Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

FULL AGENDA

Updated March 04, 2014


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WEDNESDAY, February 26
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TIME EVENT LOCATION
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Registration Carver Foyer
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tutorial:
Enterprise and Scientific Data Sharing using Callimachus
Presenter: Dr. David Wood,
3 Round Stones Inc.

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Carver 1
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Break Carver Foyer
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tutorial continues Carver 1
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration Carver Foyer
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Poster (Author) Set-up Carver 2 & 3
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Poster Reception Carver 2 & 3

THURSDAY, February 27
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TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration Carver Foyer
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast (continental) Carver 2 & 3
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome & Overview
- Bonnie Berger
ISCB Board Member
- Jonas Almeida
Conference Chair
- Ted Slater
Conference Chair
Carver 1
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation
RON COLLETTE

The Carpenter to the Screw: Well, I Have a Hammer.
You Must Be a Nail
Carver 1
10:05 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. Health Analytics
Lattices for Representing and Analyzing Organogenesis
Presenters: Chimezie Ogbuji, Metacognition LLC, United States
Rong Xu, Case Western University, United States

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Carver 1
A Semantic-driven Surveillance Model to Enhance Population Health Decision-making
Presenters: Anya Okhmatovskaia, Arash Shaban-Nejad, and David L. Buckeridge (28)

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Carver 1
10:55 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Break Carver 2 & 3
11:15 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. Tech Talk 1
High Availability and Graph Mining using bigdata® - an Open-Source Graph Database
Presenter: Bryan Thompson, SYSTAP LLC

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Carver 1
11:40 p.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tech Talk 2
Successfully Navigating Diagnosis And Treatment In The Age Of Targeted Cancer Therapy
Presenter: Helena Deus, Foundation Medicine
Carver 1
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Carver 2 & 3
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Keynote Presentation
DEBORAH MCGUINNESS

Towards Semantic Health Assistants

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Carver 1
2:05 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. Interoperability in Healthcare
Towards Semantic Interoperability of the CDISC Foundational Standards
Presenters: Scott Bahlavooni, Geoff Low and Frederik Malfait

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Carver 1
Therapeutic Areas Ontology for Study Data
Presenters: Eric Prud'Hommeaux, Charles Mead and Sajjad Hussain (22)
Carver 1
2:55 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Break Carver 2 & 3
3:20 p.m. - 4:35 p.m Linked Data
The RDF Platform of the European Bioinformatics Institute
Presenters: Andrew M. Jenkinson, Simon Jupp, Jerven Bolleman, Marco Brandizi, Mark Davies, Leyla Garcia, Anna Gaulton, Sebastien Gehant, Camille Laibe, James Malone, Nicole Redaschi, Sarala M. Wimalaratne, Maria Martin, Helen Parkinson and Ewan Birney (11)

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Carver 1
PubChemRDF: Towards a semantic description of PubChem
Presenters: Gang Fu, Bo Yu,
Evan Bolton
Carver 1
Evolving from Data-analytics to Data-applications: How Modular Software Environments Built on Semantic Linked-Data Enable a New Generation of Collaborative Life-Science Applications
Presenters: David King and Robert McBurney (20)
Carver 1
4:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Daily Closing Remarks
Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
Carver 1
FRIDAY, February 28
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TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration Carver Foyer
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast (continental) Carver 2 & 3
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Review - Previous Day
Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
Carver 1
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation
HILMAR LAPP

Semantics of and for the Diversity of Life: Opportunities and Perils of Trying to Reason on the Frontier

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Carver 1
10:05 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. Semantics in Pharma
The Open PHACTS Project:Progress and Future Sustainability
Presenters: Tom Plasterer, Lee Harland and Bryn Williams-Jones (7)

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Carver 1
Safety Information Evaluation and Visual Exploration
(“SIEVE”)
Presenters: Suzanne Tracy, Stephen Furlong, Robert Stanley, Peter Bogetti, Jason Eshleman and Michael Goodman (16)


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Carver 1
10:55 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Break Carver 2 & 3
11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Tech Talk 3
Making Sense of Big Data in Pharma
Presenter: Andreas Matern
Thomson Reuters Life Sciences
 
11:45 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Tech Talk 4
Using Supercomputer Architecture for Practical Semantic Web Research in the Life Sciences
Presenter: Matt Gianni, YarcData
 
12:05 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Carver 2 & 3
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Keynote Presentation
BAREND MONS

Semantics Based Biomedical Knowledge Search, Integration and Discovery
Carver 1
2:05 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. Discovery Infrastructure
Scalable Ontological Query Processing over Semantically Integrated Life Science Datasets using MapReduce
Presenters: Hyeongsik Kim and Kemafor Anyanwu (18)

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Carver 1
Multi-Domain Collaboration for Web-Based Literature Browsing and Curation
Presenters: David H. Mason, Marie-Jean Meurs, Erin McDonnell, Ingo Morgenstern, Carol Nyaga, Vahé Chahinian, Greg Butler, Adrian Tsang (9)
 
2:55 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Break Carver 2 & 3
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Improving Scientific Information Sharing by Fostering Reuse of Presentation Material
Presenters: Bernadette Hyland, David Wood, Luke Ruth, James Leigh (6)

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Carver 1
***AWARDED BEST PAPER***

GenomeSnip: Fragmenting the Genomic Wheel to Augment Discovery in Cancer Research

Presenters: Maulik R. Kamdar, Aftab Iqbal, Muhammad Saleem, Helena F. Deus and Stefan Decker

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Carver 1
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Future Actions and Conference Closing Remarks
Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
Carver 1
4:15 p.m. Conference Ends Carver 1

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