NCBO Webinar Series - Cecilia Arighi, September 1

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Dr. Cecilia Arighi from the
University of Delaware on "The Protein Ontology (PRO) and its web resources"
at 10:00am PDT, Wednesday, September 1.  Below is information on how to join
the online meeting via WebEx and accompanying teleconference. Please note
there will not be a VOIP option and attendees must call into the
teleconference.  For the full schedule of the NCBO Webinar presentations
see: http://www.bioontology.org/webinar-series .


ABSTRACT:
The Protein Ontology (PRO) provides the formal and logical representation of
proteins (including isoforms, variants and modified forms) and protein
complexes. PRO content is gathered either by manual curation from the
scientific literature or by large-scale processing of resources that provide
curated protein and pathway information. The information found in the
ontology, the annotation and the mapping files is stored in a database that
is used in the PRO website (http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro) to facilitate
data integration and easy data retrieval. The PRO homepage is the starting
point to navigate through the Protein Ontology resources, providing access
to quick browse, links to several documents and information pages, the ftp
download page, the term request and annotation pages, the ontology browser,
and the advanced search. In this seminar I will give a background on the
Protein Ontology, its content and the current web resources along with some
working examples.  PRO is part of the Open Biomedical Ontology Foundry and
it is funded by NIH.


SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Cecilia Arighi is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of
Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware. Dr. Arighi has a
Ph.D in Biochemistry and has worked in the bioinformatics field for the last
5 years after joining the Protein Information Resource (PIR) at Georgetown
University (currently co-hosted at University of Delaware). She is highly
interested in the accurate representation of protein information (e.g
sequence, evolution, function, post-translational modifications, and
pathways) that can be reasoned both by humans and computers to provide the
basis for hypothesis generation. Dr. Arighi has been trained as a biocurator
and has been actively engaged on various biocurator-related activities
including (i) curation and quality control (at PIR) for UniProtKB database;
(ii) curation of the Protein Ontology (PRO) and development of its curation
interface (RACE-PRO); (iii) the development (in collaboration with text
mining group) and evaluation of natural language processing tools to assist
the biologists in retrieving information about proteins; and the (iv)
organization of the interactive task for BioCreative III.  Within the
Protein Ontology project, she has been involved in the design of the protein
ontology framework, in leading the curation efforts, in community outreach
activities, and developing the PRO web resource.


WEBEX DETAILS:
Topic: NCBO Webinar Series
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 926 719 478
Meeting Password: ncbomeeting


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Trish Whetzel, PhD
Outreach Coordinator
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Ph: 650-721-2378
whetzel@stanford.edu
http://www.bioontology.org



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