Re: Semantic Web Challenge winner - in HCLS domain

happy days...

Carole
(General Chair ISWC 2014)
> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Helena F. Deus, PhD
>> Senior Scientist, Medical Knowledge Engineer
>> Foundation Medicine, Inc
>> http://lenadeus.info/
>>
>


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Professor Carole Goble FREng FBCS CITP
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK

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