Re: SQL to RDF access ?

2015-10-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
it helps, > -R > > On 10/02/2015 07:37 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am wondering if some of you knows of some tool that can translate (a >> subset) of SQL to SPARQL (perhaps requiring some constraints on the RDF >> representation). >

Re: SQL to RDF access ?

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Splendiani
t;>> >>> Mikel >>> >>> 2015-10-02 14:34 GMT+02:00 Richard Boyce : >>> >>>> Hi Andrea, I think that D2R Server is very helpful here: >>>> http://d2rq.org/d2r-server >>>> >>>> All can be done with a mapping

Re: SQL to RDF access ?

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Splendiani
: >> >>> Hi Andrea, I think that D2R Server is very helpful here: >>> http://d2rq.org/d2r-server >>> >>> All can be done with a mapping file that you configure. The server >>> provides a SPARQL web query interface (SNORQL) but also can dump to an

SQL to RDF access ?

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I am wondering if some of you knows of some tool that can translate (a subset) of SQL to SPARQL (perhaps requiring some constraints on the RDF representation). In principle it should be simple: classes can appear as tables, URIs as IDs, datatype properties as columns and object properties as F

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
gh. best, Andrea On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes < soiland-re...@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > On 22 September 2014 14:19, Andrea Splendiani > wrote: > > ok, so it seems our representations are pretty much aligned, except for > the > > &q

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
land-Reyes < soiland-re...@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > On 22 September 2014 12:59, Andrea Splendiani > wrote: > > Ho, > > a related question: > > hasPreviousVersion: what does it have for domain/range ? > > I would use this relations as a predicate on version

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
; I would reorder the URI as "http://eample/V2/P1234";. That way you > make it > >>> more explicit that you are talking about data set releases, each of > which is > >>> defined by its own URI prefix. That way you can have two P1234 residing > >>>

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ooluris/#cooluris >>>> >>>> >>>> Martynas >>>> graphityhq.com >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Joachim Baran >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> I woul

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ix. That way you can have two P1234 residing >>> side-by-side even though they might be completely different. >>> >>> Should the version always be part of an URI? I would say yes -- despite >>> seeing your argumentation about the temporal interpretation of URIs

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I knows how nanopubs work. Let's say the closer thing I can find to what I need is git, just with a different id policy. best, Andrea Il giorno 21/set/2014, alle ore 22:00, Michel Dumontier ha scritto: > Hi Andrea, > The nanopublication schema is a general mechanism to associate some > pr

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
m. > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Joachim Baran > wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On 19 September 2014 09:45, Andrea Splendiani >> wrote: >>> >>> When a concept change meaning, it changes id ;) >> >> Aha! I think it might not always change ID! ;) >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Kim

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-19 Thread Andrea Splendiani
knowledge to populate. > > Does that make sense? > > Best wishes, > > Kim > > On 19 September 2014 09:31, Andrea Splendiani > wrote: > >> Hi, I don't think that would work in general. >> One of the issues that I have is that, in general, I don'

Re: How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-19 Thread Andrea Splendiani
letely different. > > Should the version always be part of an URI? I would say yes -- despite > seeing your argumentation about the temporal interpretation of URIs that > you gave. > > Kim > > On 19 September 2014 08:38, Andrea Splendiani > wrote: > >> Hi, >

How do you go about versioning ?

2014-09-19 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I'm posting here a question I have posted in some other forums. How do you go about versioning ? I tend to think at the URI as pointing to the endurant, and this leaves to the "version" the meaning of "what was known/true about an entity at a given time". The latter is conveniently packed in

Re: Problem with classifying the Human Phenotype Ontology

2014-08-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ave a problem at > all. ;) > > - Matthias > > > Am 04.08.2014 14:16, schrieb Andrea Splendiani: > > Hi, > I didn't see the BioHackathon ML message. I have just realised my mail > setup is a bit messed up... > TrOWL I have tried, but I have the impression it do

