[BioRDF] Re: Parkinson's Disease use-case

Brian,

I think using the eutils query is a good first step for retrieving XML to
be converted to RDF, so I applaud your offer, and look forwards to us
using it.

cheers,
Eric


--- Brian Osborne <osborne1@optonline.net> wrote:

>
> Eric M.,
>
> I'm looking at the Piggy Bank scrapers at
> http://potlach.org/2005/10/scrapers/, I think we
> want to create an
> additional one that uses the results of an NCBI
> eutils query, the PubMed one
> is not well suited for the "Gene Neural related gene
> data" and "Protein
> Neural related protein data" tasks.
>
> I can provide the field-to-field mapping, XML to
> Uniprot RDF, and I believe
> I know what the eutils query is. Shall we proceed
> with this or did you have
> something else in mind?
>
> Brian O.
>
>
>
> On 3/8/06 9:08 AM, "Eric Miller" <em@w3.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Eric Neumann wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I have added a Parkinson's Disease (PD)
> information aggregation use-
> >> case on the wiki site:
> >>
> >> http://esw.w3.org/topic/ParkinsonsDisease
> >>
> >> Currently it has disease related information on
> implicated genes,
> >> causes, treatments, inheritance, and pathways. It
> eventually is to
> >> serve as a resource for one possible scientific
> scenario that
> >> effectively utilizes RDF structured data (and
> eventually
> >> ontologies) in support of neuroscience research.
> >
> > Excellent example! Use cases like this are
> extremely helpful in
> > putting the various tasks in an important context.
> In particular,
> > I've related the Parkinsons use case to the
> following Task...
> >
> > Create RDF to describe entries in NCBI database
> > -
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/
> > Gene_Neural_related_gene_data
> >
> > I'd appreciates thoughts on additional tasks that
> would be useful in
> > addressing this use case.
> >
> > Note: I recommend that tasks list people who are
> interested in
> > working on the particular problem.
> >
> >> Additional scientific scenarios are very much
> welcomed!
> >
> > agreed!
> >
> > --
> > eric miller
> http://www.w3.org/people/em/
> > semantic web activity lead
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
> > w3c world wide web consortium
> http://www.w3.org/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>


Eric Neumann
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Received on Monday, 13 March 2006 03:33:41 UTC