- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:39:42 +0100
- To: Mark Musen <musen@stanford.edu>
- Cc: AJ Chen <canovaj@gmail.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>>>>> "MM" == Mark Musen <musen@stanford.edu> writes: MM> On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:09 PM, AJ Chen wrote: >> The first task is to develop an ontology for self-publishing of >> experiment. I have proposed a list of objects and properties >> related to self-publishing experiment. Please download the >> attached file under Task Status and review the proposal. Your >> feedback and comments will be greatly appreciated. You may also >> edit the file directly and email me the edited file. >> MM> A colleague just pointed me to this (rather vacuous) article. MM> Does anyone know more about this work? MM> http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9288-translator-lets- MM> computers-understand-experiments-.html It's a middle ontology for describing experiments--hypothesis, conclusions that sort of thing. Larisa Soldatova and Ross King have been working on this for a couple of years. As some one else mentioned, it fits in with Ross' earlier work on a robot scientist which was really very nice. They also wrote an interesting paper on the state of bio-ontologies. Nature Biotechnology 23, 1095 - 1098 (2005) doi:10.1038/nbt0905-1095 Are the current ontologies in biology good ontologies? Larisa N Soldatova & Ross D King EXPO is quite nice, but as the article suggests there needs to be some serious work on UI's before it scientists would actually start using it. Will be interesting to see how that work goes. Phil
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