Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
A 4 Hour Tutorial
Tuesday August 23, 10 am – 3 pm
NEW Location at:
Semantx Life Science, Suite 230, 330 Bear Hill Road, Waltham
Introduction to the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
Biologists heavily use the web, but the web is geared much more toward human interaction than
automated processing. While the web gives biologists access to information, it does not allow them to
easily integrate different data sources or to incorporate additional analysis tools. The Semantic Web
addresses these problems using ontologies, by intelligently annotating web resources and by providing
reasoning and retrieval facilities from heterogeneous sources.
This tutorial introduces the basic languages of the Semantic Web from the point of view of the life
sciences, especially bioinformatics. The objective is to cover the major web ontology languages, what
they mean and how they are used. The emphasis will be on pragmatic application issues.
The goal is for participants to have an understanding of the Semantic Web sufficient for them to be able
to make decisions about whether and how to use the Semantic Web to better achieve goals within their
organizations.
Tutorial Leader Profile
Ken Baclawski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He is also
affiliated with the Division of Preventive Medicine of Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the Harvard
Medical School. His primary research area is formal ontologies, and he has been actively working in the
area of biomedical ontologies since 1992. He is co-founder of Jarg Corporation and it’s SemanTx Life
Sciences, Inc. subsidiary. Prof. Baclawski has been active in the development of the Semantic Web
since it was first proposed; being part of the team that developed the DAML+OIL language, later
renamed the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
Prof. Baclawski and Prof. Tianhua Niu of the Harvard Medical School have written a book on the subject
of the tutorial, titled Ontologies for Bioinformatics. The book is scheduled to ship in September, 2005.
MIT PRESS Series: Computational Molecular Biology "Ontologies for Bioinformatics" Kenneth
Baclawski and Tianhua Niu; ISBN 0-262-02591-4 7 x 9, 440 pp., 70 illus. $45.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
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Tuesday August 23, 10 am – 3 pm
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A light lunch is provided
Attendance fees will be applied toward the direct cost of the lunch and meeting materials.
Checks are to be made out and mailed to the event host at the address below:
Jarg Corporation
330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 230
Waltham, MA 02451
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