6 Mar
2007
6 Mar
'07
4:13 p.m.
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Jill P. Mesirov, Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer,
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Seminar Title: Computational Paradigms for Genomic Medicine
Abstract
The completion of the human genome sequencing project, coupled with
the ever increasing scale and throughput of biological
experimentation, has the potential to greatly accelerate progress in
biomedicine. Discoveries in this new realm of "high-dimensional
biology" are dependent both upon sophisticated computation and the
ability to unify the analytical approaches of a variety of
disciplines. However, the lack of an integrated computational
environment that can provide both easy access to a set of universal
analytic tools, and support the development and dissemination of
novel algorithmic approaches, has resulted in the pace of data
acquisition greatly outstripping that of meaningful data analysis.
We will describe some of the challenging computational problems in
biomedicine, the techniques we use to address them, and a software
infrastructure to support this highly interdisciplinary field of
research.
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27 Apr
27 Apr
4:42 p.m.
New subject: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - Mark Musen
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 2, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Mark Musen, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and
Computer Science, Stanford University
Seminar Title: The Craze over Bio-Ontologies
Abstract
In the past decade, there has been an explosion in the use of formal
ontologies to enumerate and categorize the entities in scientific
disciplines. This trend is particularly palpable in biology, where an
avalanche of available data requires new technologies for search,
integration, and analysis. Work in biomedical ontology has largely
been stimulated from the ground up, where the pressing needs of small
groups of scientists have spawned a large cottage industry of
pragmatic ontology developers. The National Center for Biomedical
Ontology, one of the seven national centers for biomedical computing
recently created under the NIH Roadmap, has been created to help move
this cottage industry into the industrial age. In this talk, I will
discuss the rise of ontologies in biology in the context of e-
science, the challenges of organizing the cottage industry into a
coherent work force, and some of the opportunities afforded by the
representation and dissemination of scientific knowledge in machine-
processable form.
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