Extreme Nano “All the Web can do is find a document for you and display it for you,” said Wilbanks. “The semantic web marks things up in a more concrete manner; it says that there are relationships.” For example, a scientist could search for peer-reviewed articles about a particular gene, data related to that gene, [...]

Bio-IT World.com The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the formation of a new group that seeks to bring life scientists and Semantic Web experts together to help improve the way data is accessed, shared, and analyzed. Specifically, the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) aims to help life scientists [...]

Genetic Engineering News The major conference tracks are: IT/Informatics Solutions for Drug Discovery: This track will feature several multi-speaker sessions exploring the critical ways that organizations are deploying information technology and informatics solutions to further drug discovery. Topics to be covered include: The Semantic Web; Systems Biology and Simulation; Discovery Informatics; IT Infrastructure; Computational Drug [...]

Bio-IT World.com In the fall of 2004, believing that the data interoperability challenge facing the life sciences was the poster child for this new technology, the W3C hosted a workshop on Semantic Web for the life sciences. Evidently the two groups were working on some similar problems. “I asked myself, was the mission of the [...]

Bio-IT World Tonya Hongsermeier, corporate manager, clinical knowledge management and decision support at Partners HealthCare System, and her colleague Vipul Kashyap, senior medical informatician at Partners, discussed some of the work the company is doing with Semantic Web -based decision support systems. “We need an actionable decision support system that works in the context of [...]

in-PharmaTechnologist.com Network Inference’s Cerebra Server Platform combines with BioWisdom’s comprehensive ontologies and deep domain expertise to enable discovery and innovation. They attempt to discover and show associations using a multi-relational ontology. She summarised by saying the knowledge management landscape was changing, whereby the old technology-enabled data management model was gradually being replaced with technology enabled [...]

Onlypunjab.com IBM and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, announced today that they are working together to study how the development of a grid-based, distributed computing infrastructure can facilitate improved collaboration and information sharing among cancer researchers. Working with leading cancer researcher Dr. Thomas Deisboeck, M.D., of MGH’s Martinos Center [...]

News-Medical.Net UK scientists have designed a knowledge management system which could enable medical practitioners to make speedy, informed decisions about breast cancer patients. The project pulls together information which was previously held in separate locations and it has the potential to revolutionize patient diagnosis and management The MIAKT project (Medical Imaging with Advanced Knowledge Technologies), [...]