Reminder: Clinical Pharmacogenomics Telecon (was Re: PK Ontology)

2013-02-05 Thread Matthias Samwald
There is a Clinical Pharmacogenomics telecon scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, 10:15 Eastern Time (remember that we decided to have the telecon a bit earlier). I suggest that we use the teleconference to discuss this! If you have other agenda items to suggest, please add them to the wiki page.

Re: PK Ontology

2013-02-05 Thread Richard Boyce
This is relevant, thanks for finding Bob. Lang Li's group has been doing some interesting work. This ontology is a start in the right direction but has some issues (see below). I would certainly be interested in discussing this and related work on a call. As you know, I would like to lead an e

RE: PK Ontology

2013-02-05 Thread Freimuth, Robert, Ph.D.
URLs to save you time... The article abstract and provisional pdf are available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/35/abstract The ontology is at: http://rweb.compbio.iupui.edu/corpus/ontology/ The PK corpuses that were used are at: http://rweb.compbio.iupui.edu/corpus/ Thanks, Bob

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
Don't know if you're all aware of a number of projects which are trying to crowdsource information about prior art or otherwise working in order to help combat such cases: http://www.pubpat.org http://patents.stackexchange.com https://www.eff.org/patent-busting?t=1 http://peertopatent.org http://w

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, James Gosling proved that you can patent the light switch: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=44&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22gosling,+james%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22gosling,+james%22&RS=IN/%22gosling,+james%22

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Luciano, Joanne S.
Yes, wow. And what are the implications? It is an application, which isn't the same as a patent. It's not clear to me that it would be granted because, if I recall correctly, it has to not be obvious how to do it to someone who practices in the field. My patents are from 2000 and 2001, so it'

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Herber
I would think apache UIMA project and discussions of use cases in public cover mapping of extracted knowledge to an ontology. I can find really old articles on it, when IBM apparently owned the technology before handing it over to Apache, that involve semantic web technology. http://ebiquity.umbc

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Herber
I believe Rescentris' CERF ELN did much of this. It was publicly available product launched prior to 2004. The company has since been bought, but with a bit of digging you could probably find the original founders. Kind Regards, Jim Herber On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Robert Stevens
Who'd have thought it? I've not seen one of those before. On 05/02/2013 09:44, Mark Wilkinson wrote: I have no words... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0030827.html Semantic Interoperability System for Medicinal Information United States Patent Application 20130030827 M -- Robe

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread James Malone
Yeah... good luck to them with all that. They might have been better spending their $5000 at Disney World; at least in there fantasy is welcomed. On 05/02/2013 11:02, RebholzSchuhmann wrote: You may want to have a look at this one too: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0259459.html -

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread RebholzSchuhmann
You may want to have a look at this one too: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0259459.html -drs- On 05/02/2013 09:44, Mark Wilkinson wrote: I have no words... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0030827.html Semantic Interoperability System for Medicinal Information United States

Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Wilkinson
I have no words... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0030827.html Semantic Interoperability System for Medicinal Information United States Patent Application 20130030827 M -- Dr. Mark D. Wilkinson Isaac Peral Senior Researcher, Biological Informatics Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica