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Biomedical ontologies: a functional perspective |
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The information explosion in biology makes it difficult for researchers to stay abreast of current biomedical knowledge and to make sense of the massive amounts of online information. Ontologies - specifications of the entities, their attributes and relationships among the entities in a domain of discourse - are increasingly enabling biomedical researchers to accomplish these tasks. In fact, bio-ontologies are beginning to proliferate in step with accruing biological data. |
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Open eHealth Foundation to Provide Solid Basis for Interoperability |
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Open eHealth Foundation announced that Agfa HealthCare, eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have joined as foundation members of the new Open eHealth Foundation, an Open Source initiative that is unique in the healthcare IT arena. The Open eHealth Foundation will provide software components under an Open Source license that will boost the open standards-based exchange of medical information. |
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Ontology-driven knowledge management |
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Under the auspices of the PARMENIDES project an ontology editor tool was developed for faster searches in structured and unstructured heterogeneous, autonomous, data repositories. The expansion of e-commerce has brought new needs in the content management activities of businesses. This is due to the fact that required information may come from either internal or external sources to the company. Moreover, modern analytical software has become more proactive in driving business processes on the basis of analysis results. |
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Unilever Extends Collaboration with Transinsight in the Field of Semantic Searching |
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Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, will continue working with Transinsight towards a tailored solution from GoPubMed that meets Unilever Research's diverse scientific data mining requirements. Today's searching is mostly split between Internet and intranet searches. |
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FP7 Health Research Service Unveiled by CORDIS |
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CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Service, has launched a new health research web service for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). It will provide a highly informative portal on this major theme, which comes under the umbrella of the FP7 Cooperation programme. The health of Europe's citizens is the priority for health research, followed by improving the performance of health-related businesses and tackling global health issues. |
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New Online Social Network, BioMedExperts, to Improve Collaboration Among Medical Researchers |
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Collexis Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced the debut of BioMedExperts - the first online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers and therefore advance medical science. Collexis launched the new service with more than 1.4 million pre-generated profiles of its expected users from across 120 countries and expects to grow by another two million profiles over the next few months. |
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DILS 2008 Call for Papers |
5th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Evry, France, June 25-27 2008
For several years now, there has been an exponential growth of the amount of life science data (e.g., sequenced complete genomes, 3D structures, DNA chips, Mass spectroscopy data) generated by high throughput experiments. |
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SEKT - SEmantic Knowledge Technologies |
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SEKT's goal is the management of knowledge through its underlying meaning coupled with the integration of knowledge from heterogeneous sources. This leads to an information-centric, rather than a document-centric approach, in which the user is presented with useful knowledge rather than mere lists of documents. |
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The Information and Communication Technologies theme of the Cooperation Programme announced its Third call for proposals on 4 December 2007. The ICT theme was launched focusing on seven strategic Challenges for the seven years of this Framework programme. |
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Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop |
Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop held in conjunction with The 17th International World Wide Web Conference, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China.
Biomedical researchers need to be able to ask questions that span many heterogeneous data sources in order to make well-informed decisions. For this to be achieved, data about drugs, patients, diseases, genes, proteins, and pathways must be effectively integrated. Yet the integration of disparate biomedical data continues to be a challenge to achieve.
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