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The Semantic Web and BioMarkers
Benjamin Good
Wilkinson Laboratory
iCAPTURE
http://bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca/bgood
Outline
• Define Semantic Web
• Discuss Applications in Progress– Ahab– iCAPTURer
• Discuss needs from BBM team
The Semantic Web
“The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.”
Tim Berners-Lee
Meaning Through Ontology
Animal
Mammal
Primate
Lemur HumanGorilla
Hair
Big MediumSmall
has
has_size
is_a
Hair
Hair
HairHair
Meaning Through Ontology
Web Services
Bioinformatics programs
Sequence Processing
Sequence Alignment
http://bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca/bla123.cgi
DNA-Protein DNA-DNA
BLAST-X
Meaning Through Ontology
BiologicalProcess
Response to stimulus
Defense response
Immune response
Interleukin-10
Cellular component
Membrane
Plasma membrane
On a Semantic Web
• It is easier to find things.
• It is easier to identify similarity.
• It is easier to integrate information.
UCSC
FlyBase
Genbank
Gene Ontology
Gene Ontology (http://geneontology.org)
• (SW!) Applications listed
– 6 adding annotations– 9 miscellaneous – 14 searching and browsing– 36 for microarray analysis!
• Mostly for “summarizing the predominant biological theme of a given gene list”.
• Validation• Hypothesis generation
My Current Projects
• Ahab - A Semantic Web Browser
• iCAPTURer - an experimental system for collective ontology creation.
iCAPTURer• A website that asks
volunteers the questions needed to build an ontology.
• Deployed with some success at the Young Investigators Forum for Research in Circulatory and Respiratory Health
My Needs
• More interaction with the scientists.– Motivate, clarify, and ultimately
enable my research.
• Participation from team members in future knowledge capture experiments.
• If possible, data and algorithms provided as BioMoby web services…