Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-08-31 Thread Jenny ure
Christine Golbreich was I thought involved in developing an OWl based version of this

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-12 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
the annotations of the objects in the MAGE-ML. cheers, Michael > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Marco Brandizi > Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 1:26 PM > To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Cc: public-semweb-li

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-11 Thread Marco Brandizi
Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote: One other issue is that the actual objects in a microarray experiment are for the most part one offs--i.e. a chip is a chip, it is only hybridized once, the current investigation is only performed once with a set of chips and so on. Even the genes that are

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-11 Thread Marco Brandizi
William Bug wrote: If the goal of the semantic web were to serve end users only, I would agree Marco. Since the data we express via SW technologies will also be used for "large-scale, data integration and meta-analysis on data derived from disparate studies," and since to perform such st

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-09 Thread William Bug
I think Marco makes several very important points - some of which relate to the follow-up comments Michael has posted in reponse. I though it might be worth highlighting them again - and bringing them up for discussion in the call Michael will be giving next week On Jun 9, 2006, at 11:39 A

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-09 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
.com > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Marco Brandizi > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:39 AM > To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation > > > >

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-09 Thread Marco Brandizi
Hi all, some notes on the discussion of MAGE/FUGE/FUGO and RDF. - I think that converting the whole MAGE or FUGE into RDF is hard in practice and maybe not so useful. The problems are: - FUGE and MAGE are object models and should be reviewd in order to provide an OWL modelling. For instan

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread John Wilbanks
(to be clear, when i say hotel, i mean the rental of a meeting room in a hotel, not the costs of hotel rooms!) John Wilbanks wrote: OK. I will be traveling most of the rest of the month for non-Neurocommons related work. But I'll return to this end of June and start gathering some forces

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread John Wilbanks
OK. I will be traveling most of the rest of the month for non-Neurocommons related work. But I'll return to this end of June and start gathering some forces. I'll also get in touch with Karen Skinner. I'd been thinking about early December as a time frame and Boston as a location. I'll

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread William Bug
Ditto, John! I'd also suggest including NCBO folks on this (specifically Daniel Rubin and Barry Smith), as I see an obvious convergence of needs and focus here - despite the fact some see the top-down ontological approach and the bottom-up SW approach as being difficult to reconcile. Che

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread kei cheung
Hi John et al., I think it's a great idea. Do you have some more information (e.g., meeting location and draft meeting agenda) about the Neurocommons meeting you mentioned which Bill and I (and possibly others) can share with the neurosceintists we're working (have worked) with to see what t

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread William Bug
Hi Kei, I agree on all points. As far as getting all of these busy folks together at one time, you are certainly correct - that is tough. Having said that, they each represent a category of neuroinformatics researcher, and there are others, so we could fall back to other folks. To my mi

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread John Wilbanks
All, I've been following the discussion here with interest the last two weeks - with the Neurocommons project, Science Commons is taking on both issues of intellectual property (on ontologies and databases) and the semantic web in neuroscience. We're text mining the open content and indexin

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-08 Thread kc28
Hi Bill, Thanks for your passionate response. When I said "outreach", I did imply to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between the semantic web and neuroscience communities. I agree with you that such a relationship would help bring scientific/techological advances to both communit

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-07 Thread William Bug
Many thanks, Daniel, for forwarding this to Onard - and can certain clear up any ambiguous or incorrect statements I have made regarding the FMA. He should definitely be involved in this discussion. Cheers, Bill On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Daniel Rubin wrote: At 11:30 AM 6/7/2006, Willi

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-07 Thread William Bug
I do run on, sometimes, don't I, Kei? I emphatically agree with the general tenor of your suggestion. I would word it a bit differently. I wouldn't call this outreach so much as going to the "customer" and asking them to help us - the technology experts - to define their user requirements.

