Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Hi Oliver,

Recently, Amit P. Sheth sent around the attached article that also will
help you use as evidence.

Regards,
Amrapali J Zaveri
http://aksw.org/AmrapaliZaveri



On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Michael Miller <
Michael.Miller@systemsbiology.org> wrote:

> hi joanne,
>
> interesting article.  but do they use RDF?  i don't have a subscription so
> couldn't read more than the abstract but my impression was that they used
> a general network model, not an RDF graph.
>
> cheers,
> michael
>
> Michael Miller
> Software Engineer
> Institute for Systems Biology
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joanne Luciano [mailto:jluciano@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:23 PM
> > To: Oliver Ruebenacker
> > Cc: public-semweb-lifesci; "eScience"; tw-hcls@cs.rpi.edu
> > Subject: Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences
> >
> > This if interest in science news:
> > http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337088/title/Network_analysi
> > s_predicts_drug_side_effects
> >
> > Sent from my iPad 2
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:39, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >     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
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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
> > >
>
>