- From: Steven Bedrick <bedricks@ohsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:26:26 -0800
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Howdy, I'm Steve Bedrick. I'm a PhD student in Biomedical Informatics at the Oregon Health & Science University, and I'm particularly interested in studying ways to use semantic web technologies in the realm of "translational genomics". An up-and-coming problem right now in medical informatics seems to be finding ways to integrate genomic data with other medical information, and I think that SW tools (OWL, etc.) will be crucial in helping to accomplish this. I'm also excited about the possibilities that RDF, LSID's, and OWL offer within the field of bioinformatics itself- integrating data from different databases becomes orders of magnitude easier once RDF and LSID come into play. I'm excited about the W3C's HCLSIG for a number of reasons, but primarily because I think it can help drive adoption and increase awareness of SW technologies and concepts. We've got all of these great technologies and standards... but too few people who *could* be taking advantage of them *are* taking advantage of them, and more often than not it seems like the reason for this is that they don't know what's out there already. -SB
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