- From: Phillip Lord <Phillip.Lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:21:27 -0000
- To: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
I'm Phillip Lord, from University of Newcastle, having recently escaped the clutches of Robert Stevens and Carole Goble who introduced themselves earlier. I'm also co-chair of the Bio-Ontologies meeting at ISMB. I'm interested in organising data within biology, so that it becomes more computational amenable. The reasons for the application of the semantic web within bioinformatics are obvious, I think, but there are many areas where we do not yet know how to use the technology properly. When are semantic web technologies the most appropriate tools? What level of detail do we need to capture? How do we tailor user interfaces for the different levels of expertise (bioinformatician, lab biologist, sys admin, computer scientist) who wish to user the data? What sort of software architecture do we need to share, search and update semantic web data? Finally, and of course, most importantly, what new biology can we facilitate from using these technologies. Over the last few years, I've been researching some of these questions with respect to comparative genomics as part of the ComparaGRID project, and before that, addressing service discovery for biology as part of the myGrid project. Phil -- Phillip Lord, Lecturer in Bioinformatics, School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Email: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk Web: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord/
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