Re: Problem with classifying the Human Phenotype Ontology

2014-08-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
e: > http://vip.cs.man.ac.uk:8080/live.html > > I have not worked with HPO yet, so those are just some general > recommendations. > > Best, > Matthias > > > > Am 04.08.2014 13:53, schrieb Andrea Splendiani: > > Hi all, >> >> I have stumbled on

Problem with classifying the Human Phenotype Ontology

2014-08-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
I have waited for days but we are under 1%). Does anybody have experience in classifying it ? If classification is unfeasible, than which use cases does the OWL representation cater to? best, Andrea Splendiani

Possible position in a startup applying semantic web technologies

2013-12-19 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi all, I am in contact with a startup that is building a semantic knowledge base for nutrition using semantic web technologies. They may be looking for somebody to take the lead on the knowledge base construction. They are based in London, UK. If somebody is interested, please send me an email

Re: A couple of questions on OWL modeling

2013-11-26 Thread Andrea Splendiani
roject, for linked data it > has the benefit of not being to simple that scientific results be linked to > it. One of the member communities that participated in the development of OBI > represented the Nutrigenomics community. > > References: > > scalar measurement datum > mass measurement datum > has measurement unit label > is quality measurement of > has measurement value > mass > mass unit > > Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI > http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl > http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl > http://obi-ontology.org > http://obi-ontology.org/page/Consortium > > Regards, > Alan > > ps. have you always worn glasses? > > > > > Any hints/opinions ? > > > > best, > > Andrea Splendiani > > > > > >

A couple of questions on OWL modeling

2013-11-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
k it is not appropriate. having 10g of salt is not the same has saying "ha person has one and only one head". If it was 11g, it would not change the entity type, really. Plus not all numbers are integer. Any hints/opinions ? best, Andrea Splendiani

Re: Links to downloadable Bio Dataset in RDF ?

2013-08-31 Thread Andrea Splendiani
conditions. best, Andrea Il giorno 31/ago/2013, alle ore 15:24, Carole Goble ha scritto: > Did you try > Http://www.openphacts.org > > Carole > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 31 Aug 2013, at 16:03, "Andrea Splendiani" > wrote: > >> Hi, >>

Re: Links to downloadable Bio Dataset in RDF ?

2013-08-31 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ch/ResearchAreas/Pharmacogenetics/ucm083378.htm > > 2. http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/LODD/Data > > > > On 08/30/2013 07:40 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was looking for a few datasets to download in RDF (Mesh, Drugbank...), but >>

Re: Links to downloadable Bio Dataset in RDF ?

2013-08-31 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I know Bio2RDF, but I was looking at other resources as well. For instance I think I have seen at some point some version of Mesh in SKOS, but I cannot find an active link. In general, I was wondering whether there was a list of available resources (Bio2RDF and not) which is kept up2date. b

Links to downloadable Bio Dataset in RDF ?

2013-08-30 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi all, I was looking for a few datasets to download in RDF (Mesh, Drugbank...), but when I google for it, I get a lot of indexes/resources (Data.io, w3c wiki, ckan,...) with broken links. Is there a directory which is known to be up2date ? best, Andrea

Re: Standards for inclusion/exclusion criteria ?

2013-07-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
012/05/semantic-models-for-cdisc-based.html > > Best, > Kathrin > > > > Op 7/15/13 1:34 AM, Andrea Splendiani schreef: >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if somebody could provide some pointer to work going on in >> an area that is related to clinical trial

Standards for inclusion/exclusion criteria ?

2013-07-14 Thread Andrea Splendiani
el of detail required "usually" required by clinical trials). The subject itself can be very vast, but is there a framework which provides at least an upper perspective on how to model subjects's features, diseases, interventions, samples (also respect to time) ? Any pointer is we

Re: Identifiers (was Notes from today's meeting)

2013-06-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi all, sorry for following this a bit lightly. If you have multiple validation patterns in a dataset you need to be able to specify what applies to what, otherwise is too weak. Perhaps it makes more sense to see the problem from the opposite point of view: This dataset has the URI collection un

Re: biontology.org Linked Data URIs?

