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Summary
Summary
This book introduces advanced semantic web technologies, illustrating their utility and highlighting their implementation in biological, medical, and clinical scenarios. It covers topics ranging from database, ontology, and visualization to semantic web services and workflows. The volume also details the factors impacting on the establishment of the semantic web in life science and the legal challenges that will impact on its proliferation.
Author Notes
Christopher Baker is a Principle Investigator at the Knowledge Discovery Department of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Dr Baker was formerly Bioinformatics Project Manager of the Génome Québec funded project, 'Ontologies, the semantic web and intelligent systems for genomics' where he coordinated the application of knowledge management technologies to fungal genomic data sets. Prior to this he was Group Leader In-silico Discovery at Ecopia BioSciences Inc. where he masterminded key portions of the DecipherIT(tm) bioinformatics software suite and managed the genomic annotation team. Dr Baker received post doctoral training at Iogen Corporation and the University of Toronto after completing his Ph. D. studies in Environmental Microbiology and Enzymology at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
Dr. Cheung is currently an Associate Professor at the Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Cheung is a bioinformatician with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has established a broad base of collaboration with life scientists, computational biologists, and computer scientists. Dr. Cheung has published extensively in the field of bioinformatics. He is one of the core faculty members in the Yale Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. In addition, he is a Principal Investigator of two research grants (one was awarded by the National Institutes of Health and the other was awarded by the National Science Foundation). Dr. Cheung's research interests include biological database and tool integration. Recently, Dr. Cheung has embarked on the research and development of Semantic Web in the bioscience domain.
Table of Contents
Dedication | p. v |
Contributing Authors | p. xi |
Preface | p. xix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Part I Database and Literature Integration | p. 9 |
Chapter 1 Semantic Web Approach to Database Integration in the Life Sciences | p. 11 |
Chapter 2 Querying Semantic Web Contents: A Case Study | p. 31 |
Chapter 3 Knowledge Acquisition from the Biomedical Literature | p. 53 |
Part II Ontologies in the Life Sciences | p. 83 |
Chapter 4 Biological Ontologies | p. 85 |
Chapter 5 Clinical Ontologies for Discovery Applications | p. 101 |
Chapter 6 Ontology Engineering for Biological Applications | p. 121 |
Chapter 7 The Evaluation of Ontologies: Toward Improved Semantic Interoperability | p. 139 |
Chapter 8 OWL for the Novice: A Logical Perspective | p. 159 |
Part III Ontology Visualization | p. 183 |
Chapter 9 Techniques for Ontology Visualization | p. 185 |
Chapter 10 On Visualization of OWL Ontologies | p. 205 |
Part IV Ontologies in Action | p. 223 |
Chapter 11 Applying OWL Reasoning to Genomic Data | p. 225 |
Chapter 12 Can Semantic Web Technologies Enable Translational Medicine? | p. 249 |
Chapter 13 Ontology Design for Biomedical Text Mining | p. 281 |
Part V Using Distributed Knowledge | p. 315 |
Chapter 14 SemBOWSER - Semantic Biological Web Services Registry | p. 317 |
Chapter 15 Agent Technologies in the Life Sciences | p. 341 |
Chapter 16 Knowledge Discovery for Biology with Taverna: Producing and Consuming Semantics in the Web of Science | p. 355 |
Part VI On the Success of Semantic Web in the Life Sciences | p. 397 |
Chapter 17 Factors Influencing the Adoption of the Semantic Webin theLife Sciences | p. 399 |
Chapter 18 Semantic Web Standards: Legal and Social Issues and Implications | p. 413 |
Index | p. 435 |
Notes | p. 446 |