Deadline Extension: Public Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

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W3C Public Workshop on Semantic Web and
Life Sciences Features OWL, RDF, and
LSID

W3C Public Workshop on Semantic Web and
Life Sciences Features OWL, RDF, and
LSID 08/07/2004 06:59 AM
XMLMania.com Aug 7 2004 9:40AM GMT

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Semantic Web for Life Sciences 07/29/2004 10:21 AM
2004-07-28: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences to be held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Attendees will discuss how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL and the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) help to manage modern life sciences research, enable disease understanding and accelerate the development of therapies. Read about W3C workshops and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life
Sciences: Summary

W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life
Sciences: Summary 12/19/2004 03:26 PM
2004-12-15: The summary and position papers have been published from the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. The workshop concluded that work is needed in core vocabularies and integration of life science identifiers (LSID) and Web resources, and that an implementers Interest Group will be beneficial. W3C thanks all 150 attendees for their valued participation. Read about workshops and Technology & Society at W3C. (News archive)

Deadline Extension: Public Workshop on
Metadata for Content Adaptation

Deadline Extension: Public Workshop on
Metadata for Content Adaptation 09/02/2004 01:47 PM
2004-09-02: The deadline for position papers has been extended one week to 13 September for the W3C Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the adaption of Web content to fit user needs and device characteristics, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read about workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive)

Deadline Extension: Workshop on
Constraints and Capabilities for Web
Services

Deadline Extension: Workshop on
Constraints and Capabilities for Web
Services 08/27/2004 01:37 PM
2004-08-23: The deadline for position papers has been extended one week to 3 September for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for describing Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future work. Read more about workshops and Web services. (News archive)

SVG Open 2004 Deadline Extension

SVG Open 2004 Deadline Extension 04/16/2004 11:32 AM
2004-04-16: SVG Open 2004, the 3rd annual conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 7-10 September 2004 at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The submission deadline for paper abstracts has been extended to 7 May. Proposals for courses or exhibitions may be submitted online. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG development experience, products, workflows and strategies. The conference language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage English-Japanese communication. Read about SVG. (News archive)

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues. 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
There is a growing user and business interest in being able to transport relevant information between sites. This obviously raises big security issues. The friend of a friend (FOAF)project is a practical experiment designed to identift and solve some of the problems arising from using semantic web technology. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Hub ranks top in life sciences

Hub ranks top in life sciences 06/08/2004 02:35 AM
Boston Globe Jun 8 2004 6:56AM GMT

IBM seeks business in life sciences

IBM seeks business in life sciences 12/23/2003 12:54 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 23 2003 11:23AM ET

As life sciences grow, so do the
challenges

As life sciences grow, so do the
challenges 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
Boston Globe Jun 28 2004 7:25AM GMT

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Oracle Makes a Play for Life Sciences

Oracle Makes a Play for Life Sciences 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The business software giant acquires SiteWorks Solutions to capitalize on drug companies that need to run clinical trials.

IBM looms large in life sciences quest

IBM looms large in life sciences quest 05/31/2004 06:45 AM
CNET May 31 2004 11:16AM GMT

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Boston Globe Jun 9 2004 8:26AM GMT

Nordson's Life Sciences launches new
portal

Nordson's Life Sciences launches new
portal 04/04/2005 06:46 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 4 2005 10:48AM GMT

UBI Adds Affordable Life Sciences
Products

UBI Adds Affordable Life Sciences
Products 12/19/2004 03:16 PM
reagents, consumables, and laboratory equipment provided [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Shreya Chooses Sygenics Life Sciences
Software

Shreya Chooses Sygenics Life Sciences
Software 06/17/2005 06:23 PM
Shreya Com, part of the Moscow-based Shreya Group, has chosen Sygenics Life Sciences Software solution to speed its drug discovery and to manage its biggest asset; its research. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005]

Study: Apple making its mark in life
sciences

Study: Apple making its mark in life
sciences 04/18/2005 03:12 PM
Research firm IDC found that scientists are moving to -- or considering -- the Macintosh platform because of Mac OS X and the G5 processor.

Bioniche Life Sciences narrows Q1 loss
to $2.1M from $2.7M year ago

Bioniche Life Sciences narrows Q1 loss
to $2.1M from $2.7M year ago 11/06/2003 03:01 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Nov 6 2003 1:42AM ET

Celgene Will Present at Lazard Life
Sciences Conference

Celgene Will Present at Lazard Life
Sciences Conference 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Nov 24 2004 9:50PM GMT

Inhibitex to Present at the Lazard Life
Sciences Conference

Inhibitex to Present at the Lazard Life
Sciences Conference 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Nov 19 2004 8:56PM GMT

IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
Tools

IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
Tools 05/06/2004 02:46 PM
Six new life sciences software packages are made publicly available by the tech giant to aid in biological research.

Entrez - The Life Sciences
Cross-Database Search Engine

Entrez - The Life Sciences
Cross-Database Search Engine 06/21/2004 05:55 AM
Entrez - The Life Sciences Cross-Database Search Engine
http://www.ncbi.n lm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Newsltr/FallWinter03/index.html
The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases; Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed®, PMC, Books, OMIM™, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. The cross database search option, labeled “Entrez” on the NCBI homepage search menu, replaces 'GenBank' as the default. This has been added to Biological Informatics, Deep Web Research and Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

News: Report: Apple making its mark in
Life Sciences

News: Report: Apple making its mark in
Life Sciences 04/18/2005 04:40 PM
Independent research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) recently finished work on a report commissioned by Apple that focused on the company's efforts in the scientific life sciences field. While the report was complimentary to many of Apple's accomplishments over the past few years it also pointed out some pitfalls the company would have to watch in the future. This, said an Apple executive, is just what Apple was looking for.

