Re: Semantic Web Challenge winner - in HCLS domain

Congratulations!   Well done!

We have some history at ISWC, and your email brings back fond memories of ISWC 2005 (Galway).
Both keynotes brought attention to life sciences. I was at Harvard and a Manchester at the time working on primarily BioPAX, the first application of OWL in the life sciences.
In preparation for her keynote, at Manchester, Carole Gable said to me “I’m going to use you [BioPAX] as our poster child.
And she did. She included several slides about the BioPAX work.  Some of you may recall that during the Q&A someone asked what application area she recommended, and she said “I told you, BioPAX, Joanne stand up (which I did), buy that woman a drink.”

Later, at the Bar, Tim (Berners-Lee) asked me for some slides for his keynote.  I have him a small select deck and he chose a Venn Diagram from a project I did (my company, Predictive Medicine) for / with Siderean Software (Mike DeLascio and David LaVigna).  He used that for a few years, until Richard came up with the linked open data cloud visualization.  He added the label BioPAX onto that slide, so it got recognition too, but the slide was about a drug discovery use case Susie Stephens supplied, she was at Oracle and working with Siderean.  In fact, we did the project for presentation at the Oracle Life Science Users Group meeting at BioIT that year.  At the time Eric Neumann was doing BioDASH with Dennis Quan.  I worked out and contributed the BioPAX signaling pathway model for that demo (which didn’t exist yet in BioPAX - then we were still working on Level 1, metabolic pathways).

Ahh, thanks for the reminiscing — and Congratulations!

Joanne

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On Nov 2, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Helena Deus <helenadeus@gmail.com<mailto:helenadeus@gmail.com>> wrote:

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

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