) and some psychopharmacological databases. This would result in ontologies that span "from bench to bedside", as postulated in the proposal.   The BioRDF proposal sounds really interesting and has much in parallel with the work I am doing, so I am looking forward to contribute to this endeavour!   kind regards, Matthias   http://neuroscientific.net/       > I've attached the draft proposal from the BioRDF sub-group. > > > Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. > > > Once we have everyone's feedback, lets schedule a call to discuss > action items. > > Cheers, > > > Susie