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-07 Thread William Bug
Daniel, if I remember correctly, you have a Protege version of the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Was this in Frames or OWL format? Did it include the NeuroNames integration with FMA (NeuroFMA)? It's still unclear to me whether NeuroFMA is still active as a project, and how this would al

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Eric Miller
-- eric miller http://www.w3.org/people/em/ w3c world wide web consortiumhttp://www.w3.org/ On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:42 PM, kc28 wrote: Hi Bill, You really can write faster than I can read :-). Actually, we have discussed in a previous telconf about

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kc28
Hi Bill, You really can write faster than I can read :-). Actually, we have discussed in a previous telconf about how to outreach to the neuroscience community. I think this represents a good opportunity to try to get people like Doug Bowden involved, as we are interested in converting Neu

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread William Bug
Dear Matthias, I would strongly recommend you contact Doug Bowden and colleagues at NeuroNames before you undertake this task - or at least take a look at the NeuroNames specifics I list in my previous email. I'd be glad to answer any questions you may have about statements I made. Doug

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Matthias Samwald
Hi Kei, I am under the impression that the neuronames ontology available on their website (as an Excel file...) is different from the version that is licensed as part of the UMLS. I guess the version that is online is a newer version of the one incorporated in UMLS. However, this might be seen

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Marja Koivunen
I'm interested in a scenario of how a research group in a new area could use use these kinds of termilogies in finding possibly relevant terms and then more related information. For instance, I have collected and organized some neuroscience links into an Annotea bookmark file such as http:/

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kei cheung Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:52 AM To: Alan Ruttenberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Daniel Rubin'; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; 'Matthew Cockerill' Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: Bio

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
> From: kei cheung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:34 AM > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Daniel Rubin; > public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; Matthew Cockerill > Subject: Re: MGED/Fu

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
M > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for > the UMLS presentation > > > Hi Michael and Larry, > > As I understand it, Gavin Sherlock who is a member of MGED is &g

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
Hi Matthias, Thanks for doing that, but do we still have the licensing issue as stated by Olivier? Cheers, -Kei Matthias Samwald wrote: I will convert the neuronames - ontology to SKOS (an OWL ontology used for the representation of taxonomies / theasauri). It will be added to the extens

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. MGED still has rooms for ontological improvement. As Larry suggested, we would have a better luck if we can work with the MGED consor

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
ED]; 'Daniel Rubin'; > public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; 'Matthew Cockerill' > Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for > the UMLS presentation > > > > Hi Alan, > > Thanks for pointing us to FuGO. To me, it seems like that the F

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
day, June 06, 2006 9:41 AM > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for > the UMLS presentation > > > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. MGED still h

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
Hi Alan, Thanks for pointing us to FuGO. To me, it seems like that the FuGO community is currently defining an upper ontology that can be universally used to describe different types of genomic/proteomic experiments including microarray experiments. There is a draft OWL version of FuGO (http

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:54 AM To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation Hi Michael et al, Is there a converter available which can tak

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
Larry, Thanks for the clarification. I agree that it would be great to have an OWL version of MGED-ML (at least for experimental descriptions) Best, -Kei Larry Hunter wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:54 -0400, kei cheung wrote: Hi Michael et al, Is there a converter available which ca

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hunter
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 12:18 -0400, kei cheung wrote: > Larry, > > I totally agree with you. The NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium > (http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org/np2/home.do) might be a good use case > since it's MIAME-compliant and it's neuroscience-specific. Do you and/or > others ha

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
Larry, I totally agree with you. The NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium (http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org/np2/home.do) might be a good use case since it's MIAME-compliant and it's neuroscience-specific. Do you and/or others have any suggestion on how we can possibly approach the MGED cons

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
cheers, Michael > -Original Message- > From: kei cheung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:54 AM > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for > the UM

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Matthias Samwald
I will convert the neuronames - ontology to SKOS (an OWL ontology used for the representation of taxonomies / theasauri). It will be added to the extension of the bio-zen ontologies framework [1]. I will keep you updated. kind regards, Matthias Samwald [1] http://neuroscientific.net/index.php?

Re: [personal] RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:18 -0400, Donald Doherty wrote: > it’s an embarrassment that the anatomy ontologies that are out there > are locked up behind licensing. Amen to that! Imagine the state we'd be in if, starting in 1991, all web pages had password protection on them, or you had to do

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hunter
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:54 -0400, kei cheung wrote: > Hi Michael et al, > > Is there a converter available which can take existing datasets in > mage-ml format and convert them into mged-owl format? These are two different things. An MAGE-ML dataset describes gene chips, hybridizations to the

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hunter
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:15 -0400, kc28 wrote: > It might be time to think about how to > convert mged ontology or mage-ml into RDF/OWL. Kei, This has the added advantage of enabling a large number of other life science applications as well. It's possible that the MGED consortium (http://www.

