Semantic Web for Life Sciences Mailing List

Welcome to the Semantic Web for LifeSciences Mailing List!


Overview
The public-semweb-lifesci list provides an open forum for scientists and
informaticists to discuss issues and initiatives relevant to the use of
the Sematic Web for the life sciences.

Scope
This forum is intended to identify opportunities for applying
semantic-based approaches to life sciences, as well as advance the rapid
design and development of reference models in several areas of life
sciences informatics and knowledge exchange. 

The existence of several current ontologies for biology and chemistry,
such as GeneOntology, BioPAX, and NLM's UMLS, offer the possibility to
develop RDF models and strategies that can best leverage them. The use
of these ontologies in conjunction with other W3C standards could
greatly accelerate the practical use of web-based technologies
throughout the science community.

Applications of RDF within the Life Sciences may include:
* RDF-based Distributed Annotation Systems (DAS)
* Framework for clearly defining biological systems and phenomena
* Heterogeneous Data Integration, ala RDF aggregation and Web-Joins
* The Generation, Capture, and Testing of Scientific Hypotheses
* The use of RDF as a basis for on-line publishing that embed Molecular,
Cellular, and Disease Models

W3C provides the public-semweb-lifesci forum as a home for detailed
domain-related and technical discussions of all approaches to the use of
classical logic and ontologies within the Life Science community for the
representation of data, ontologies, intepretations, knowledge,
biological systems, mechanisms of action, and inference rules. The life
science list, through association with the RDF Interest Group
(http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/), also serves as a mechanism to provide
input into W3C's Semantic Web activities, in particular relating the
needs of the life sciences community to future directions for the
Resource Description Framework. 

The Semantic Web for Life Sciences is an independent group that intends
to coordinate closely with other Semantic Web Initiatives. 

Eric


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    Eric K. Neumann PhD
    VP Strategic Informatics,
    Head of Knowledge Research

   Beyond Genomics

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    Waltham, MA
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