Hi everyone,
Please take a look at www.alzforum.org, the Alzheimer Research Forum
web site. This is a "knowledge hub" focusing on Alzheimer disease
research and related major neurodegenerative diseases, including
Parkinson's, Huntington's, ALS, prion diseases, etc. There are dozens
of potential use cases involving data that we curate on this site and
data that we link to (or would like to) to semantically enrich
Alzforum data. We work very closely with scientists (primarily in
Boston) and collaborate with Tim Clark's group at MGH on the SWAN
project.
June
On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:46 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:
Dear All,
In the BIORDF teleconference on Monday March 6, 2006, we
established the desire to "ground" eventual demo(s) in a specific
research question or "application". Ideally, an experimental
context would focus Data-to-RDF translation activities within a
particular use case. For example, a *specific* research or clinical
question could lead to the data integration of the specific
datasets needed to address the question and thus allow us to
proceed with the minimal semantics needed to "cover" the question
utilizing the select datasets. Such a data integration experiment
could lead to a demo.
Noting that neuroscience has a strong representation in HCLSIG, a
research question in that area should have a wide appeal. Some
people with expertise/research on Huntington's Disease (HD) are in
or associated with the BIORDF group, including the University of
Amsterdam[1] and Joanne Luciano, who also performed HD research in
recent years.
Our question is whether there are others associated with HCLSIG
that have knowledge of or ties to active research in HD that would
make their scientific expertise available to HCLSIG (and BIORDF, in
particular). Or is there active research in other areas through
HCLSIG association (Alzheimer's or Parkinson's for example) that
would make their expertise available, have the appropriate coverage
in available datasets and would therefore make a better context for
the demo? The BioRDF group seeks suggestions and input from the
broader HCLSIG community. One important factor in the choice of use
case question is an understanding of and access to data that we can
use to ask meaningful questions.
We would like to discuss this issue during the HCLSIG
teleconference on Thursday.
-scott
[1] http://integrativebioinformatics.nl/projects/hd/huntingtons.html