2013-05-28 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Il giorno 29/mag/2013, alle ore 01:27, Alan Ruttenberg ha scritto: > > > On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, Andrea Splendiani wrote: > HI, > > perhaps a key makes easier to track usage for someone with whom you have > established a contract (so servers/IPs may vary, but the &qu

Re: biontology.org Linked Data URIs?

2013-05-28 Thread Andrea Splendiani
HI, perhaps a key makes easier to track usage for someone with whom you have established a contract (so servers/IPs may vary, but the "key" recorded is the same). I think it's an easy mechanism to pick up: if you want to maximize users... this is what any web-developer will do without thinking.

Re: Updated Invitation: Linked Life Data @ Mon 2013-05-13 11:00 - 12:00 (HCLS)

2013-05-13 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Regrets, last minute issues :( I'll check the docs! best, Andrea Il giorno 12/mag/2013, alle ore 23:24, Health Care Life Sciences ha scritto: > > This event has been changed. > more details » > Linked Life Data > Changed: This meeting will be held using fuze: please join at > http://fuze.me/

Re: Observations about facts in genomics

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, Good point. I personally find strange to deal with sequences in RDF. On one side, a sequence is a perfect identifier of itself (once if we factor out experimental errors). However, identity of sequences doesn't matter much (similarity of sequences is what counts). So we could have perfect id

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Uhm... I have the impression that is "precisely" identifying something is the issue... as at the end the point is: "precisely the same according to which criteria?". We could given get theoretical and argue that you cannot measure the same thing twice... but that's another story. I'm confused a

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Andrea Splendiani
HI, From what you say, it looks more as if the apple is the same, but perspective on the apple are different. So same URI and different graphs seem a more clean approach. Using different URIs works as well in practice. But I'm a bit confused on how you make the generalization step. Who is sayin

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-16 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Interesting discussion, I would just add a bit (if it was not added in this long email series): perhaps it is viable to assert owl:sameAs between individuals. If you identify a person by passport number or tax number, you can collapse all statements about the two pretty safely (assuming you cons

Re: CC-ND waver/license and data 'reuse'

2013-01-30 Thread Andrea Splendiani
No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Doesn't sound like building on the shoulders of giants, doesn't it? But the question is: does it refer to an information artifact (e.g. an image) or its content? Best, Andrea Apologies for typos, Sent from an iPhone

Re: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, RDF/Triplestores and Neo4J can both be used as technologies to represent graph structures (like p-p interactions). Neo4J may offer a slightly more natural representation of edge attributes for some, but otherwise they both can "hold graphs". Than they are different tools. If you go for quer

Re: Reminder: SysBio Wednesday 11AM ET / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET

2012-05-24 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, Just a quick comment. We used to have a Semantic Web / BioPAX workgroup, which probably partially overlaps with the intentions of the W3C Sys Bio Group. The workgroup has been stale for a while, essentially because of a lack of time from who was supposed to organize it... but we just had so

Reminder: Google Summer of Code project for Semantic Web visualization (deadline is April 6th!!!)

2012-03-28 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Dear all, The National Resource for Network Biology has put together an exciting list of ideas for google summer of code projects, a few of which are semantic-web-oriented (http://nrnb.org/gsoc/); We will be co-mentoring Idea #5 on Visualizing Semantic Data Landscapes using Cytoscape (http://pinsc

Re: HCLS - visualization task force?

2012-03-13 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, probably there is not much difference. But with Semantic Web data, insight into the structure of data is more of a key, as you don't have "schemas". If I query a database, I would look at tables to understand a structure. If I look a at a Semantic Web knowledge base, perhaps visualization is

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
i know have > built strong support and applications. elsevier and deri were sponsors > also. > > cheers, > michael > > Michael Miller > Software Engineer > Institute for Systems Biology > > [1]: http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/ > > >

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
mantic web technology, but bear in mind that Watson is more a cleaver example of NLP. An interesting question, how to make the case for semantic web technology. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth) mailto:andrea.splendi...@rothamsted.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Oliver

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth)
hing > more formal. > > Best, > > - Anita. > > Anita de Waard > Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs > http://elsatglabs.com/labs/anita/ > a.dewa...@elsevier.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth) >

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

How much does data integration cost ?

