Semantic Web Challenge winner - in HCLS domain

Dear All,

The judges of the ISWC 2013 Semantic Web Challenge chose as the winner
of the Big Data Track this year a work that fits entirely in the
health care/life sciences integration domain. This work would not have
been possible if it weren't for the fruitful conversations and
interactions enabled by this mailing list. So, congrats to all!

Here is an article about it in the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131030-909839.html?dsk=y


"Big Data Track challenge winner:

"Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data" by Muhammad Saleem,
Maulik R. Kamdar, Aftab Iqbal, Shanmukha Sampath, Helena F. Deus and
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo; this system shows how high volume and high
velocity of latest published bio-medical research papers from PubMed
can be intelligently and semantically integrated within the Linked
Cancer Genome Atlas dataset (TCGA), thus supporting and facilitating
cancer researchers in their important work.

"We were very impressed to see this year's challengers address real
world problems and in some cases already see them having a societal
impact. The winners of the 2013 SWC have successfully combined
innovative semantic web technology with an end user practical focus
and efficiency in use," explained SWC co-chairs Andreas Harth,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Sean Bechhofer, University of
Manchester."


Kind Regards,
Helena

-- 
Helena F. Deus, PhD
Senior Scientist, Medical Knowledge Engineer
Foundation Medicine, Inc
http://lenadeus.info/

Received on Saturday, 2 November 2013 14:08:15 UTC