Re: [LLD] Reminder: Dataset descriptions telco 8AM PST / 5PM CET

Hello everyone!

My name is Cartik Saravanamuthu. Because my full name is even longer (!), I
am also known as Cartik Kothari. I write this introduction at Scott
Marshall's request from a teleconference earlier today. Some of you on this
list may know me from before. At present, I am a postdoc working in cancer
genomics at the Ohio State University. My current research work involves
integrating legacy karyotype data, SNP data, CGH data, NexGen sequence
data, as well as EHR data from patients with leukemia and prostrate cancer
for the purpose of finding correlations between gene expression and disease
phenotypes as well as for predictive analysis. In addition to OSU's own
Data Warehouse and Integrated Health Information Systems, I leverage plenty
of open source knowledge bases in my work including TCGA, NCI
Metathesaurus, and NCI datasets such as Mitelman.

My doctoral thesis work was in knowledge representation formalisms for the
Semantic Web, specifically analyzing the capabilities of OWL (Version 1)
towards capturing the semantics of binary relations. I have a very good
foundation in Description Logics and authored one of the earliest OWL
ontologies, the OntoSensor, around 2004 for sensor data fusion for
surveillance and security applications. Since then, I have worked primarily
in data integration and knowledge discovery architectures in very diverse
areas such as evolutionary biology and homeland security.

I am very interested in the dataset description initiative at the HCLS WG.
>From an application perspective, I think this metadata standard will be
very useful in my current research work. I hope to contribute to this
initiative from an application development context.

Thank you