Hello All! The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce its next online Seminar Series, Wednesday, May 20, at 10am PST. The seminar will be presented by NCBO collaborators Nathan Baker and David Paik. The title of the presentation will be ³caOBR: A tool for indexing cancer informatics resources with Open Biomedical Resources². Below is Information on how to join this week¹s online meeting and accompanying teleconference. Please note there will not be a VOIP option, and attendees must call into the teleconference.
For a schedule of 2009 presentations through June, or for more information about the series, please visit the Seminar Series home page: http://www.bioontology.org/seminar_series.html. Information on how to join this week¹s webinar is given below. To receive information on or to join any future meetings, please contact me at ska...@stanford.edu. This series aims to showcase new projects, technologies and ideas in biomedical ontology by featuring the work of a different collaborator each session. It is a webinar held online, and as such is open to anyone interested, regardless of location or affiliation. The sponsoring organization, the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://www.bioontology.org), is a consortium of leading biologists, clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative technology and methods allowing scientists to create, disseminate, and manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form. We hope to see you there. Title: caOBR: A tool for indexing cancer informatics resources with Open Biomedical Resources Abstract: Cancer nanotechnology is a new approach in the fight against cancer. Nanoparticle vectors have unique physical properties that allow them to be used for early detection, diagnosis, and therapy in almost every type of cancer. This highly interdisciplinary field draws from areas such as materials science, physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and medicine. As a relatively new field, cancer nanotechnology presents a unique opportunity for informatics-driven approaches to accelerate discovery and translation. Nanoparticles consist of 1) a core constituent material, 2) targeting/imaging/therapeutic payloads, and 3) biological surface modifiers; and therefore are inherently combinatorial in nature. This combinatorial nature creates a huge space of possible nanoparticle compositions exceeding any individual¹s cognitive capacity. Informatics tools are a natural fit for addressing this need by providing decision support in the analysis and design of nanoparticles. We are already participating in the design, implementation and curation of the first informatics resource for cancer nanotechnology to explicitly address this nanotechnology informatics need: the caBIG nanoparticle database repository known as caNanoLab. In this DBP, we aim to create a powerful new toolset for information retrieval for cancer nanotechnology-related information using biomedical ontologies. This talk will discuss our initial work towards integrating new sources of nanoparticle data into Open Biomedical Resources (OBR). While OBR supports several existing data sources, none of these contain the detailed nanoparticle information needed by researchers in the cancer nanotechnology field. We propose to provide such information by integrating caNanoLab, a primary source of nanoparticle data for cancer research, with the OBR service. This integration will also lay the groundwork for incorporating a much wider range of biological information from a multitude of caBIG applications via queries over the caGrid. Topic: NCBO Seminar Series Date: The 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco) Meeting Number: 929 613 752 Meeting Password: ncbomeeting Please click the link below to see more information about the meeting or to join the meeting. ------------------------------------------------------- To join the online meeting (Now from iPhones too!) ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://stanford.webex.com/stanford/j.php?ED=108527772&UID=0&PW=24b0550f5903 1e010e3b392722 2. Enter your name and email address. 3. Enter the meeting password: ncbomeeting 4. Click "Join Now". 5. 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To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by clicking this link: https://stanford.webex.com/stanford/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php --- Shauna B. Kanel Communications Coordinator & Web Editor Stanford University Division of Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) Medical School Office Building, Room X-217 251 Campus Drive | Stanford, CA 94305-5101 (650) 736-0786 ska...@stanford.edu
