- From: M. Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:15:30 +0200
- To: Iker Huerga <ihuerga@linkatu.net>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
[Corrected Susie's e-mail. She's now at Johnson & Johnson.] On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:13 PM, M. Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Iker and Alberto, > > Thank you for joining us and especially for bringing these ideas to > hospitals. I have taken a peek at your demonstration URLs and it looks > very nice - very much in line with our interests. I look forward to > hearing more about it in the Translational Medicine call. > > As you have noticed, our group as a whole is interested in furthering > the aims of medicine with technology demonstrations that show how the > goals of translational medicine and personalized medicine can be more > easily reached when using linked data and shared vocabularies. > > I will attempt to *briefly* summarize what the currently active task > forces are doing: > > Scientific Discourse - planning a demonstration of linking literature > to experiments > BioRDF - working on a W3C note for expression RDF > Linked Open Drug Data (LODD) - working on a W3C note for emerging best > practices in life sciences RDF / linked data > Translational Medicine - pharmacogenomics modeling, biomarkers > Terminology - using an RDF representation of clinical reports from > radiology and pathology to alert clinicians to discrepancies > > To those in the task forces: Feel free to add to my very rough > descriptions above. > > I look forward to speaking with you in the TM call. > > Cheers, > Scott > > -- > M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls > http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Iker Huerga <ihuerga@linkatu.net> wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Let me introduce myself. My name is Iker Huerga founder of a Spanish >> start-up that recently joined W3C called LINKatu[1]. LINKatu aims to support >> data integration in life sciences and health care domain through Semantic >> Web technologies. In this context, Alberto Labarga [2] and I [3] joined >> HCLSIG in representation of LINKatu in order to try to contribute to the >> great work you are doing. >> >> Firs of all, we would like to congratulate all of you, we have been >> following your work for the last years and it is exceptional. >> >> But, at the moment we really do not know what are the tasks you are carrying >> out or in which ones we could fit better. So I have put online some >> prototypes so that you can figure out what are we working on from LINKatu. >> [4] [5] and [6] are mainly related to Breast Cancer early diagnosis and >> treatment while [7] is related to Alzheimer's disease. >> >> [4] is a SPARQL-driven app that retrieves useful information (Clinical >> Trials, meds and genes) for a specific patient. It automatically retrieves >> patient data from pathology and radiology reports but I have coded simple >> user menus so that you can test it. Just click on "get info" button and >> follow "More Info" links once the info is displayed. >> >> [5] is the prototype of the app that is being deployed in Cruces Hospital at >> Bilbao. It gathers the life cycle of a patient in the Breast Pathology >> Department from the first visit until after surgery. I do not have access to >> the Hospital's database from here but you can figure out what the biomarkers >> are using the menu bar. >> >> [6] this tool uses a basic Jena inference engine in order to provide helpful >> information for early diagnosis and treatment in breast cancer. Just use the >> left column menu. You can see the ontology we use, clicking on "Ontología" >> at the bottom of the menu (is a WebProtege server). >> >> [7] is another SPARQL-driven app for Translational Medicine in Alzheimer's >> disease. You can play the role of a patient, physician or researcher using >> the top menu tabs in order to navigate through the application. It is mainly >> based on the PharmaOntology project you published. >> >> I hope you find them interesting. >> >> Looking forward for your recommendations to start contributing to the Health >> Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. >> >> Best Regards. >> >> >> [1] http://linkatu.net/ >> [2] http://www.linkedin.com/in/albertolabarga >> [3] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/iker-huerga/20/546/a2a >> [4] http://85.48.202.13:8080/oncologico.jsp >> [5] http://85.48.202.13:8080/Cruces/index.jsp >> [6] http://85.48.202.13:8080/BreastCancer/BC.html >> [7] http://85.48.202.13:8080/AD/index.html >> >> -- >> Iker Huerga Sánchez >> Co-Founder, LINKatu >> Polo de Innovación Garaia >> Goiru, 1. Edificio A, 4º Piso >> 20500 Arrasate - Gipuzkoa >> T+34 943 712 072 F+34 943 712 223 >> ihuerga@linkatu.net >> http://www.linkatu.net >> >> >> > -- M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
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