2011-09-14 Thread Andrea Splendiani
#x27;data integration' and the rest is a bit fuzzy, however, in a first approximation, which is the size of the problem that the Semantic Web is trying to tackle ? Obviously, I would be interested in the Life Sciences and Health Care context. best, Andrea Splendiani Andrea Splendiani Se

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
n in a Semantic Web forum. Save >>> your energies for more productive discussions, such as how to reconcile the >>> Palestine/Israel conflict. >>> >>> Pat Hayes >>> >> -- >> Chime Ogbuji >> Sent with Sparrow >> > > > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola(850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > > > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
gt;> Il giorno 21/giu/2011, alle ore 18.46, Helena Deus ha scritto: >> >>> Other standards (outside of semantic web) saw the need to rely on >>> numeric >> identifiers, even if that created a burden for their users >>> e.g. in SNOMED Lung = T-28000 >>&g

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ery SNOMED with "all the diseases that affect T-28000". > But the fact is that despite the inconvenience of having to fetch that identifier prior to the query, SNOMED is widely used. > > What is so special about semantic web identifiers that they don't need to follow the s

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
useable APIs/UIs for people. > > Best, > > m. > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci- >> requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sivaram Arabandi, MD >> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:14 PM >&g

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
> m. > > From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org > [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sivaram Arabandi, > MD > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 3:56 PM > To: Chime Ogbuji > Cc: Andrea Splendiani; Vagnoni,Matthew M; James Malone; HCLS > Subject:

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
nsumers of the nuances that make one scenario more of an issue than another is much more appropriate. > General observation: This seems like another neat v.s. scruffy thread and there seem to be many of these playing out in the various semantic web communities at this time. http-range-14 v.s. ontology-determined meaning of resources, dereferencability of RDF URIs, etc. > > -- > Chime Ogbuji > Sent with Sparrow > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
veryone" speaks English, then which flavour of English should the names be in? American english or british english? Trash or Rubbish? ;-) > > -- > Helena F. Deus > Post-Doctoral Researcher at DERI/NUIG > http://lenadeus.info/ > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scie

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
gt; On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:08:43 -0700, Andrea Splendiani > wrote: > > >> - in a continuum between web and semantic web, perhaps IDs are not only >> intended to be 'understood' by machines. >> >> Again, I understand the reason for them. But is it worth the r

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
p ?o > WHERE {:MRN ?p ?o} > > Or they can quickly jump to that concept by referring to the URI. In TopBraid Composer there is a text box where you can put a URI in and it will automatically jump to that resource. > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Preliminary cfp: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Workshop

2011-06-14 Thread Andrea Splendiani
• Posters and demo submission deadline: 31 October 2011 • Communication of acceptance: 7 November 2011 • Camera ready: 21 November 2011 Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004

Call for tutorials at the Semantic Web Application and Tools for Life Sciences Workshop (London, Dec. 2011)

2011-05-31 Thread Andrea Splendiani
note to i...@swat4ls.org, possibly within this or the next week. We only need a couple of lines on the topic, intended audience and time needed at this stage. best, Andrea Splendiani Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 76313

Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 26 May

2011-05-26 Thread Andrea Splendiani
d, and makes it easier for us to live our academic lives in > peace :-) (and easier to get money from research-funding agencies) > > Mark > > > > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 26 May

2011-05-26 Thread Andrea Splendiani
d, and makes it easier for us to live our academic lives in > peace :-) (and easier to get money from research-funding agencies) > > Mark > > > > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 26 May