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Metadata for Content Adaptation

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Metadata for Content Adaptation 07/09/2004 12:10 PM
2004-07-08: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Metadata for Content Adaptation to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 12-13 October. Attendees will discuss how metadata can help the adaption of Web content to fit user needs and device characteristics, and will provide feedback and suggestions for future W3C work. Read about Workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive)

DataCore's FDA Module Selected by Large
Life Sciences Manufacturers; Momentum
Continues

DataCore's FDA Module Selected by Large
Life Sciences Manufacturers; Momentum
Continues 06/05/2005 11:58 PM
DataCore Technology announced the selection of its FDA Module for Cyco AutoManager� Meridian by a global, tier-one pharmaceutical company for use in their numerous facilities world wide. [PRWEB May 31, 2005]

How America built its high-tech economy.
Technology Transfer in the Life-Sciences

How America built its high-tech economy.
Technology Transfer in the Life-Sciences 02/16/2004 08:12 PM
BioPortfolio Feb 17 2004 0:04AM GMT

Alcor life extension site relaunch

Alcor life extension site relaunch 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: My friend, Charles Platt, told me to check out the relaunch of Alcor's site. Alcor, as you may know, is a life extension foundation. When an Alcor member dies, his or her body is stored in tanks of liquid nitrogen in the hopes that future technology will be able to revive them (the foundation currently has 67 patients in "cryostasis"). The big advance in cryopreservation is ice-free preservation (vitrification), which greatly reduces cellular damage that freezing causes.

Myth 2: Cryonics freezes people.

The current technology favored by Alcor is vitrification, not freezing. Vitrification is an ice-free process in which more than 60% of the water inside cells is replaced with protective chemicals. This completely prevents freezing during deep cooling. Instead of freezing, molecules just move slower and slower until all chemistry stops at the glass transition temperature (approximately -124°C). Unlike freezing, there is no ice formation or ice damage in vitrified tissue. Blood vessels have been reversibly vitrified, and whole kidneys have been recovered and successfully transplanted after cooling to -45°C while protected with vitrification chemicals.

Left: A rabbit kidney suspended in a transparent solution of vitrification chemicals, but without vitrification solution inside it, is frozen solid at a temperature of -140°C.

Right: Another kidney with vitrification solution inside it is preserved without freezing at the same temperature of -140°C.

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EchoStar - Viacom spat goes public;
deadline looms

EchoStar - Viacom spat goes public;
deadline looms 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
EchoStar/Viacom row goes public, both face a midnight deadline to keep satellite TV channels on the air.

Google Approaches the Theoretical April
30 Deadline for Public Disclosure

Google Approaches the Theoretical April
30 Deadline for Public Disclosure 04/19/2004 05:43 PM
"Privately held Google appears to have triggered a provision of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act that requires it to disclose closely guarded financial details by the end of the month. Companies must report financial results to the SEC once they have at least $10 million in assets and more than 500 shareholders of record, including employees who hold stock options....that the company has granted stock options to most of its more than 1,000 employees."

New Life Sciences-Information Technology
(LSIT) Global Institute to Establish
Universally Accepted IT Systems to Speed
Medical Products to Patients Worldwide

New Life Sciences-Information Technology
(LSIT) Global Institute to Establish
Universally Accepted IT Systems to Speed
Medical Products to Patients Worldwide 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
[PRWEB May 13, 2004]

Barrier Therapeutics to Present at
Pacific Growth Equities 2005 Life
Sciences Growth Conference

Barrier Therapeutics to Present at
Pacific Growth Equities 2005 Life
Sciences Growth Conference 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
Market Wire May 31 2005 2:39PM GMT

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web 12/28/2004 06:58 AM
Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web
http://kmi.open .ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html

Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme 05/08/2004 06:20 AM
Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme by Steve Cayzer
http://snipurl.com/66yj

Steve is a research engineer at Hewlett-Packard's (HP) laboratories in Bristol, England. He is interested in the intersection of semantic web technologies and machine learning techniques, such as automated classification and metadata enrichment. He also has a semantic blog. This paper is about semantic blogging, an application of the semantic web to blogging. The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections. Our vision is to use semantic web tools and ideas to help move blogging beyond communal diary browsing to rich information sharing scenarios. We have built a simple prototype as an illustration of this vision. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

"William F. Buckley's departure from
public life"

"William F. Buckley's departure from
public life" 06/29/2004 02:13 PM

Napster Receives New Life As Public Firm
(AP)

Napster Receives New Life As Public Firm
(AP) 09/17/2004 02:07 PM
AP - Call it the kitty's third life. Roxio Inc. bought the Napster brand name and feline logo at a bankruptcy auction two years ago and with the acquisition of another music service, pressplay, relaunched the once-renegade file-swapping pioneer as a legal music service last October.

Napster Receives New Life As Public Firm

Napster Receives New Life As Public Firm 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 17 2004 6:19PM GMT

William F. Buckley's departure from
public life

William F. Buckley's departure from
public life 06/29/2004 10:57 AM
handed over his shares in National Review .. New York Times

nytimes.com/2004/06/29/politics/29buckley.html
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Private Life, Public Happiness and the
Howard Dean Connection

Private Life, Public Happiness and the
Howard Dean Connection 01/07/2004 03:12 PM
With Dean, the campaign is somewhere... out there. It is not at headquarters any more, but it talks to headquarters. This is a de-stabilizing premise, and a reporting nightmare. But Samantha Shapiro in the Times magazine this week had a notion.
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