- From: Brian Gilman <gilmanb@pantherinformatics.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:57:01 -0500
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Hello Everyone, My name is Brian Gilman. I will be your staff contact at the W3C. I have 4 specific interests in the semantic web: 1) To allow inter/intra organization data transmission across databases 2) To build rich data mining toolkits based on semantic web technology 3) Enable the direct transmission from databases of clinical data to doctors and researchers around the world in a format that is immediately understood and interpreted by those in a pre-clinical/ clinical laboratory 4) To mine and infer new relationships in data found in public/ private databases I have a background in computer science and biochemistry. I was the informatics team leader of the functional genomics department at the Whitehead Institute for 5 years under Dr. Jill Mesirov and Dr. David Altshuler. I was also a team member of the JRun team at Allaire Corporation (now Adobe Systems). I am now the president of the consulting firm Panther Informatics Inc. At Panther, we have been applying sophisticated data mining and semantic web technologies (using the Jena toolkit) to aid organizations such as the ALS foundation and Partners Healthcare in their translational medicine programs. We are also working with the National Cancer Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and some small biotechnology companies here in Cambridge on similar projects. I was pleased with the amount of energy and participation during our first phone call as well as the number of people who participated. I encourage you to let other parties inside and outside your organization know about the mailing list, phone calls and face- to-face meetings we have planned. As my ex-boss used to say, more nodes in the network are always a good thing. I will be sending the minutes of the last meeting to the mailing list in a few minutes. Thanks for all your input, enthusiasm. I know this group will be doing some fantastic and exciting work in the near future. Best, Brian Gilman -- Brian Gilman President Panther Informatics Inc. E-Mail: gilmanb@pantherinformatics.com gilmanb@jforge.net AIM: gilmanb1
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