NCBO Seminar Series-Meeting Info for Wed, Sept 24th!

Hello,

Please join the NCBO for an online Seminar Series presentation this
Wednesday, September 24th, at 10am PDT. 

Below is Information on how to join this week's online meeting and
accompanying teleconference. This week's meeting, Semantics and Services
Enabled Problem Solving Environment for Trypanosoma cruzi, will be
presented by Dr. Amit Sheth of the Kno.e.sis Center. To see the full
abstract for this presentation, please visit:
http://www.bioontology.org/videos/PSE_talk.html.

This series aims to showcase new projects, technologies and ideas in
biomedical ontology by featuring the work of a different collaborator
each session. It is a webinar held online, and as such is open to anyone
interested, regardless of location or affiliation. 

Information on how to join this week's webinar is given below. To
receive information on or to join any future meetings, please contact me
at skanel@stanford.edu. More Information about the series, including the
schedule and videos of previous sessions can be found at
http://www.bioontology.org/seminar_series.html.

The sponsoring organization, the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(http://www.bioontology.org), is a consortium of leading biologists,
clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative
technology and methods allowing scientists to create, disseminate, and
manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form.


We hope to see you there.



ABSTRACT:

Semantics and Services Enabled Problem Solving Environment for
Trypanosoma cruzi
(Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University; University of Georgia
(CTEGD, LSDIS); NCBO, Stanford University)

T.cruzi is a protozoan parasite and a relative of other human pathogens
that cause African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The use of
industrial scale experimental methods has led to an enormous increase in
the size of available datasets. These dynamic datasets, addressing
different but logically related aspects, are distributed over multiple
databases that undergo frequent additions and curation. In the Semantic
and Services-enabled Problem Solving Environment for T.cruzi project we
are creating a comprehensive infrastructure for management, querying,
analysis and visualization of scientific data to enable the scientist to
more quickly lead to  answer complex queries such as "What are the
diagnostic techniques to identify antigens in T.cruzi?", using the
following approaches:
1.      Semantic provenance-enabled cyberinfrastructure for T.cruzi
experimental data to enable the verification of scientific results and
validation of experimental process.

2.      Semantic text processing and analysis approaches for extraction
of knowledge from biomedical literature

3.      A Semantic services-based smart mashups (Web 2.0) environment
for T.cruzi

4.      Query interface for complex query formulation and execution
underpinned by ontology and services

In this talk, Amit Sheth <http://knoesis.wright.edu/amit>  (PI) will
discuss the details associated with each of the four approaches, the
preliminary work and the objectives for the first year of this project.
Project web page provides further information:
http://knoesis.wright.edu/research/semsci/application_domain/sem_life_sc
i/tcruzi_pse/

 

Topic: NCBO Seminar Series 
 Date: The 4th Wednesday of every 1 months, from Wednesday, September
24, 2008 to no end date 
 Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco) 
Meeting Number: 926 719 478 
 Meeting Password: ncbomeeting 


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Shauna B. Kanel
Communications Coordinator & Web Editor
Stanford University
Division of Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR)
National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)
 
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