NCBO Webinar: Genomic annotation, enrichment and prediction of concepts in diverse biomedical ontologies - Apr. 24 at 10am PDT

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented TOMORROW by Sean Mooney from the
Buck Institute for Research on Aging on "Genomic annotation, enrichment and
prediction of concepts in diverse biomedical ontologies" at 10:00am PDT,
Wednesday, Apr. 24.  Below is information on how to join the online meeting
via WebEx and accompanying teleconference. For the full schedule of the
NCBO Webinar presentations see: http://www.bioontology.org/webinar-series.


ABSTRACT:
For the past several years, we have been developing tools to aid
researchers in the interpretation of genomic and proteomic high throughput
experimental datasets. To this end, we have, in collaboration with the
NCBO, developed tools for the annotation of curated text describing genes
and proteins.  Using these annotations we have developed web-based and
Cytoscape tools for visualization, enrichment analysis, and prediction of
concepts from a diverse library of biomedical ontologies. Simultaneously,
we served as the assessing group for the first Critical Assessment of
Function Annotation (CAFA) that evaluated how well researchers predict
future Gene Ontology terms that are experimentally validated.  In this
talk, I will give an overview of the status of CAFA and I will describe
possible paths toward utilizing other ontologies such as concepts from
human diseases.  I will also describe our tools and some of the successes
that have come from their use.


SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Sean Mooney is a group leader in the fields of computational biology
and bioinformatics, and manages an active NIH funded laboratory. He
received his PhD from UCSF in 2001 under Prof. Teri Klein and did an
American Cancer Society Fellowship under Prof. Russ Altman at Stanford. In
addition to collaborative activities in bioinformatics, his primary
research interests focus on building and applying computational models to
understand how genes and genetic variation alters phenotype or causes
disease at the protein level.   He also has an interest in developing new
tools for understanding high thoughput experimental datasets. He is
currently an Associate Professor and Director of Bioinformatics at the Buck
Institute for Research on Aging in Novato California.


WEBEX DETAILS:
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Meeting information
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Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 926 474 735
Meeting Password: ncbo

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To start or join the online meeting
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Audio conference information
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Access code:926 474 735



Trish Whetzel, PhD
Outreach Coordinator
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Ph: 650-721-2378
http://www.bioontology.org

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