Hello All! 
  
The next NCBO Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, Aug 5, at 10am PST. The 
seminar will be presented by Dr. Erich Gombo cz, Vice President, Chief 
Scientific Officer at IO Informatics, Inc. The title of the talk will be 
“Practical use with major implications: Applied Semantic Knowledgebase (ASK™) 
for Predictive Biology.” 

Below is Information on how to join this week’s online meeting and accompanying 
teleconference. Please note there will not be a VOIP option, and attendees must 
call into the teleconference. 

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 week’s 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: Practical use with major implications: Applied Semantic Knowledgebase 
(ASK™) for Predictive Biology 

Abstract:   (A full abstract and speaker bio is available on the NCBO website 
at ( http://www.bioontology.org/videos/ASK.html ) 
Predictive biology has been a major goal for several years, but has been 
hampered by difficulties in meaningful semantic integration of heterogeneous 
experimental and public data, and the difficulty in understanding the complex 
biological functions involved. Building on advanced data access and integration 
capabilities, this talk will present how semantic patterns are used to create 
conclusive network models using virtually any combination of internal 
experimental data and / or external published information. Using SPARQL queries 
to build complex searches across multiple information sets, patterns within and 
between different data types and relationships can be detected, even if the 
initial datasets are not formally joined under any common database schema or 
data federation method. A collection of such models is then placed in an 
Applied Semantic Knowledgebase (ASK) unique to a specific research focus. 
In a live demo using combinatorial biomarkers to categorize treatment-specific 
toxicity responses involving a set of very different biological functions, it 
is shown how ASK makes it possible to actively screen distributed datasets, to 
identify and stratify results – applicable to target assessment, compound 
efficacy, toxicity profiling, disease signatures, clinical trials 
pre-screening, and patient stratification to provide informed decisions in life 
science and personalized medicine. 



Topic: NCBO Seminar Series 
 Date: The 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every 1 months 
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Shauna B. Kanel 
Communications Coordinator & Web Editor 
Stanford University 
Division of Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) 
National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) 

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