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
l Message- > From: Benjamin Good [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:45 PM > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; public-semweb-lifesci > Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation > > &g

Re: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread kei cheung
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:40 AM To: kc28 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Daniel Rubin'; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; 'Matthew Cockerill' Subject: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS

RE: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
in'; > public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; 'Matthew Cockerill' > Subject: MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the > UMLS presentation > > > > On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:15 PM, kc28 wrote: > > > It might be time to think about how to convert mged ont

MGED/FuGO. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:15 PM, kc28 wrote: It might be time to think about how to convert mged ontology or mage-ml into RDF/OWL. The following are two related articles: http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/full/msb4100052.html http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v23/n9/full/nbt0905-1095.html C

SKOS. was: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
With minor tweaks this can be used in OWL - Matthias Samwald has done this and used it in his BioPAX work. I am working on a proposal to formally include it in BioPAX, for an upcoming workshop we are having. That said, merely being syntactically OWL adds little semantic benefit. Semantics, i

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-06 Thread Eric Miller
On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Olivier Bodenreider wrote: Benjamin Good wrote: Are there any plans to release the UMLS or parts thereof as RDF / OWL ? Not to my knowledge, Ben. And I certainly would be very cautious of any attempt to doing it. The main reason is that many relations used fo

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Benjamin Good
On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote: Hi Ben and Matt, An RDF version of the UMLS knowledge sources would be seem to be very useful - at least for bioinformatics research purposes ... What I was trying to discover was, from a purely RDF/ontology standpoint, what is

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Tim Clark
5 June 2006 22:54:01 BDT *To: *kei cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> *Cc: *'public-semweb-lifesci' <mailto:public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>> *Subject: **Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation* *Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Donald Doherty
Don -Original Message- From: kc28 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Matthew Cockerill'; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Daniel Rubin' Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation For mo

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread kc28
;mailto:public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>> *Subject: **Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation* *Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kei cheung wrote: Hi Olivier, Sorry, I missed part of your talk (the beginning part and the ending part) as I needed t

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread kc28
;mailto:public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>> *Subject: **Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation* *Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kei cheung wrote: Hi Olivier, Sorry, I missed part of your talk (the beginning part and the ending part) as I needed t

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Donald Doherty
To: kei cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 'public-semweb-lifesci' <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org> Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     kei cheung wrote: Hi Olivier,   Sorry

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Olivier Bodenreider
kei cheung wrote: Hi Olivier, Sorry, I missed part of your talk (the beginning part and the ending part) as I needed to be at other meetings. Is Neuronames (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9410576&dopt=Abstract) part of UMLS now? If so, does it

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Olivier Bodenreider
BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation But presumably the relations which characterize the structure of UMLS could be given their own URIs, no? Along with the concepts themselves. And then UMLS could then be expressed in RDF, using UMLS specific relations, rather than standard OWL

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread kei cheung
Hi Olivier, Sorry, I missed part of your talk (the beginning part and the ending part) as I needed to be at other meetings. Is Neuronames (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9410576&dopt=Abstract) part of UMLS now? If so, does it make sense to conve

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
: Benjamin Good [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:52 PM > To: Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation > > > Hi, > >

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Benjamin Good
elations can be reasonably mapped to is_a and part_of relations. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olivier Bodenreider Sent: 05 June 2006 18:00 To: Benjamin Good Cc: 'public-semweb-lifesci' Subject: Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation > > > > But presumably the relations which characterize the structure > of UMLS could be given th

RE: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread matt
reasonably mapped to is_a and part_of relations. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olivier > Bodenreider > Sent: 05 June 2006 18:00 > To: Benjamin Good > Cc: 'public-semweb-lifesci' > Subject: Re: Bi

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Olivier Bodenreider
Benjamin Good wrote: Are there any plans to release the UMLS or parts thereof as RDF / OWL ? Not to my knowledge, Ben. And I certainly would be very cautious of any attempt to doing it. The main reason is that many relations used for creating hierarchies in biomedical vocabularies are not true

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]: slides for the UMLS presentation

2006-06-05 Thread Benjamin Good
Are there any plans to release the UMLS or parts thereof as RDF / OWL ? thanks -Ben On Jun 5, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Olivier Bodenreider wrote: A PDF file with the slides of my UMLS presentation this morning is available at: http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pres/060605-BioRDF.pdf -- Olivier Sus