2011-05-26 Thread Andrea Splendiani
x27;s precisely one of the lines we are trying to open here at OEG-UPM. > > Cheers > > > On og., 2011.eko mairen 26a 15:08, Andrea Splendiani wrote: > Hi, > > I see myself as more involved in the next incarnation of the charter ;) > Unfortunately, today is a travel d

Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 26 May

2011-05-26 Thread Andrea Splendiani
S") > IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #HCLS (see W3C IRC page for > details, or see Web IRC), Quick Start: Use > http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.w3.org:6665&channel=%23hcls for > IRC access. > Duration: ~1 hour > Convener: Eric Prud'hommeaux > Scribe: TBD > > HCLS IG charter/strategy discussion > -- > -ericP > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Re: Good news from the EBI Semantic Web Industry Workshop and LODD members

2011-05-24 Thread Andrea Splendiani
o-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls > http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall > Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Metadata for Bio SPARQL endpoints ?

2011-03-04 Thread Andrea Splendiani
se (or for endpoint itself if this holds information which is "coherent" source-wise): - update frequency - last update - data source (type and in case link). Does anybody have this already ? Opinions ? best, Andrea Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematic

Pllexdb in RDF ?

2011-01-17 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, quick question: Is anybody aware of PlexDB (plexdb.org) in RDF, or of some ongoing work in this direction ? best, Andrea Splendiani Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Correction: Submission deadline extended to Oct. 15: SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

2010-10-11 Thread Andrea Splendiani
days of associated > hackathon and tutorials. > > Full details on the workshop can be found at: http://swat4ls.org/2010/ > > -- > M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair > Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam > http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall > A

Reminder: SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

2010-10-05 Thread Andrea Splendiani
hackathon and tutorials. Full details on the workshop can be found at: http://swat4ls.org/2010/ Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk

Cfp SWAT4LS: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences 2010

2010-09-13 Thread Andrea Splendiani
, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK Scientific Program committee (more to be confirmed): • Erick Antezana, Bayer CropScience, Ghent, Belgium • Pedro Barahona, Department of

4store anybody ?

2010-06-23 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, did anybody have success in installing 4store with some large dataset (like Uniprot) on it ? i'm having a range of problems with "big files" (say, more than 4Gb). Mostly probably coming up from some interaction with the file system or avahi. ciao, Andrea --- Andrea Sp

F2F meeting in Boston ?

2010-04-08 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ing to join the gatherings. I've added a presentation to the w3c wiki (http://esw.w3.org/Andrea_Splendiani). ciao, Andrea --- Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Sorry, what's the AAA principle ? It seems to me ignoring is not a problem. In case, thinking that you don't ignore anything is against the SemWeb framework. Ciao, Andrea -Original Message- From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Beha

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Hi, What is "meaning" for you ? For what comes to my mind, either you consider an explicit set of statements, and then this device will be pointless. Or you consider something that carries some information, and this rule out almost only white noise. What do you have in mind ? Ciao, Andrea

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Andrea Splendiani
DF/OWL graphs. That is to say, maybe I'm wrong and > semantics doesn't even come into existence when somebody attributes an > RDF/XML graph to a document; but rather it only comes into existence when > somebody queries across (possibly) many graphs of many different pe

Title: SWAT4LS Call for participation

2009-10-29 Thread Andrea Splendiani
y, a Knowledge Management System for the support of the European Dendritic Cell Immunology Community Marco Brandizi, Michaela Gündel, Ciro Scognamiglio and Andrea Splendiani. Panel discussion: Theme: TBD Plus poster sessions (authors of posters are not listed in this call, but will be liste

Re: ismb sig call for proposals is online

2009-10-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
I'm afraid I won't be able to attend in person. If there is a chance for a skype/phone connection, I would be interested in participating. best, Andrea Splendiani On 20 Oct 2009, at 23:02, Susie Stephens wrote: As the Bio-Ontologies SIG at ISMB has been running for 11 years, it

Re: ismb sig call for proposals is online

2009-10-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: It somewhat overlaps with bio-ontologies, though. If people are keen to do this, I'd suggest talking to the bio-ontologies organisers (Nigam is best point of contact) to see whether something can be done in common. Phil Andrea Splen

