Re: Notes from informal Demo F2F / "aha"

Eric Neumann wrote:
> [...]
>
> It was also apparent that we need to identify what the specific "aha" 
> or "cool factor" is in the demo when shown to the select audience; it 
> appears to me taht it should be about the RDF or OWL nature of the 
> data, federated SPARQL querying, and ability to add new data or 
> annotations and get even more out of the construct.
>
I usually get a "aha" moment with an animation I created to show that an 
integrated resource is more than the sum of its parts. The "aha" slide 
is attached is for a paper that was just accepted for presentation at 
Medinfo next summer (much less ambitious than the demo, but well 
received so far).

Sahoo S, Zeng K, Bodenreider O, Sheth AP.
 From "glycosyltransferase" to "congenital muscular dystrophy": 
Integrating knowledge from NCBI Entrez Gene and the Gene Ontology.
Medinfo 2007:(accepted).
http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pdf/2007-medinfo-ss.pdf

(If somebody has a need for the RDF version of Entrez Gene we created, 
we are of course willing to share.)

-- Olivier