NCBO Seminar Series - Bjoern Peters, Sept. 16

Hello All!

The next NCBO Seminar will be held Wednesday, September 16 at 10am PT.
Please note there will not be a VOIP option and attendees must call into the
teleconference.

The seminar will be presented by Bjoern Peters, Assistant Member at the La
Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. The title of the presentation
will be “Representing the Immune Epitope Database in OWL”. Below is
information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying
teleconference. For a schedule of the 2009 presentations or for more
information about the NCBO Seminar series, see:
http://www.bioontology.org/seminar-series.


Title: Representing the Immune Epitope Database in OWL

Abstract: Vast amounts of biomedical information are stored in relational
databases. Several of these use ontologies to better communicate the meaning
and context of their data. However, most often ontology terms are only used
to represent in a limited number of fields in a database. An ontology, in
this context, essentially functions as a controlled vocabulary and few
formal relations are used between database fields. We argue that a full
representation of biomedical database content using a principled approach to
ontology, encoded using a formal language such as OWL provides significant
benefits. These include data consistency checks, the ability to formulate
highly expressive queries, and the potential for seamless interoperability
with other data resources. We report on our efforts to make such a
representation available for the Immune Epitope Database.


Topic: NCBO Seminar Series
Date: The 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every 1 months
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
Meeting Number: 926 719 478
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Trish Whetzel, PhD
Outreach Coordinator
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Ph: 650-721-2378
whetzel@stanford.edu
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