Re: ismb sig call for proposals is online

2009-10-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
The CFP is largely the same as last year's; I expect that it will be updated in a few days to include the names of the committee members. The submission deadline is Dec 1st. I look forward to another great collection of SIG meetings! Thanks, Hershel -- Hershel Safer e: hsa...@alum.mi

Re: Jena as RDF Adapter

2009-09-30 Thread Andrea Splendiani
nice to have a citation to convince others, too. Do you know any? Thanks! Take care Oliver --- Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004

Is any HCLS meetup at ISWC ?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrea Splendiani
I was wondering who was attending and if something was organized. best, Andrea Splendiani --- Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004

SWAT4LS Cfp updates: new deadlines and journal supplement

2009-09-17 Thread Andrea Splendiani
, Scotland, United Kingdom * Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK ***More

Second CFP: SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

2009-08-24 Thread Andrea Splendiani
, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK ***More information * http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/ * http://swat4ls.blogspot.com

Re: Any meeting at ISMB ?

2009-06-28 Thread Andrea Splendiani
behalf of Alan Ruttenberg Sent: Mon 6/22/2009 18:24 To: Matthias Samwald Cc: Hilmar Lapp; eric neumann; Andrea Splendiani; w3c semweb HCLS Subject: Re: Any meeting at ISMB ? Should work for me. Skype/email is best for details as we get closer.-Alan On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Matthias S

RE: Any meeting at ISMB ?

2009-06-22 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Looks good to me... Ciao, Andrea -Original Message- From: Matthias Samwald [mailto:samw...@gmx.at] Sent: 22 June 2009 14:44 To: Alan Ruttenberg; Hilmar Lapp Cc: eric neumann; andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth); w3c semweb HCLS Subject: Re: Any meeting at ISMB ? If there is still interest in

Re: Any meeting at ISMB ?

2009-06-18 Thread Andrea Splendiani
at are not registered for the main ISMB conference? I, for example, have only registered for a SIG meeting (and will already fly back in the afternoon of June 30). Cheers, Matthias From: eric neumann Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:04 PM To: Andrea Splendiani Cc: w3c semweb HCLS Subjec

Any meeting at ISMB ?

2009-06-18 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I was wondering is somebody on this list was planning to held some formal/informal meeting at ISMB/ECCB. Perhaps a BOF ? ciao, Andrea --- Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004

Re: Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrea Splendiani
l giorno 02/mar/09, alle ore 22:43, Xiaoshu Wang ha scritto: Andrea Splendiani wrote: One thing that I think would be very useful, though it poses some semantic problem... is the possibility to assert equivalence in rdf. At the moment equivalence can be asserted only in owl (and this implie

Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-27 Thread Andrea Splendiani
g/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Organism.owl See also: https://wiki.neuinfo.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/NIFSTDoverview http://neuinfo.org On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote: Thanks! It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9. I wonder whether there is some architecture to tra

Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-27 Thread Andrea Splendiani
I guess this could be a good idea for ontology providers... ciao, Andrea Il giorno 26/feb/09, alle ore 05:38, Lee Feigenbaum ha scritto: andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote: Thanks! It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9. I wonder whether there is some architecture to transparently tra

Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-27 Thread Andrea Splendiani
critto: On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote: Thanks! It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9. I wonder whether there is some architecture to transparently transfer compressed ontologies... well the obo file is a bit more compact, and the source NCBI file is

RE: Re : Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-27 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
post I wrote an extension for arq/sparql returning all the descendants of a given organism. The data were stored in mysql. Pierre Lindenbaum - Message d'origine De : Andrea Splendiani À : public-semweb-lifesci hcls Envoyé le : Mercredi, 25 Février 2009, 20h58mn 55s Objet : Is ther

RE: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-25 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Thanks. I've been looking for it, but I was not sure the Taxonomy was inside... and I was trying with different URIs... Ciao, Andrea -Original Message- From: Melanie Courtot [mailto:mcour...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 February 2009 20:29 To: andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) Cc: public-s

