Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Joanne Luciano
This if interest in science news: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337088/title/Network_analysis_predicts_drug_side_effects Sent from my iPad 2 On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:39, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for evidence I can quote to convince non-experts of th

No TERM call this week or next

2011-12-22 Thread John Madden
Because of the holidays, we will not have a TERM call on 12/23 or 12/30. We'll start up again on January 6. John

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Richard Boyce
I realized that the reference to NIH Reporter did not take folks to the actual page that reports NIH funded studies using the SW tools ant tech. Attached is a CSV file listing active projects (15) and another with pubs from these projects. This I think is one of the most concrete measures of im

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, I think to make a case for use of Semantic Web technologies one has to distinguish solution providers and companies which actually make use of these technologies, better if in mission critical operations. So sponsors won't bring that far. Except that, of course, being able to cite that Orac

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Achille Zappa
Hello, On 21/12/2011 17.39, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I am looking for evidence I can quote to convince non-experts of the significance of applying Semantic Web to biomedical research, especially computational cell biology. I need a recorded public statement from a source r

RE: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Michael Miller
hi all, indeed an interesting question, some great replies. most of the companies i've seen making use of semantic technologies aren't necessarily focused on life sciences, they are more generally focused on business intelligence. but their technologies can also provide benefits to life sciences

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, I think any proposal in terms of "you can do something you could no do before" is tricky. Theoretically, we are still dealing with Turing Machines ;) More seriously, the issue is not doing something you couldn't do with other technologies, but: - do something with less resources than other

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, It would be interesting to setup a list of companies which makes a mission-critical use of semantic-web technologies. This could start to be some good evidence on the impact of these technologies. Does anybody knows if such a list exists ? STI people have a list of Semantic Web companies, but

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Olivier, this is similar to the Ontolog forum main topic for 2011 "making the case for ontologies"; a bit closer to those discussions we had the OCAS (Ontologies Come of Age in the Semantic Web) workshop. I have found it difficult to make the case for semantic technologies with mainstream tech peop

RE: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Waard, Anita de A (ELS-NYC)
Oliver, Elsevier uses semantic technologies (i.e. OWL ontologies, a Linked Data Repository, metadata in RDF) throughout all of our content management, search and annotation systems. If OWL/RDF were to evaporate tomorrow, our products (including the Cell and other cell biology publications) woul

Re: TM conference call -- cancelled

2011-12-22 Thread Matthias Samwald
Several people sent their regrets, so we will cancel the teleconference today. I suggest we coordinate further action via the mailing list or Google Group. The next teleconference will be on January 5 next year. Cheers, Matthias From: Matthias Samwald Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:04 P

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi Oliver, I think it's hard to find this form of "breakthrough evidence" and this may even be counterproductive to convince people. If you present a high-level, breakthrough result (say, we save lives), than you leave two open questions: - how much of this is dependent on the computational supp

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Richard Boyce
NCRR statement: http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/publications/ncrr_reporter/winter-spring2011/leveraging.asp Also, NIH reporter lists 15 funded grants using SW: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter_searchresults.cfm -Rich On 12/22/2011 08:19 AM, Helena Deus wrote: That's a good point. But my ar

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Helena Deus
That's a good point. But my argument, and borrowing Jeff Bezos words (when he introduced amazon cloud technologies to the world), is that "Semantic web technologies does the muck so that physicians and life sciences researchers don't have to"! On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Matthias Samwald < m

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Matthias Samwald
Hi Lena, "Although this was not achieved using the LODD cloud or semantic web technologies, it illustrates the same type of network analysis that we are trying to enable for linked life sciences and health care data. " Then it is a problematic example -- after all this could also be interpreted

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Helena Deus
Hi Oliver, Related example: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337088/title/Network_analysis_predicts_drug_side_effects?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews “To clear some of the haze surrounding side effects, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston creat