Re: Introduction

Mark,
Have you just getting started to build your OWL/RDF models of 
Ischemic Heart Disease, or have you  already done something in this 
area?  I'd be interested in seeing your ontologies.
Best regards,
Daniel

At 09:25 AM 2/10/2006, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

>Greetings all!
>
>I'm Mark Wilkinson, Assistant Prof. of Medical Genetics at the
>University of British Columbia, and PI in Bioinformatics at the iCAPTURE
>Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, St. Paul's Hospital,
>Vancouver.  My "claim to fame", so to speak, is the Web Services branch
>of the BioMOBY project (http://biomoby.org), which I established in 2001
>and continue to spend most of my time working on, though the broader
>BioMOBY consortium is well over 50 continuously active members now.  I
>recently started a Semantic Web initiative - CardioSHARE (Cardiovascular
>Semantic Health And Research Environment -
>http://cardioshare.icapture.ubc.ca) with the goal of bulding OWL/RDF
>models of the Ischemic Heart Disease data being captured in our local
>molecular, clinical and tissue registries, and outcomes data from two
>other databases in other parts of Canada, with the goal of using
>Semantic Web Services to discover, extract, integrate and facilitate
>classification of these data; in addition to building prototype
>semantically-enabled ethics and privacy protection systems to both
>enhance the granularity of patient consent, as well as automate the
>protection of and access to individual patient data in an "ethics aware"
>environment.
>
>I'll likely be just a "lurker" on this list most of the time, but if
>there is a way that I can contribute please just ping me!
>
>Best wishes all!
>
>Mark
>
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>University of British Columbia
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Received on Friday, 10 February 2006 20:22:58 UTC