Overview
Covers topics ranging from database, ontology, visualization, to semantic web services and workflows
Features the intersection of Semantic Web and Life Sciences
Gives examples/scenarios illustrating different Semantic Web applications in the life science domain
Discusses the limitations and obstacles that need to be overcome for Semantic Web to better meet the current and future needs of life science researchers
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction
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Database and Literature Integration
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Ontologies in the Life Sciences
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Ontology Visualization
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Ontologies in Action
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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™ 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantic Web
Book Subtitle: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences
Editors: Christopher J. O. Baker, Kei-Hoi Cheung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48438-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-48436-5Published: 04 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4303-3Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-48438-9Published: 14 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 446
Topics: Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Health Informatics, Philosophy of Biology