- From: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:58:16 -0500
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, olivier@nlm.nih.gov
- Cc: eric neumann <ekneumann@gmail.com>, Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, Susie M Stephens <STEPHENS_SUSIE_M@lilly.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, Holger Stenzhorn <holger.stenzhorn@deri.org>, Ernest.Lim@Yale.edu, Luis Marenco <luis.marenco@yale.edu>
Hi Olivier, Alan, et al, A prototype version of our neuroscience semantic web portal is accessible at: http://neuroweb3.med.yale.edu Bear in mind, this is a working prototype for proof of concept and it is still under active development. The Web interface has 3 panels: search panel (on top), facet panel (below the search panel on the left) and data panel (below the search panel on the right). The user can enter a key word and select a facet and data sources (ontologies) against which the key word is searched. The search results are displayed and organized based on the selected facet. Each leaf node (neuron, neuron property, gene, or drug target (receptor)) of the facet tree can be selected for retrieving more detailed information from each of the selected data sources. Currently, we have implemented 4 facets: neuron (default), neuron properties, gene, and drug. While the first two facets were created based on the SenseLab and CCDB ontologies, gene facet was created based on GO's molecular functions and the drug facet was created based on ChEBI. I think MeSH can potentially be a source for creating new facets (e.g., diseases, drug actions, etc) ... Also, I have a question regarding retrieval of entez gene information including gene ids, symbols, and snyonyms. Is such information available from the HCLS KB and/or RDF entrez gene dataset that Olivier's group had created? Cheers, -Kei Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Olivier Bodenreider wrote: > >> eric neumann wrote: >>> I haven't been good at following the calls lately, but still am >>> sympathetic to the endeavor and committed to helping as I can (just >>> not quite efficiently). >> Starting with MeSH might be a good idea as it it does not have the >> intellectual restrictions inherent to other sources in the UMLS. >> Moreover, MeSH is available in XML and could be easily transformed >> into RDF, allowing for a possible resolution of the URIs. > > There is already one RDF translation in the KB (script from Van Assem > et. al., modified by Jonathan). This is in to SKOS. There's also a > prototype uri scheme that we used in the demo, if you are looking for > a model. > > -Alan > >> >> -- Olivier >> >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> On Feb 11, 2008 9:58 AM, Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at >>> <mailto:samwald@gmx.at>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have also added several ideas to the wiki page [1]: >>> >>> * OBO Structured Digital Abstracts >>> * SIOC for Science >>> * OntoWiki and Semantic MediaWiki >>> * HCLS KB Decentralisation >>> * Define a simplified OWL-to-RDF mapping for a subset of OWL >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Matthias Samwald >>> Semantic Web Company / DERI Galway / Yale Center for Medical >>> Informatics >>> >>> [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Brainstorming >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
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