REMINDER: NCBO Seminar Series - Bjoern Peters, Sept 16

[Trish Whetzel]

The next NCBO Seminar Series will be held TOMORROW Wednesday, September 16, at 10am PT. Please note there will not be a VOIP option, and attendees must call into the teleconference.

Below is information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying teleconference. The seminar will be presented by Bjoern Peters, Assistant Member at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. The title of the presentation will be "Representing the Immune Epitope Database in OWL".

For this talk, please send any questions to Trish Whetzel, at whe...@stanford.edu. For a schedule of 2009 presentations or for more information about the NCBO Seminar Series, see: http://www.bioontology.org/seminar-series.


Title: Representing the Immune Epitope Database in OWL

Abstract: Vast amounts of biomedical information are stored in relational databases. Several of these use ontologies to better communicate the meaning and context of their data. However, most often ontology terms are only used to represent in a limited number of fields in a database. An ontology, in this context, essentially functions as a controlled vocabulary and few formal relations are used between database fields. We argue that a full representation of biomedical database content using a principled approach to ontology, encoded using a formal language such as OWL provides significant benefits. These include data consistency checks, the ability to formulate highly expressive queries, and the potential for seamless interoperability with other data resources. We report on our efforts to make such a representation available for the Immune Epitope Database.


Topic: NCBO Seminar Series
Date: The 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
Meeting Number: 926 719 478
Meeting Password: ncbomeeting

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