NCBO Webinar - Phil Bourne, June 16

The next NCBO Webinar will be held Wednesday, June 16 at 10:00am PT. Please
note there will not be a VOIP option and attendees must call into the
teleconference.

The Webinar will be presented by Dr. Philip E. Bourne, Professor in the
Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences at the University of California San Diego. The title of the
presentation will be "The Role of Ontologies in Improved Scholarly
Communication". Below is information on how to join the online meeting and
accompanying teleconference. For a schedule of the 2010 presentations or for
more information about the NCBO Seminar series, see:
http://www.bioontology.org/seminar-series.

TITLE: The Role of Ontologies in Improved Scholarly Communication

ABSTRACT:
We would argue that current modes of scholarly communication are outdated in
an era increasingly dominated by Internet access and new business models. We
are beginning to think beyond the PDF to how the full power of the medium
can be unleashed to further comprehension and learning. Such changes involve
improved data and literature integration, the use of rich media etc. While
not ontology experts, it is clear to us that ontologies need to play a major
role if this paradigm shift is to happen. I will describe a few of our
efforts in this regard with illustrative examples from BioLit (
biolit.ucsd.edu), SciVee (www.scivee.tv) and our development of a MS Word
plugin (ucsdbiolit.codeplex.com).


SPEAKER BIO:
Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of
California San Diego,  Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank and
an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute. He is a Past President of the
International Society for Computational Biology. He is an elected fellow of
the American Medical Informatics Association. He is the Founding
Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology.
Bourne's professional interests focus on relevant biological and educational
outcomes derived from computation and scholarly communication. This implies
algorithms, text mining, machine learning, metalanguages, biological
databases, and visualization applied to problems in drug discovery,
evolution, cell signaling, apoptosis, systems biology and scientific
dissemination.


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Topic: NCBO Webinar Series
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 929 613 752
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