Re: Systems Biology Task Force Kick-Off - tomorrow (Feb 22) at 11AM EDT

Hi Anita,

That is a great idea - Michael Miller (from Institute of Systems Biology in
Seattle) was on the call and he mentioned that one of the major uses of
semantic web technologies for systems biology is still literature mining,
in which capturing epistemic information would be of the utmost importance.

My hope is that we can ultimately integrate models with models and models
with data. Do you think that, once we have self-building models we can use
that to support modelling epidemic information?

Best,
Lena

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Waard, Anita de A (ELS-NYC) <
A.dewaard@elsevier.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I was struck by the phrase 'turning biological knowledge into mathematical
> models' and wondering if anyone is interested to model 'epistemic
> information' in biology articles, added to the knowledge of the type that
> Oliver mentioned?
>
> In particular I am interested in modelling clauses such as 1 a., 2 a., 3
> a., and 3.b in the sentences below - I have a model to classify these and
> would like to add this 'knowledge attribution' layer to existing
> representations of triples in papers.
>
> 1 a. These studies have shown that
> 1.b. the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) can be complex
>
> vs.
>
> 2. a. It has been reported that
> 2. b. 5' untranslated exons, and sometimes introns, can regulate the
> expression of genes in two different ways.
>
> vs.
>
> 3. a. Thus, our analysis revealed areas of active chromatin remodeling in
> the vicinity of exon 1
> 3. b. suggesting that
> 3. c. this area may be important for CCR3 transcription.
>
> Is this part of the remit of this group and/or is anyone interested in
> collaborating on this topic?
>
> Thanks,
> Best,
>
> - Anita.
>
> Anita de Waard
> Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs
> http://elsatglabs.com/labs/anita/
> a.dewaard@elsevier.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Ruebenacker [mailto:curoli@gmail.com]
> Sent: Fri 2/24/2012 11:55
> To: Helena Deus; public-semweb-lifesci
> Subject: Re: Systems Biology Task Force Kick-Off - tomorrow (Feb 22) at
> 11AM EDT
>
>
>     Hello Helena, All,
>
>  I'm interested in joining the Systems Biology Taskforce. Sorry I
> could not make the initial call. My interest is turning biological
> knowledge into mathematical models, automatically. A brief description
> is below.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>     Take care
>     Oliver
>
>  Living organisms are so enormously complex that we need computer
> simulations to understand the consequences of their vast biochemical
> reaction networks. As we uncover an increasing part of these networks,
> our established knowledge is increasingly stored in free web databases
> and available for query and download in machine-readable formats,
> especially in the RDF/OWL-based community standard Biological Pathways
> Exchange (BioPAX) [1]. The available data is massive and growing, e.g.
> Pathway Commons [2] stores 1,700 pathways, 414 organisms, 440,000
> interactions and 86,000 substances. This data is fully linked with
> open controlled terminologies such as gene ontology (e.g. anatomical
> features) [3] and other free online databases such as ChEBI
> (chemicals) [4], KEGG (genes a.o.) [5], UniProt (proteins) [6] and
> PubMed (publications) [7].
>
>  Automatic use of this knowledge for computer simulations of
> biological organisms has been an ongoing challenge [8,9,10]. Now,
> Systems Biology Pathway Exchange (SBPAX) [11], a BioPAX extension,
> allows the inclusion of quantitative data and systems biology terms,
> especially the Systems Biology Ontology (SBO) [12]. SBPAX support has
> been implemented by the Virtual Cell [13], Signaling Gateway Molecule
> Pages [14] and System for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways -
> Reaction Kinetics (SABIO-RK) [15]. For the first time, a mathematical
> model can be automatically built and fully annotated from a pathway of
> interest.
>
>  Citations:
>
>  [1] Biological Pathway Exchange (BioPAX), www.biopax.org
>  [2] Pathway Commons, www.pathwaycommons.org
>  [3] Gene Ontology (GO), www.geneontology.org/
>  [4] Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI),
> www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/
>  [5] Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), wwww.genome.jp/kegg/
>  [6] UniProt, www.uniprot.org
>  [7] PubMed, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
>  [8] Modeling without Borders: Creating and Annotating VCell Models
> Using the Web, Michael L. Blinov, Oliver Ruebenacker, James C. Schaff
> and Ion I. Moraru,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume
> 6053 (2010).
>  [9] Using views of Systems Biology Cloud: application for model
> building, Oliver Ruebenacker, Michael Blinov, Theory in Biosciences,
> Volume 130, Number 1, 45-54 (2010).
>  [10] Integrating BioPAX pathway knowledge with SBML models, Michael
> L Blinov, Oliver Ruebenacker, Ion I Moraru, IET Syst. Biol., 2009,
> Vol. 3, Iss. 5, pp. 317-328 (2009).
>  [11] Systems Biology Pathway Exchange (SBPAX), www.sbpax.org
>  [12] Systems Biology Ontology, www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/
>  [13] Virtual Cell, http://vcell.org
>  [14] Signaling Gateway Molecule Pages,
> www.signaling-gateway.org/molecule/
>  [15] System for the Analysis of Biological Pathways - Reaction
> Kinetics (SABIO-RK), http://sabio.villa-bosch.de/
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Helena Deus <helenadeus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Please join me tomorrow for the kick-off telco of the Systems Biology
> Task
> > Force. Systems Biology is about looking at biological systems from an
> > integrated perspective and to use that perspective to understand
> disease. We
> > will be discussing the general goals, strategy and structure of the task
> > force.
> >
> > Please see http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/SysBio for an initial
> motivation,
> > and description, of what this task will be focused on (with due
> flexibility
> > according to participants input).
> >
> >
> > * Date of Call: Tuesday February 21, 2012
> > * Time of Call: 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
> > * Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA)
> > * [Note: limited access to European dial in numbers below]
> > * Dial-In #: +33.4.26.46.79.03 (Nice, France)
> > * Dial-In #: +44.203.318.0479 (Bristol, UK)
> > * Participant Access Code: 4257 ("HCLS").
> > * IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #HCLS
> > For instant IRC access:
> > see [http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/ W3C IRC page] for details, or
> > see [http://cgi.w3.org/member-bin/irc/irc.cgi Web IRC]), Quick Start:
> Click
> > on
> > [http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.w3.org:6665&channel=%23hcls
>  mibbit]
> >
> > * Duration: ~1h
> > * Convener: Helena
> > * Scribe: TBD
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Helena
>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
>
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Helena F. Deus
Post-Doctoral Researcher at DERI/NUIG
http://lenadeus.info/