SEMANTIC WEB FOR HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES WORKSHOP
APRIL 22, 2008
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.
Many organizations are now exploring the use of Semantic Web technologies in the hope of easing the effort of data integration. The benefits promised by the Semantic Web include aggregation of heterogeneous data using explicit semantics, simplified annotation and sharing of findings, the expression of rich and well-defined models for data aggregation and search, easier reuse of data in unanticipated ways, and the application of logic to infer additional insights.
W3C has established the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLSIG) Interest Group to help organizations in their adoption of the Semantic Web. The HCLSIG is chartered to develop and support the use of Semantic Web technologies to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the domains of Health Care and Life Sciences. As a part of realizing this vision, we are organizing a workshop on the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences in conjunction with WWW2008.
Program
Time |
Presentation Title |
Presenter |
08.30 - 08.45 |
Welcome |
Workshop Chairs |
08.45 - 09.35 |
Scaling the Walls of Discovery: Using Semantic Metadata for Integrative Problem Solving |
Greg Tucker-Kellogg |
09.35 - 10.00 |
Modeling the Pharmacogenomics of Depression with OWL 1.1 |
Michel Dumontier, Muhammed Faizan, Joseph Obeng, and Natalia Villanueva-Rosales |
10.00 - 10.30 |
Break |
|
10.30 - 10.55 |
Web Ontology Engineering and Applications: A Case Study in Chinese Medicine |
Yuxin Mao and Zhaohui Wu |
10.55 - 11.20 |
Capturing and Modeling Neuro-radiological Knowledge on a Community Basis, the Head Injury Scenario |
Alexander Garcia, Zhuo Zhang, Menaka Rajapakse, Christopher Baker and Suisheng Tang |
11.20 - 11.40 |
A Scale-Out RDF Molecule Store for Distributed Processing of Biomedical Data |
Andrew Newman, Jane Hunter, Yuan-Fang Li, Chris Bouton and Melissa Davis |
11.40 - 12.00 |
Semantic Graph Mining for Biomedical Complex Network Analysis |
Tong Yu and Huajun Chen |
12.00 - 1.30 |
Lunch |
|
1.30 - 2.20 |
BioMoby and CardioSHARE: Attempting to Merge the Semantic Web and Web Services Worlds |
Mark Wilkinson |
2.20- 2.40 |
Entrez Neuron: an OWL/RDFa–based Web Application for Information Exploration and Integration in Neuroscience |
Matthias Samwald, Ernest Lim, Peter Masiar, Luis Marenco, Huajun Chen, Thomas Morse, Gordon Shepherd, Perry Miller and Kei Cheung |
2.40 - 3.00 |
Linked Data in a Scientific Collaboration Framework |
Sudeshna Das, Thomas Green, Louis Weitzaman, Alister Lewis-Bowen and Tim Clark |
3.00 - 3.30 |
Break |
|
3.30 - 3.50 |
Finding Experts for Clinical Trial Submission |
Matthias Löbe Roland Mücke and Christian Eder |
3.50 - 4.50 |
Panel: Integrating Semantic Web Communities in Health Care and Life Sciences |
Chris Baker, Xue Qiao Hou, Jeff Pan, Greg Tucker-Kellogg, and Mark Wilkinson |
4.50 - 5.00 |
Wrap Up |
Workshop Chairs |
Audience
The workshop encourages participation from industry and academia with an emphasis on the practical aspects of applying Semantic Web technologies to the challenges of Health Care and the Life Sciences. We encourage participation from Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies, Health Care Organizations, Universities and Research Institutes, IT Vendors, and Government Agencies.
Important Dates
- Final version of accepted papers for inclusion on conference CD: February 29, 2008
Program Committee
Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant
- Christopher Baker, A-STAR
- Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Keith Boyce, ImmuneTolerance
- Cory Brouwer, Pfizer
- Bill Bug, UCSD
- Helen Chen, AGFA
- William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Tim Clark, Harvard University
- Sudeshna Das, Harvard University
- Don Doherty, Brainstage
- Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics
- Andrew Gibson, University of Manchester
- Carole Goble, University of Manchester
- Yufeng Guo, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Amarnath Gupta, SDSC
- Volker Haarslev, Concordia University
- Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe
William Hayes, BiogenIdec
- Yusheng He, Peking University
- Ivan Herman, W3C
- Vipul Kashyap, Partners Healthcare
- Marijke Keet, Free University of Bolen-Bolzano
- Phil Lord, Newcastle University
- M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam
Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline
- Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas
- Mark Musen, Stanford University
- Fabian Neuhaus, NIST
- Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics
- Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic
Elgar Pichler, AstraZeneca
- Matthew Pocock, Newcastel University
- Daniel Rubin, Stanford University
- Matthias Samwald, DERI Galway
- Susanna Sansone, EBI
- Michael Schroeder, Dresden University
- Nigam Shah, Stanford University
- Amit Sheth, Wright State University
- Robert Stevens, University of Manchester
- Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe University
- Adam West, Eli Lilly
- Katy Wostencroft, University of Manchester
- Xuezhong Zhou, Nornern Jiaotong University
Organizing Committee
Huajun Chen, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University (huajunsir@zju.edu.cn)
Kei Cheung, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University (kei.cheung@yale.edu)
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada (michel_dumontier@carleton.ca)
Eric Prud’hommeaux, W3C (eric@w3.org)
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons (alanruttenberg@gmail.com)
Susie Stephens, Lilly (stephens_susie_m@lilly.com)
Yimin Wang, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (ywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)