Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences - a couple of more examples

2012-01-26 Thread Mark
In case you hadn't seen it already (I hope I didn't already send this!): and I hope that Alice and I will soon be able to demonstrate wet-lab proof of an interaction that I found using the IO Informatics Sentient Explorer, after formatting the data using SW standards (so that I could dyna

RE: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences - a couple of more examples

2012-01-26 Thread Robert Stanley
Nice comment Amit. Many HCLS / systems biology and precision medicine use cases move from theoretically possible but not practically achievable (note historically failed or "re-aligned" HCLS information sharing and disease surveillance standards), to efficiently achievable using semantic t

[bioportal-announce] BioPortal 3.6 Released

2012-01-26 Thread Ray Fergerson
We are pleased to announce the release of BioPortal 3.6. This was mostly a bug-fix release but there was one major new feature: * Created "alternate entry points" for BioPortal. These URL's limit the ontologies that are visible in BioPortal, allowing users to focus on a shared, smaller set o

Re: TMO @ Bio-IT World

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:51:24 -0800, Jim McCusker wrote: and tools like SADI provide discoverability and potential for "linked algorithms" in the cloud. Thanks for that, Jim!!! Mark -- Dr. Mark Wilkinson Associate Professor, Medical Genetics PI Bioinformatics, Institute for Heart and

Re: TMO @ Bio-IT World

2012-01-26 Thread Jim McCusker
Relatedly, not to toot my own horn, but I'm going to be speaking at the Molecular Tri Con Cloud Computing Symposium on biomedical semantics in the cloud: http://www.triconference.com/cloud-computing/ I'm going to be arguing that: LOD is a valid part of "the cloud" and talk about the biomedical L

TMO @ Bio-IT World

2012-01-26 Thread Michel Dumontier
Hi all, I just had a look at the schedule for Bio-IT World ( http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/) Congrats to Elgar Pichler who will be giving a talk on "Building and Using an Ontological Framework for Drug Discovery to Clinical Data" http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Bio-It_Expo_Content.aspx?id=104612

Second CfP: 18th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)

2012-01-26 Thread Annette ten Teije
Call for Papers: 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012) National University of Ireland Galway Quadrangle October 8-12, 2012. http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is co