RE: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Hi,
I am not sure that I know of an article on exactly what you are looking for. However, I thought you may be interested in looking into one of our recent articles in BMC Bioinformatics and also at some of the references available within it.
This article's focus is especially on enabling computational cell biology through shared federated data resources envisaged by Semantic Web community.
I am also enclosing a preprint which can also be downloaded from the Biomedcentral site given below.

For any additional questions you may also contact the authors listed in the publication.

With regards,
T N Bhat



New concepts for building vocabulary for cell image ontologies
BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:487 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-487
Anne L Plant (anne.plant@nist.gov)
John T Elliott (john.elliott@nist.gov)
Talapady N Bhat (talapady.bhat@nist.gov)
ISSN 1471-2105
Article type Research article
Submission date 11 June 2011
Acceptance date 21 December 2011
Publication date 21 December 2011
Article URL http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/487

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From: Oliver Ruebenacker [mailto:curoli@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:39 AM
To: public-semweb-lifesci
Subject: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

     Hello,

  I am looking for evidence I can quote to convince non-experts of the significance of applying Semantic Web to biomedical research, especially computational cell biology.

  I need a recorded public statement from a source recognizable as authoritative to a non-expert: e.g. could be from a relevant government agency, a well-known research institution (including major grad schools and companies), a well-known (i.e. well-known outside the
field) expert, some one where a brief look at the biography immediately suggests he or she is an authority, some one quoted in major media, etc.

  Significance could mean abstract things like advancing science and health care, but even better would be tangible things like: saves lives, saves money, cures cancer/malaria/AIDS, creates jobs, etc.

  Thanks a lot!

     Take care
     Oliver

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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org)
SBPAX: Turning Bio Knowledge into Math Models (http://www.sbpax.org) http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org