Semantic Search in the Life Science in the Era of Open Access

Datum

06.02.2015

Zeit

16:00 - 17:00

Sprecher

George Tsatsaronis, Bioinformatics Group BIOTEC, Transinsight GmbH

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Biologie

Andere Themen

Biologie, Medizin

Beschreibung

Researchers in the life sciences are struggling to keep up-to-date with the avalanche of the publicly available information. Scientific literature and biomedical resources such as domain ontologies and databases are growing extremely fast in numbers and volume. The indexed scientific literature in PubMed contains more than 24,000,000 articles. In parallel, the latest release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a major knowledge source in the life sciences, integrates information from 173 distinct biomedical resources and contains more than 3,000,000 concepts and 11,000,000 associated concept names. Given the plethora of the publicly available and highly heterogeneous resources (literature, databases, ontologies, microarray experiments, assays, biological networks) the modern biomedical knowledge worker needs efficient tools and engines to harness this information. Semantic search and related semantic-enabled technologies are the key to draw semantic bridges across the resources and integrate the information, providing powerful tools to the researchers. The presentation will focus on two SoA semantic search engines in the life sciences, GoPubMed and OpenScienceLink, explaining how the underlying technologies can cope with the heterogeneity and volume of the data, and provide novel tools and services to scientists working in the life sciences.

Links

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Letztmalig verändert: 06.02.2015, 08:36:05