RE: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-25 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
Thanks! It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9. I wonder whether there is some architecture to transparently transfer compressed ontologies... Ciao, Andrea -Original Message- From: Chris Mungall [mailto:c...@berkeleybop.org] Sent: 25 February 2009 20:53 To: andrea splendiani (RRes

RE: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-25 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
ere. Ciao, Andrea -Original Message- From: Erick Antezana [mailto:er...@psb.ugent.be] Sent: 25 February 2009 20:51 To: andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls; Vladimir Mironov; Martin Kuiper Subject: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ? Hi Andrea, you can fi

Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-25 Thread Andrea Splendiani
t the representation itself. Does anybody have some hint about where I can fin an OWL version ? Or even an RDF version ? Even better would a sparql endpoint containing it... best, Andrea Splendiani

Is there a benchmark of triple-stores with a "bias" to Life Sciences ?

2009-02-12 Thread Andrea Splendiani
s ? Or is this some area that you think needs more exploration ? It seems to me that to the question "why did you use this triplestore ?", the usual answer is "I'e tried a few and this worked". best, Andrea Splendiani

Announcing RDFScape: Cytoscape plugin to read and reason on ontologies

2008-02-08 Thread Andrea Splendiani
ualization tool for ontologies. It also offers an interactive ontology browsing function (the rdf network can be interactively expanded) and the possibility to define query as graph patterns (visually). best, Andrea Splendiani [1] http://www.bioinformatics.org/rdfscape/ [2] http://www.cyt

Re: [ANN] LENA: Lens-based RDF Browser

2007-10-11 Thread Andrea Splendiani
I have to agree that almost all the semantic websites I've seen, with huge list of triples, look at best discouraging, at worst impenetrable. But for a core set of lenses you require some standard, no ? Do you have some specific use-cases to begin with ? best, Andrea Il giorno 11/ott/07, alle

Re: [Fwd: ISMB 2008 Call for Special Session Proposals + More ISCB Conference News]

2007-09-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
first. On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote: my 0.001 cents, If you look at the other sessions, there's nothing so technologically oriented. And there's already a session on ontologies. Maybe a SIG ? (that by the way seem to be more interesting) with a foc

Re: [Fwd: ISMB 2008 Call for Special Session Proposals + More ISCB Conference News]

2007-09-20 Thread Andrea Splendiani
onal touch). Andrea ------- Andrea Splendiani post-doc, bootstrep project (www.bootstrep.eu) UPRES-EA 3888 - Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale CHU de Pontchaillou 2, rue Henri Le Guilloux 35033 Rennes - France Tel : +33 2 99 28 92 45 / +33 2 99 28 42 15 (secr.) Fax : +33 2 99 28 41 60

Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases

2007-09-10 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Il giorno 10/set/07, alle ore 13:48, Xiaoshu Wang ha scritto: Andrea Splendiani wrote: The reason, I guess, that "biopax:AUTHORS", is developed is because the bioPAX people wants it to be a "format" rather making it a knowledge. No... just DC was not so widespread and kno

Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases

2007-09-10 Thread Andrea Splendiani
This is not the point. The idea is that a user of a URIs should accept a commitment to a shared conceptualizazion. And strictly speaking... information such as authors don't need to be "in the ontology"... meaning... are we going to define classes in the real world depending on authors ? (h

Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases

2007-09-10 Thread Andrea Splendiani
uded... uso of GO terms was) and properly define the role of ontology, format and so on. By the way, you may note that a "pathway exchange" language with "pathway" beining something as metabolic/signalling/interaction... was clearly a underestimation of the task. Some of th

Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases

2007-09-10 Thread Andrea Splendiani
thway names. For this, other reosurces are more appropriate. A proper pathway reconciliation based on biopax (reconciliation doens't need to end in sameAs...) should make use of the structure of pathways (reactions, elements, order...) more than lexical properties anmd testual description

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